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256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas

You Are Not So Smart

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The Conspiracy of Counterintelligence

In every kind of society that ever existed, there are group decisions. The question is how do you make them? For most of history, in much of the world, it was felt that the best way for those kinds of decisions to be made was to have one guy make them into the village. In the last few hundred years, this new system came about called democracy. But we forget how utterly insane a project democracy is.

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