Thanks to American efficiency, the US can achieve with only two parties a level of deeply antagonistic institutional stalemate that usually requires 5 or more parties in Western Europe.
"Democracy might begin as a defensible procedural mechanism for limiting government power, but it quickly and inexorably develops into something quite different: A CULTURE OF SYSTEMIC THIEVERY. As soon as politicians have learned to buy political support from the "public purse," and conditioned electorates to embrace looting and bribery, the democratic process reduces itself to the formation of (Mancur Olsons) "distributional coalitions" — electoral majorities mortared together by common interest in a collectively advantageous PATTERN OF THEFT."
"Worse still, since people are, on average, not very bright, the scale of depredation available to the political establishment far exceeds even the demented sacking that is open to public scrutiny. LOOTING THE FUTURE, through currency debauchment, debt accumulation, growth destruction, and techno-industrial retardation is especially easy to conceal, and thus reliably popular."
Democracy is essentially tragic because it provides the populace with a WEAPON TO DESTROY ITSELF, one that is always eagerly seized, and used. Nobody ever says "no" to free stuff. Scarcely anybody even sees that there is no free stuff. Utter cultural ruination is the necessary conclusion."
Nick Land
"The Dark Enlightenment"
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Today the wind blew my hat off on a scenic ski lift and my sister said “is it worth it?” And I said “no, probably not” before hiking 30 minutes each way to get that mf’ing hat