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I think spin and wording was never less powerful. Today it takes networks of tv-stations to influence a public opinion and even then those influencers are hardl

I think spin and wording was never less powerful. Today it takes networks of tv-stations to influence a public opinion and even then those influencers are hardly omnipotent. Opinions can still change within a day. Also never before where there more people who were at least fundamentally capable of understanding politics. I often hear people say that the past was more democratic. Was it really? Or is it just that the constraints of reality are only revealed gradually over time to the individual, as his understanding increases and his age progresses. Then the past was always easier and less complicated?

6d0debc071 13y ago
> I often hear people say that the past was more democratic. Was it really? If the usefulness of single point of voting democracy is inversely related to the complexity of the problem space, then societies with fewer known concerns would - all else being equal - have been more democratic. Not saying that's what things were like, mind, but it's one of the things that might give that impression.