We could talk about Western liberal democracy.

Oh, what about very theoretical?

What about like Western liberal democracy?

Let me tell you about the issues with Western liberal democracy.

And let me just put it in the perspective of my physics class and specifically my physics group, right?

Okay.

The issue with, uh, it's.

Socrates also talks about this too, how he hated like athenian democracy like

direct democracy and shit like that okay because motherfuckers are dumb you know what i mean continue

constantly voting against their best interests and let me put this in in perspective for you in my

physics class three people three people do a group right okay okay i am just i was just gaslit into

thinking that i was wrong.

Like every fucking day in that class. Yeah. And it was horrible. And sometimes, like, my two groupmates who I'd like not to shame them just didn't know as much about the physics as I did, not even that I'm fucking smart or anything. I just took the class in high school. So I had some prior knowledge. so I like knew a little bit more about what I was talking about.

Of course.

For like some more abstract concepts and things.

These movies. or anything. I just took the class in high school. So I had some prior knowledge. So I, like, knew a little bit more about what I was talking about. Of course, for like some more abstract concepts and things.

These movements are just, just argue with me. And it's two against one. So me being over here,

I'm thinking, yeah, okay, I'm probably wrong. And they'll call over a TA and like ask the wrong kind of question. The TA will like, you know, respond in a weird way. They don't really understand. I'm like, okay, well, the TA, they've answered to authority. So now I know that I'm wrong. Little ethos appeal. Exactly. And then five minutes later, we get to presenting and who's right, who's right? You were right. I'm right. I'm exactly right. And that's why I hate Western liberal democracy. But here's the thing, though, is that in Athens. That wasn't Western liberal democracy. That's true. Liberal democracy didn't really exist until... Athenian democracy was much different. After, like, Renaissance republicanism was already over and we were kind of like transforming into what the U.S. is now. Western liberal democracy is definitely terrible. Oh, yeah. Uniquely bad. Oh, yeah. But also, Socrates did hate Athenian democracy because he thought that, like, the plebs shouldn't be able to decide how society goes. And obviously, Socrates was like a, you know, wealthy, well-off aristocrat philosopher philosopher guy. So, you know, just a little history.

They also, him and, you know, Plato also thought that societies should be ruled by philosopher kings. Yeah, philosopher kings. That's a little something for that one. It's a little technocracy back in ancient. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, well, I mean, I get what you're saying, though, you know. That'd be pretty frustrating to have to do with people in class like that.

I sit there and I think I think about the pod. Yeah, well, I mean, I get what you're saying, though, you know? That'd be pretty frustrating to have to do with people in class like that.

I sit there and I think, I think about the pod.

I think, damn, though.

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