A system of governance is not a moral institution or a source of meaning and self worth, but a platform for negotiating the conditions of human survival. In this sense, the current mode of liberal democracy probably offers more options than anything else in human history.
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The great thing about liberal democracy is that you can question all of the offered cultural narratives if they don't work for you, and suggest new ones, and nobody burns you at the stake. That is pretty neat, no?
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No, it is not a guise. Everybody can get political power and participate in top level decisions by becoming an oligarch, and no tyrant or monarch or existing oligarch can murder you for getting and using power without having to answer to the law. About as democratic as it gets.
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What people do you think will take the power? A new Stalin, a friendly Politbureau, a God appointed caliphate? You seem to be driven by the intuition that by dismantling structures you perceive as unjust, the world would return to its rightful, just state. Which one is it?
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you haven't presented a single alternate way for organizing society. what do you propose? you just want to jump off the roof, and hopefully another building will magically appear beneath us before we fall?
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This may be why the right seems to have so much more historical success: it does not assume that everybody else will magically play by the rules of some high floating theory that the present audience is just too ignorant to grasp. Everybody always plays by their own rules.
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