Hybris and Nemesis
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How the dark side of power leads us into the abyss – Insights from 5000 years
The risks and dangers of military and ecological destruction are now so great that they threaten human civilisation par excellence. The challenge of creating a good, liveable and well-ordered community is more urgent today than ever before. But the only means on which hope can be founded is de facto no longer available to us today: democracy. The cognitive psychologist Rainer Mausfeld argues that democracy has become an empty word: while democracy was once an instrument to contain elite depravity, the guiding civilisational idea of democracy has been expropriated from us, distorted, and turned into its opposite: the rule of elites. In a broad sweep, Mausfeld shows how this devastating development could have come about and what we must do to escape the civilisational abyss.
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