“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.” (From Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality")
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?" (From Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love")
Re: Увы, пупс все в большей мере...
Date: 2016-07-04 06:45 pm (UTC)(From Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality")
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?"
(From Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love")