musings about 'democracy'
More and more, I'm feeling like there's a suspicious lack of evidence that policies such as "majority voting" and "electing people" are actually reasonable or rational ways to arrive at the claimed goals of democracy, at all.
Like, I have always had my issues with the failures of these systems, personally, but I would at least entertain the possibility of there being a hypothetical Good Implementation that could work.
I don't think I believe that anymore, and over the years I have seen basically nothing to convince me otherwise.
And to go even further, I am starting to believe that the only possible long-term outcome of both of these systems is authoritarianism, and no sustainable mitigations to this exist.
musings about 'democracy' (2)
And to clarify, this is about the *institution* of democracy, and how a society should be organized to achieve its goals, the idea that people have of how a "democracy" is actually achieved.
It's not about one's personal choice to vote, which is a completely separate consideration - the system is as the system is today.
