Comment on Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days agoYeah, this is me defining words, and not established definitions that have literally been in use for hundreds of years 🙄
Comment on Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days agoYeah, this is me defining words, and not established definitions that have literally been in use for hundreds of years 🙄
sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 days ago
So yeah, you are right. A representative “democracy” is not a democracy. It’s a monarchy with more than one ruler.
A gummy bear is as much a bear as representative democracy is a democracy.
I didn’t know that, because i was taught in school that a representative “democracy” is a form of democracy. And the name makes it sound like one. But it isn’t. It’s not even supposed to be in theory. I am sure 99% of people living in a representative “democracy” don’t know this.
I hereby encourage everyone to abandon the word representative “democracy” in favor of polyarchy or maybe oligarchy. This makes it much clearer what we are talking about.
Also i doubt the authors of this article know this, because they imply that representative “democracy” is desirable, but it is obviously undesirable.