Why Do People Automatically Think Democracy Is Inherently Good and Tyranny Inherently Bad?

Both systems are entirely a matter of what the people on the whole make of them.

There is nothing inherently good nor bad about either.

The only thing you can be sure about is that if the people have become corrupt, in either system, the worst will tend to rise to the top.

And neither deduction nor induction can prove that one or the other means goodness or badness will be achieved more quickly or certainly, by one or the other. That would be a matter of hopeful speculation.

It is possible to say that in a tyranny, everyone broadly knows what they will be getting and can manage their household around that with a fair amount of certainty.

But in a democracy - do we ever know what we are getting?

The difference with a democracy is that whatever the people are choosing will be guaranteed by the people choosing it, through the ballot.

And if that is badness, badness will be what we get. Yet we will not be aware of it, having rendered that decision into the unconscious by our vote. It becomes unconscious activity because we foolishly believe democracy is inherently good. And this is why we cannot know what we're going to get in a democracy.

I feel we can see this playing out very precisely today in the West. And worryingly tyranny seems to be ascendant because of our foolishness. It has nothing to do with wealth and power. And everything to do with 'We The People'

I'm also hearing many people say that "China is a great system don't you think?". Yet this simply reinforces my point - that a tyranny is also neither good not bad for us. It is what the Chinese people have made of it. And does anyone truly believe they are making the good of it?

So what do you think the Chinese have made of it? Its hard to ask them directly. Because if you have chosen the state as your Master, as slaves, you are forbidden from discussing it.

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