Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories:
Fish don’t realize they’re swimming in water.
We don’t realize what alternatives to democracy will emerge because we’re submerged in the current system.
Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried.—Winston Churchill
When you look at ideas to improve democracy, you find things like alternative ways to vote for your leaders or delegating your vote altogether. These are nice ideas, and can change the party in government like they recently did in Australia. But they’re superficial. The Internet is a bulldozer. It will uproot democracy and grow something new from scratch. To understand what will blossom in its place, we need to reprogram our brain first1. We’re too used to the current system to realize there are alternatives.
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