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The Problem With Representative Democracy

Kierkegaard has something about that way back in the 19th century he says one of the problems with representative democracy is that it's so easy to disavow responsibility for your social and political choices. We can blame our Freudian id or our Marxist capitalist oppressors or our Darwinian a paratage we can blame anything especially history especially the past especially our ancestors they're dead they can't answer backWe can easily blame them in terms of the way Tolkien talks about the idea of free will and deaths in your work together.

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