A recent realization: Freedom is a more refined political good than democracy. Don’t get me wrong, democracy is great. But any mob can make a habit of polling itself for consensus. Freedom is the more precious and fragile achievement.
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Have you not read David Deutsch?
I have. Does he talk about this? My realizations tend to and go in waves :P
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This reminds me of the discussion in “Choices” from BoI. Democracy is an answer to “who should rule?” But that isn’t the right question generally. The right question is how to detect and correct bad policies. Freedom is especially socially necessary for that process.
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