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The Death Of Democracy
There is a very conscious and very important reason why I have been using the term "decentralization", rather than "democratization", throughout this article. What we are witnessing today, is not the democratization of society, but the genuine liberalization of it. And this change is being facilitated largely by the turbulent, disorganized, and unplanned free market of modern technology.
Democracy is a very old social technology; it is very ill conceived, and very inadequate at meeting the challenges and the needs of a highly diverse, highly mobile, highly educated, and highly empowered human civilization. It suffers from the same crippling atavistic narcissism and hubris that command-and-control and utopian political ideologies also suffer from.
The internet, and the free and open market of ideas and entrepreneurial energy it has made possible, is slowly replacing this dinosaur of social technology. And those who still cling to the dinosaur are not going to give it up, without a hard fight.