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I was thinking about this recently. I’m not qualified in politics, and I’m aware that my knowledge is too limited to be properly aware of how limited it is, but the thought was:

Democracy isn’t so much the best form of government as the best steering wheel to keep the government aligned with the interests of the people. The best actual form of government is technocracy, but technocracy with no democratic accountability is just going to competently achieve things that the people may not care about or may actively dislike.



> The best actual form of government is technocracy

In a fantasy world where we actually had sciences for all the things governments are asked to do, sure.

But in the actual world we live in, no way. You can't have experts running government if there are no actual experts.


or worse - experts that have an inbuilt bias (which they might not even know they have!). For example, economic experts.


This is the intent behind a representative democracy. An enlightened elite, informed but not bound by the needs of the common man.


I am "qualified in politics"...I can tell you that people who are "qualified" think no less bizarre things than people who are not (they are just of a different type).

Stating that there is some kind of qualification suggests, ironically, that you don't understand what politics is. The point is that there is tension, uncertainty (this is a bit like modern views on capitalism...can we have the money but no failure, pls...lul).




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