DEMOKRATI?
“People will tell you that democracy requires a well informed citizenry. But this presumes people have access to some set of relevant facts … and then make up their minds intelligently, applying the known facts to the public policy alternatives.
It is nonsense for two fundamental reasons. First, there are no facts in public life, just memes and BS. Second, even if there were meaningful facts, the individual citizen is hardly equipped to evalutate them.
After so many millennia with no public life of any sort, we don´t know how to judge or master it. Candidate X tells us he is in favour of cutting government spending. Candidate Y tells us he intends to make the government more efficient. Candidate Z tells us we will all be better off, if the government spends more money to stimulate the economy.
These are all “facts” – reported in the news media and widely debated. But is there any way for the poor voter to know what the politicians really believe… or which public policy is likely to produce the best result? Nope!”
“Nowadays a young man can graduate from a leading university with a head full of public facts… and know nothing at all.”
Ride on,
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