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I do think this is an interesting perspective even though I disagree that monarchies result in more long-term thinking. You do raise the issue of how to struct
by rendall 3y ago
I do think this is an interesting perspective even though I disagree that monarchies result in more long-term thinking.
You do raise the issue of how to structure government to encourage more long-term, or rational, planning. I don't think that short-term thinking is inherent to democracy any more than a two-party duopoly is inherent to democracy. As with the US and UK duopoly, short-term, self-interested government policies may be due to election incentives or the frameworks in which elections take place.
- infamouscow 3y agoShort term thinking is inherent to democracy. This isn't contested in political philosophy circles, just amongst people with a romanticized understanding of a very specific form of representative democracy they happen to live within. For example, short term interests have preempted long-term interests with regards to climate change. But, even if the government passed a law on climate change, at what point in the future should the law be ignored or changed. Is it one year, ten years, or one hundred years? Further, what about all of the laws from the past you've dismissed as antiquated or arcane? It's intellectually dishonest to argue those laws weren't passed without any long-term thinking just because they don't comport with society now.
- rendall 3y ago> This isn't contested in political philosophy circles. *[citation needed]