Mass Democracy and Strong Man Leadership
Recently I feel my life can also fit into the international politics theory. Such theories are after all empirical. It’s proper to say that the strong man has the legitimacy to exist. I think sometimes it’s even better for the public good. Mass democracy=Mass stupidity Mass democracy means that the mass/ people decide where the whole group is going. People aggregate their view and then they formed the final decision. However, if this mass is an organized one, the group would be easily misled. If a person said something, other people think that they also think the same thing. This is a sort of decision that would easily go wrong because the process of forming the consensus without the deliberation is dangerous. At the same time, it’s also perilous if the people have all sorts of opinions. The opinions can be so divided that the mass cannot go anywhere. Because everyone is equal in the system, everyone could just doubt one another’s opinion and propose an alternative. In this sense, the ...