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this happens for ideas as well. everyone THINKS they are top 1% unique and high quality https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005VS9WO6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_KGGTYT72AM9VR2GY7JSQ?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 …

so when democratic processes get together to complain about the status quo... what they’re really complaining about is that the centralized authority is not doing a good enough job

but the person who was elected there GOT there by catering to the will of the people. thus they do NOT actually think of new measures but does what has the least backlash by the ignorant mob. usually feel good wastes of money

this means that democratic processes elect a mirror of themselves which reflects back to them their ugliness which they dislike which then is replaced by a NEW mirror hoping this one reflects the beauty they believe themselves to be

this is a system failure of recursion. the same thing is being reflected back and forth stuck in a loop

and what is being reflected back and forth is similar to what becomes the first result returned by google. it’s mostly a black box algorithm maximizing a measure

so the democratic process just reflects a legible viral hyper rational idea back and forth. EXACTLY the failure point of authoritarian high modernism

regular authoritarianism on the other hand has hooman volatility that prevents it from becoming “totalizing” the same way a recursive function crashes a computer. hoomans have inbuilt halting mechanisms

there’s also an argument that rising out on top of the authoritarian power struggle means that the person in charge is someone who KNOWS how to play the game.

new authoritarian figures also not only play the game of thrones well, but have done so in a world with globalized knowledge (vs previous cults of personality where the leader may have been charismatic but dumb at everything else)

this is the steve jobs as anti-authoritarian authoritarian argument. and while it does create wholes that are greater than sums, it’s the same brittleness as philosopher kings