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H.L. Mencken wrote it down well before Orwell. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by
by AceyMan 2y ago
H.L. Mencken wrote it down well before Orwell.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- ncr100 2y agoAmazing that while these insightful critiques about government and democracy appear to stand, Democracy also still appears to be nearly the best system that we've enacted to govern large bodies of people. We suffer with inefficiency, majority tyranny, populism, short-term-itis, inequalities, and voter apathy which promotes less qualified people. At least we usually have peaceful conflict resolution rather than firing squads. <3