It's almost as if a democracy dominated by 2 & 4 year election cycles and 24 hour news cycles shapes its leaders and citizens not to focus on the long-term future.https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1017353611272163329 …
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PS. This is worth reading, even if you end up totally disagreeing with it.https://www.amazon.com/Against-Democracy-Jason-Brennan/dp/0691162603 …
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Perhaps this priveledge could be abused. I think I could get behind that thesis! I'd trust a professor over a politician
too many politicians exploit ignorance & enact bad policies for personal accolades.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I've literally been arguing this for decades. Except for the part about installing new rulers.
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Instead of Democracy just have a radical libertarian society where the really cunning figure out how to indenture everyone with crippling debt and contrived scarcity.
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