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Taleb: “Democracy: representation by a very narrow selection of people whose principal attributes and skills are that they are very, very good at being elected.”
In fact, there is a vicious cycle: most voters are idiots who vote for political demons who, together with capitalist demons, make everything to hinder the intellectual evolution of the masses and keep idiots voting for political demons. Rinse and repeat.
The only good politician is the one who openly speaks about the evil of political power and sincerely aims to bring the society to a state in which it will need neither political power nor politicians. The true purpose of the State is to bring the society to a state in which it will never need the State again. Alas, in reality, the State is the stationary bandit (Olson) that cares only about preserving its power forever at the cost of hindering the evolution of the society.
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