Clearly self preservation stops at simple math.
We need to confront the fact that democracy in the West by now elects people who sell the most comfortable lies instead of people who help adaptation to reality.
We need to confront the fact that democracy in the West by now elects people who sell the most comfortable lies instead of people who help adaptation to reality.
I am hopeful that human civilization and ingenuity can invent or discover that. I am just not confident that it would be anytime soon.
Alternatively, they do, and the process of getting there makes them less likely to do the things they wanted to do.
Bring back sortition!