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No voter can master every issue, and few voters try. Any democratic system must cope with that. Referendums, instead, invite us to ignore the question, give the snake-oil peddlers an edge, concentrate our ignorance into a tightly focused beam, and hold nobody accountable for results. They magnify the vulnerabilities of our democracies and diminish their defences.
How Referendums Break Democracies
Fran Monks
it’s good [to gently fight this monocropping — by actively hunting around and foraging for stuff](https://medium.com/forge/9-ways-to-rewild-your-attention-d7c9334b6b90) to look at, read, and see that’s far afield, quirkier, and more niche.
The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions
Clive Thompson
Wir müssen unsere Köpfe von der Fabrik- zur Denkarbeit überführen.
Die Neue Macht Der Corporate Influencer
Winfried Ebner and Klaus Eck
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