Gen X is last generation to have a widespread interest in democracy as a truly interesting idea capable of opening up new human conditions less expressive political systems cannot get to. Millennials believe/disbelieve in it as a matter of values. Z’s seem to have given up on it
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I genuinely consider democracy, broadly construed, to be a strictly more expressive class of mechanisms than any other. It is like Peano arithmetic relative to say propositional logic or first order calculus. It can run programs other systems can’t.
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Disbelief in democracy is fundamentally a failure of imagination.
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The electoral power (democracy) followed parliamentary power which followed kingship. It's just a system that ran its course like any other. It ain't an eternal arrangement. Failure of imagination would be to avoid understanding its successor
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I’ll certainly entertain the ideas fir such systems as and when they emerge. None has as yet.
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