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The only way to have a better democracy is to have better people. Education is the entire slow, painful game.
by mapontosevenths 19d ago
The only way to have a better democracy is to have better people.
Education is the entire slow, painful game.
- OroPla 19d agoAlternative take: education makes you a lot more efficient at exploiting people. It is not education that is at the root of these things, but incentives. If the incentives are all wrong, so will be the outcomes. Take education as an institution. The way it is set up incentivizes cheating, and so nearly everyone tries to cheat.
- krapp 19d agoEducation makes you more efficient at exploiting people, but it also makes you more efficient at detecting and resisting the exploits. While no one is immune to it because the most effective kinds of exploitation are emotional rather than rational (see both religion and populism,) a solid educational foundation by the public makes it more difficult for the elites - who will by definition always be educated - to manipulate the public. I feel like you're just arguing around education being an issue. When people cheat at their education, the outcome is they aren't educated. They can't practice critical thinking without a framework for understanding the world and so all they have is unfocused cynicism, which social media is designed to readily exploit.
- Zigurd 19d agoThere are some obvious improvements that can be made to the US system of democracy: Ban large donations, or publicly fund candidacies the demonstrate they have a competitive chance. Ranked choice voting. Make voting day a holiday. Promote voting. Etc. None of these are painful, nor do they need to be slow.