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1. Yarvin's system may work well if you put perfect people in place, and keep perfect people in place. Well, that's true of a lot of systems. Yarvin finds fl
by AnimalMuppet 1y ago
1. Yarvin's system may work well if you put perfect people in place, and keep perfect people in place. Well, that's true of a lot of systems. Yarvin finds flaws in democracy with imperfect people, but his system needs perfect people in order to work. That's... not an improvement.
2. Even if you have these perfect people, they're going to be rare. Who's going to put them in power? The mass of non-perfect people? Why are they going to do that?
3. Yarvin fails his own test. He's looking for people whose blogs create no negative reactions? Yarvin stands self-condemned; he's not worthy to say how things should be run.
- cowboylowrez 1y agothe courts, legislature and executive could be a nice check on the imperfections of our elected officials, but unfortunately, they don't provide any check on the voters which is obviously unavoidable in any sort of elected democracy. In the US for instance, a full one third of the population are on board with crime sprees, and one third is enough when voter participation gets low.