Robert Anton Wilson - demokrasi

SEÇİME AZ KALA 20. YÜZYIL'IN EN BÜYÜK DAHİLERİNDEN BİRİNİN SÖZLERİNE GÖZ ATALIM.


"Democracy has been less than a total success—and the intellectual's
half-shamed cynicism about democracy is justified—to
the extent that traditional society did not need, could not use, and
in many ways discouraged the development of high verbal
("rational") skills in the majority of the population. That is,
concretely, most people are not encouraged to be very smart, and
are rather heavily programmed to be comparatively stupid. Such
programming is what is needed to fit them into most traditional
jobs. Their bio-survival circuitry works as well as that of most
animals, their emotional-territorial circuitry is typically primate,
and they have little third-circuit "mind" to verbalize (rationalize)
with. Naturally, they usually vote for the charlatan who can
 activate primitive bio-survival fears and territorial ("patriotic")

pugnacity. The intellectual looks at the dismal results and continues
to believe in "democracy" only by an act of Blind Faith
similar to the way beliefs in Catholicism or Communism or
snake-worship are maintained."