> The Internet itself is decentralized, which made it extremely resilient. So is democracy. extremely? i wouldn't bet on that. how do you even measure that? b

> The Internet itself is decentralized, which made it extremely resilient. So is democracy. extremely? i wouldn't bet on that. how do you even measure that? books have been around for over a millenium, that's quite resilient. the internet is barely 50 years old. empires have lasted for thousands of years, modern democracies are a bit over a couple of centuries ... young. how do you determine their resilience? i see quite concerning signs of degradation lately, and they might have something to do with that iron law of oligarchy. > The article cites a few notable counterexamples like Wikipedia. no, it doesn't? it has a section titled "examples and exceptions", but it doesn't include any real exception (that has been resilient to this day), let alone a 'counterexample'. > Your post looks like learned helplessness. yours looks like wishful thinking (and difficulty in parsing the wikipedia)