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Democracy: (Greek) Demos - the people, Kratos - ruled by. fundamentally a…

- - - - Individualism: emphasis on the importance of the individual within a society
        
        undergirds
        
        Meritocracy
        
        ethical individuality
      - expressed by
    - - by placing boundaries on constitutional limits and individuals rights. Where majorities cannot and should not have the power to vote away fundamental rights or permanently oppress a minority
        
        this creates a healthy tension:
        
        democracy empowers the popular will but liberalism insists on the rule of law and protection of individuals.
        
        Plato, himself, associated democratia with oclocracia in other words, instead of the rule of the people, the demos, plato associated it with the rule of the mob.
        
        John Rawls argued that a just society must guarantee equal basic liberties for all, which democracy must respect even as the majority governs
- - - - political institutes
- - - - people want to do what they believe to be good and that there are a variety of competing interests, hopes and agendas that hold what we see in others’ actions in a kind of structural tension that operates to mediate their actions in ways that are not immediately apparent.
- - - - Journalism: the society's investigation into their shared or private world
        
        exposes the happenings of the private world
        
        reinforced the communality of human nature
        
        centralised hub for
        
        e.g Tabloid Journalism
        
        Gossip
        
        Critique
        
        scrutinies public institutions and political figures
        
        fosters a sense of
        
        Conspiracy-mindedness
        
        is a manifestation of
        
        Mistrust
        
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        holds institutions and political leaders accountable to their policies and promises
        
        which fosters
        
        One of the most misguided axioms of contemporary society is
        
        humanity's tendency to believe that because events are serious: because they are in the news or talked about regularly, that we somehow have an obligation to engage with them in that moment.
        
        spread of information
        
        holds authoritative figures accountable and disseminates power amongst the masses
- - - - reaffirms everyone's equal standing
      - Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke saw democratic self-rule as an expression of collective freedom and legitimate authority deriving from the people’s consent
- - - - creates an echo