Somewhere between Greece and Andrew Jackson, the democracy morphed from being a way to cut off interminable debate among unique/incommensurable humans (demos as a ‘people’), to being a way to ‘measure’ opinion and sentiment among manufactured-fungible congealed-mass humans.
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We take idea of a ‘majority’ as self-evidently well-posed. After all, in a crowd, some view must be more popular than others and must be > 50% sometimes.
Not true. The idea of a ‘mass human’, whose main property is countability, had to be invented and imposed on humans first

