Infomocracy
Malka Ann Older
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We find that the people who hate each other that much rarely view the same type of Information.”
“you can give a voter Information, but you can’t make them think.”
“those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing and the inevitable distortions of time, what things were like before.”
“We want people to understand that they’re choosing a set of policies and principles, a way of life, not a person.”
“We know ‘vote for us and we will smite your enemies’ works.”
“democracy is of limited usefulness when there are no good choices, or when the good choices become bad as soon as you’ve chosen them, or when all the Information access in the world can’t make people use it.”
“all the hullabaloo for people who barely even think about their votes.”
“There was a study done with minimally educated voters who, given a hypothetical ballot, picked the names of famous serial killers over randomly generated names as well as over those of actual, less well-known politicians.”
“There is nothing that suits us more than most of the world believing that their will is being carried out by governments that do exactly as they please.”
“Then, with a flash of anger directed somewhere off in the direction of the streetlamp: “Why do people always expect you to trust them? With all the shit that goes on in this world, I don't know why anyone expects my trust just because they are unverifiably, according to themselves, a nice guy. Who the hell defaults to trust?”
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Book Keywords:
elections, representation, personality, electioneering, policy, platform
