There Is No Superfood for Governance
<p>Plato hated democracy. He’d have a lot of friends today.</p>
<p>But Plato’s hatred for democracy was for a very different reason than that of today’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’s need for easy answers. This, he believed, made them dangerously prone to demagogues. Democracy, he wrote, marginalizes the wise.</p>
<p>It’s human nature to want the easy answer. To be assuaged and reassured. We want the diet pill for governance — someone who says, “Follow me. I know the way. And I know who’s responsible for your problems.”</p>
<p>Do this. Eat that. Avoid this <em>one</em> food. This <em>one</em> exercise will fix everything.</p>
<p>But things aren’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’t break. We procrastinate. We blame others. We eat the wrong foods, give up on our goals, and choose the wrong partners.</p>
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