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Does anyone even pretend to believe in democracy anymore?
As the veil of perfection of liberal democracy is now generally acknowledged to be in tatters, it's about time for normal people to start looking mechanically at what democracy really is.
In this episode, we explore the structure of a party system in democracy, Bryan Caplan (in Myth of the Rational Voter) argues that people are not randomly stupid, but systematically stupid, James Burham (in The Machiavellians: The Defenders of Freedom) tells us about Dante and the real meaning of political ideology, and SJWs absolutely annihilate Ben Shapiro and bulldoze his house down.
Readings and Links
Note that pay-walled academic articles may be obtained by feeding their URLs to sites like Sci-Hub.
- The Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan)
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Joseph Schumpeter)
- What's Wrong with Democracy? (Loren J. Samons)
- "Dante's Politics as Wish" (James Burnham, an excerpt from The Machiavellians: The Defenders of Freedom)
- De Monarchia (Dante Alighieri)
Timecodes
00:00 Intro
04:11 "Everyone but me is dumb and irrational!"
07:27 The Arisalment of Public Choice and Rational Ignorance
11:43 Democracy BTFO?
12:52 The Miracle of Aggregation and the Wisdom of the Crowds
17:21 The Democracy of Occupy Wallstreet
19:42 Bryan Caplan's the Myth of the Rational Voter
20:17 Rational Irrationality
22:17 Systematically Brainlets?
28:29 The Origin of Political Biases
30:08 You can Donate Bitcoin now
31:14 Emails
33:30 The Urban-Rural divide in American politics
35:48 Mitchell Heisman
36:53 Muh pronouns
38:38 IDENTITY POLITICS EVISCERATES BEN SHAPIRO WITH LOGIC
42:43 Schumpeter on Public Will
45:23 Logic is a Spook
46:47 James Burnham's the Machiavellian's: The Defenders of Freedom
47:19 Dante's De Monarchia
49:30 The Real Meaning of politics and persuasion
56:36 Schumpeter's Theory of Democracy as Government-seeking
59:49 de Tocqueville's Great and Small Parties
1:02:42 The Inanity of Third Parties
1:05:49 Caplan's propositions for democracy
1:08:55 Gee Bill! How come your mom lets you have TWO votes?
1:10:42 Democratic localism
1:13:37 Closing
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