Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains
Some cynics (Moldbug?) will say that it has always been like that: the essence of the political is captured in the Golden Rule: Those with the gold, rule. If that is so, let the battle proceed. I am glad we have Trump and Musk on our side.
You don't defeat transgender Unsinn with calm arguments and appeals to reason, but by Musk-et.
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I bet Moldbug has read this: Christophe Buffin de Chosal, The End of Democracy, 2017.
“The money powers have the money, in other words the most powerful and universal means in this world of manipulating people. They can corrupt politicians and finance electoral campaigns. It is they who hold the levers of democracy.”
“The reality is that democracy was invented for the purpose of bringing an oligarchy into power and keeping it there.”
“The democratic ruler is not the owner of the power; he is only its temporary holder. He therefore does not have the natural inclination to maintain the value of the assets of the country he governs as would a hereditary monarch.”
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