The Human Hive
The Reith Lectures
What Is Our Representative Government?
In this lecture, i want to make an argument about our modern representative government and what ails it. My starting assumption is the conventional one, that it is generally better for government to be in some way representative of the governed than not. But the critics of western democracy are right to discern that something is amiss with our political institutions. The most obvious symptom of the malays are the huge debts we have managed to accumulate in recent decades. I want to suggest that they are a consequence of a more profound malfunction. Public debt allows the current generation of voters to live at the expense of those as yet too young to vote, or as yet unborn.
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