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Today, misconceptions about ‘voter ignorance’ are fuelling calls to strip votes from people because of their presumed inferiority as ‘knowers.’ Setting aside the fact that such proposals for epistocracy are inherently inegalitarian, they also suffer from fatal epistemological flaws, because they are rooted in a __fundamental error: the presumption that ‘rule by knowers’ will lead to more knowledgeable rule.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
We desire to reform, to rearrange the effects without radically altering the cause. As the end is in the means, so the effect is in the cause.
Tweets From Krishnamurti
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Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.
You Must Change Your Life
Peter Sloterdijk
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