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:!: LECTURE 24 - CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY (party democracy (lottocracy/sortitio…
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The lack of confidence in democratic institutions is clearly exceeded by the lack of enthusiasm for any alternative set of institutions.
“Dissatisfaction with and lack of confidence in the functioning of the institutions of democratic government have thus now become widespread in Trilateral countries. Yet with all this dissatisfaction, no significant support has yet developed for any alternative image of how to organize the politics of a highly industrialized society.”
What is in short supply in democratic societies today is thus not consensus on the rules of the game but a sense of purpose as to what one should achieve by playing the game.”
“In this situation, the machinery of democracy continues to operate, but the ability of the individuals operating that machinery to make decisions tends to deteriorate. Without common purpose, there is no basis for common priorities, and without priorities, there are no grounds for distinguishing among competing private interests and claims.”
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