People have been fooled into thinking that modern "democratic" policy is optimized for popularity. It's not - it's optimized for popularity within a window. Outside that window is the really popular stuff - war, nationalism. Only elite cohesion keeps that out of bounds.https://twitter.com/acczibit/status/1247186144258818048 …
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The west has an evolved system that excludes certain perspectives entirely in favor of those that are appealing to an elite whose membership is gated on cowardice and obsequiousness (with a floor on intellect required).
4:15 AM - 7 Apr 2020
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