Hatred of Democracy by JACQUES RANCIERE
Where things like reality TV, homosexual marriage and artificial insemination increase in popularity. and social security is running a deficit; unconcerned, people generally behave the way it pleases them.
What causes this is called democracy, that is, the reign of the limitless desire of individuals in modern mass society.
The book begins by a real description of the success of democracy, how it brought the beneficial effects like a constitutional State, and also the disorderly ones like a limitless desire. After a short discussion about Greek classics, the next chapter traces the source of such evils, finding all those lying further in the past. The third chapter is about marrying the ideas of democracy and the republic. Here, the book talks of the need to separate the exercise of governance from the representation of the society. Next chapter looks at the issue of the 'reign of the limitless desire'. How, 'democracy' turns into something like an 'oligarchy' that leaves enough room for democracy to become such a reign. Next and the last chapter effectively summarizes things brought out by all chapters. How, we now blame all of humanity's misfortunes on a single evil called democracy, and how we can avoid it.
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