It is a fun challenge to come here and openly criticise popularity as a mechanism for running societies, on…

It is a fun challenge to come here and openly criticise popularity as a mechanism for running societies, on platforms structured around it. There is no connection between popularity and competence. No amount of electing anybody will ever fix anything. 1/2

In fact, it’s way worse. It sets up status hierarchies based entirely on popularity, a world of influencers. Those hierarchies replace the ones based on expertise. Then they destroy societies. This pattern has repeated throughout history. We refuse to see it. 2/2