🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
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Many problems in our society are caused by blind faith in authority figures
Democracy is just blind faith in a group of authority figures where as monarchy is blind faith in one authority figure
People can also have blind faith in money, corporations, news media outlets, universities and public or private schools in addjtion to government
