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Best part of this article is the linked medium post by Pat Ker. That was a good read: https://medium.com/@patkerr/why-i-think-xkcd-is-wrong-about-....

Less 'XKCD is wrong and stupid!' and more 'its not the full picture'

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The way that I tend to think of it is that democracy is a type of society not just a form of government. That is a society is democratic not so much because they vote but because they follow ideals such as freedom of speech and self determination.

That's probably more of a distinction between individualism and collectivism, than democracy per se.

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