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I'm surprised by how many ppl have told me they don't think there exist any "unpopular but correct" ideas. Past generations were wrong about lots of things in science, ethics, etc; what's the chance we just happen to be the first ones to have figured *everything* out correctly?
Faith in democracy seems to depend on most unpopular ideas being incorrect. So any observation that there are many unpopular but correct ideas sounds anti-democratic and elitist.
There is a difference between saying "unpopular ideas are probably wrong" and "you argued for/discussed an unpopular idea, so you should be shamed/fired/etc.". Of course contrarians tend to be wrong, but we should be glad to have them.
And there is a third category of situation: "You pretended to just be arguing for unpopular ideas, but were actually just harassing people and being a complete ass and subjecting us to legal liability so we fired you". That isn't the same.
Nice one, made me think.
One of a democratic representative's jobs is to convince the people that a particular idea (popular or not) is correct (thereby gaining their votes). More important is that a politician with untrue but popular ideas will eventually be unmasked, due to repeated failures of action.
The power of democracy seems to be in the people's ability to become fed up with a politician that doesn't deliver, cease to vote for them, and thereby allow them to be removed and replaced by someone with different (hopefully superior, if previously unpopular, ideas).
The culture of a society summarizes in its elite. And the problem 1/2
is not how the society will take its ideas, but how the elite will insert itself in the society. 2/2
Aristotle thought democracy plus reason is republicanism. The opposite to democracy is not necessarily elitism.
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