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Thinking about the problems with democracy... Stefan mentions them occasionally. Such as if you incentivise governments to only consider 5 years into the future then they will not care more than five years into the future and will do things like take loans for other governments to pay off. The blunt force of government and the ease with which the system seems to be able to be corrupted. For instance, how the police can be made to arrest social media users rather than acid attackers/ rape gangs in the UK. I would like to read in depth Stefan's Everyday Anarchy which would be a solution to this but I may or may not have the time! Does anyone else think about this? I'm just frustrated by how obviously flawed and unworkable the system of democracy seems to be! And as far as democracy goes there are a lot of things to consider but one of them is that a person who was propagandised and has very little interest in politics has the same vote as someone who reads it day in and day out. That sometimes in a two party system each one is unworkable as the other. That any attempt to reform the two party system usually ends up with Proportional Representation and rainbow coalitions. That one biased politician represents a whole area. Some of which are constituents that care about things this person doesn't care about... I.e. a leftist politician and someone that cares about immigration. That some policians because of this system do horrendous things to gain power. Such as ignoring rape gangs.