Still too busy to post. So have some Moldbug.
Key passage:
Alexander sees that his government has made a bad, stupid, irrational and really downright evil decision. But he does not go out and try to convince his readers (all 10,000 of them, perhaps) to vote differently. In his actions, he reveals that he’s perfectly aware that this highly touted failsafe mechanism against bad government, always and everywhere, does not in fact exist.
If there is one thing above all that you need to understand if you are going to understand the modern world, it is that thing, right there. There are others, but this is the entry point.
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For those who want to home in more precisely on the exact Moldbug post from which the above blockquote came: the original piece is here.
Kevin, thanks. I must admit I was having a devil of a time with it.
Oh dear. Do forgive me, readers, for that erroneous link – and thank you, Kevin, for providing the correct one.
I’ve now fixed the link in the post.
Thank you also, Kevin, for “home in”, rather than the all-but-ubiquitous “hone in” — a major peeve of mine.
(I would expect no less from you, of course.)
Valar dohaeris, Malcolm.
I thank you for your service.
Meanwhile, with a hat tip to our reader Bill, here’s a related item from Belmont Club.
Nota bene: the “Curley Effect”.