4 August

There’s a common and simplistic view that ‘democracy’ means each person’s opinion is as equal as any other. It doesn’t mean that at all. Democracy is hierarchical, as hierarchical as any other system. That hierarchy is shaped by expertise. All democracy does differently is allow some input by all into who occupies some levels of that hierarchy. Unfortunately the simplistic view allows all beliefs to be equal. This eventually destroys any hierarchy, and with it the society built around it.