@ChrisMayLA6 democracy? Or are their effects neutral, or could it be argued that with all the surveillance technology, nudging and marketing, that our modern knowledge actually serves to dismantle democracy and turning it into some kind of modern aristocracy?
What do you think?
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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that it is natural or organic.
Democracy needs to be built & then maintained, but when those in power do not want to maintain it (or maintain parts of it) then the technologies you mention (& others) can be used against it.
If we wanted to protect democracy we could use the same tools to do so.
So, for me its the other way round; how is a modern aristocracy has been able to (re)gain control of the levers that democracy had shifted to others (or perhaps they never really did let go)
@ChrisMayLA6 This sounds like the theme for another book! ;)
Do you think there was a high point of democracy?
I imagine that when monarchies fell, citizens and the public had a new "toy" and a new world, and I imagine that idealists then remembered only too well the evils of monarchy and royal secret services and what they did, to prefer democracy and someone else in the lead, over their own personal power.
But it seems to me, that the democratic spirit has faded over the past two
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