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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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