There Is No Superfood for Governance

<p>Plato hated democracy. He&rsquo;d have a lot of friends today.</p> <p>But Plato&rsquo;s hatred for democracy was for a very different reason than that of today&rsquo;s critics, many of them fans of authoritarian strong men.</p> <p>In fact, Plato would see them as a case in point: the problem with democracy is that it caters to people&rsquo;s need for easy answers. This, he believed, made them dangerously prone to demagogues. Democracy, he wrote, marginalizes the wise.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s human nature to want the easy answer. To be assuaged and reassured. We want the diet pill for governance &mdash; someone who says, &ldquo;Follow me. I know the way. And I know who&rsquo;s responsible for your problems.&rdquo;</p> <p>Do this. Eat that. Avoid this&nbsp;<em>one</em>&nbsp;food. This&nbsp;<em>one</em>&nbsp;exercise will fix everything.</p> <p>But things aren&rsquo;t easy. There is no superfood for governance. Democracy least of all.</p> <p>Just look at us. Individually, we have a hard enough time governing ourselves. We get sucked into fights with strangers. We have bad habits we can&rsquo;t break. We procrastinate. We blame others. We eat the wrong foods, give up on our goals, and choose the wrong partners.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@julie_diamond/there-is-no-superfood-for-governance-10ce0b59bc30"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>