Is it me or is the dogmatic belief in the 'People' to resolve is taken for granted? It is a ubiquitous cancer. The People, the Majority, and the multitudes and mobs are not your friend to begin with. What people to begin with? Who? This term is applied so often, when taken outside of the pessimistic view, it is applied universally regardless of distinction. The People reign and nobody can imagine or speak well enough to criticize this. You might as well blame the Gods, but never the People, for what problems we have.
Democracy and anything democratic, the worship and exultation of democracy as ideal government, confirmed in the "representative" republic, loads up the narrative that somewhere "The People" are going to save you. Does anyone ever blame "The People" when things go wrong? Does anyone look at "The People" for presenting terrible leaders? In this world, the People can do no wrong.
Everyone knows how cliques are terrible and anti-social. They never liked the social atmosphere that aristocracy sometimes breeds. This is understandable seeing as how a clique or a group of people sometimes creates a nasty atmosphere (contrasted with the idea of an individual monarch; but not to scare the people who have fetishized aristocracy). – Nobody is skeptical about the social atmosphere a mob creates. Destruction and anarchy suit the appetite of people generally these days as the common good.
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