i think it would be neat to be ruled over by a council of benevolent scientists, or perhaps a philosopher king. democracy just seems like a bad idea and it hasn’t been working very well. if it’s a popularity contest then we just get charismatic populists and demagogues.
the only way i think democracy would work is if we give animals the right to vote. I think with some technology we could figure out how to teach dogs and horses and dolphins to vote, that would be a good start. then maybe have like a council of tree experts and plant enthusiasts to represent the interests of plants in all votes.
I don’t like the western demoncracy. The system seems to reflect the population very well though. Major
when I interact with people. A German told me he’s worried if Trump wins US won’t be the police of the world.
Bourgeois domination of media, education, and elections sets up a feedback loop, cultivating a more and more reactionary ‘public opinion’. It can be undone just as it was done, but it might also involve personally roughing up each core resident while ordering them to put on the glasses for ten minutes like in They Live
An army of large burly communist wrestlers beating up random californians to make them put on the dialectical materialism glasses in an alley in fresno.
You should post this as a review on IMDB. 10/10
In fairness, a fundamental part of western democracy is the close marrying of politicians, rich people and media outlets from which most the population gets all their facts. A fact that Lenin himself sadly remarked on over a century ago.