this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
1156 points (88.6% liked)

Comic Strips

12750 readers
3188 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but your message is not as thought out and well reasoned as you think it is. You are literally just repeating stuff you have heard somewhere, without knowing the context or the entire surrounding school of thought, and then of course you double down on your dunning Kruger interpretation of what a democracy does.

And I wouldn't call John Lock or Alexander Hamilton a "Greek philosopher", but you do need to understand that their idea of democracy stems from the Renaissance and Enlightenment era's rediscovery of Greco-Roman philosophy, so if you are referring to democracy as a governmental structure, you are talking about these Greek philosophers.

[–] dx1@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am not "just repeating stuff I have heard somewhere", I have reasoned out myself the basic truth that a society where the will of the public dictates its structure benefits immensely from the population being educated. Regardless of what Socrates or Plato said, regardless of what the American "founding fathers" said. Done with this conversation, blocking.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

textbook Dunning-Kruger