Modernity without liberty?

This is more or less the truth. Democracy isn't the best way to govern a body of people, Aristocracy-Meritocracy which a group of Elites (analogous to Educated Nobles in Greek Philosophy instead of overpompous feuding nobles of medieval europe) are the one who has the rein of real power, is the best way in the long run to go, even in the future.

And the closest thing we had in Educated Aristocracy and Philosopher-King is at early Islamic Caliphates, which friends and disciples of the Prophet (PBUH) basically hold the reins and spread the glory of Islam. Things only going south when they try to completely centralize their rule and nobles start feuding with another nobles.

I rather prefer Churchill's comments on the subject:

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

The essential problem with this 'Philospher-King' idea is that it exasperates one of the big issues at the moment in the West- the feeling that ordinary people don't matter and have no reason to feel invested in the society.
 
I rather prefer Churchill's comments on the subject:

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Yip, it is slow, especially to reforms and changes to the status quo(like civil rights) and does allow a certain amount of corruption. But it does make complete tyranny rather difficult due to that inefficiency.

That said over time tyranny can build up due to certain pressures. And the only way to stop those trends building up over time is for people to vote for change, which they don't. Which causes people to think that democracy doesn't work.
 
Why couldn't democracies devolve into oligarchies (as Athens did and as can be said of USA at times) or into totalitarianism (as the Fascist states did). Communism is a special case as it was based upon a self selecting "electorate" from the start - I'm not aware of a democracy of its own free will choosing a communist system (as opposed to voting a communist party as the largest bloc.)
 
This is more or less the truth. Democracy isn't the best way to govern a body of people, Aristocracy-Meritocracy which a group of Elites (analogous to Educated Nobles in Greek Philosophy instead of overpompous feuding nobles of medieval europe) are the one who has the rein of real power, is the best way in the long run to go, even in the future.

Bahahahahahahahaha.
 
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