Pareto applies: most of the affect of voting is controlled by a minority of the vote, which is controlled by a very small percentage of those affected by the outcome.
I would describe Briggs' theme, to use his phrase, as "ignorance averaging." I would characterize his theme as "How Joe Biden became President, the intended non-wisdom of voting by propagandized crowds."
As variation on Briggs' contrarian theme, I suggest 1) "the wisdom of no master plan" and offer as support the 1964 essay, "I, Pencil," and the histories of the Soviet Union, the Holodamor and China's Great Leap Forward, and 2) "the wisdom of the spontaneous order," for support of which I offer von Hayek's "Fatal Conceit" and the histories of socialism and the modern Democrat Party.
My conclusion is that IF spontaneity in adherence to accepted common rules IS NOT INTENTIONALLY DISRUPTED (as, e.g., by Facebook, Twitter, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, NYT and the Washington Post specifically in the 2020 election and by Zuckerberg, Twitter, Google, Stalin, Mao, and Biden generally) the emergence of common good and positive order is the unintended consequence of seeming chaos, e.g., as with a) Adams Smith's invisible hand guiding the demand, supply and pricing of free markets, b) speech under the First Amendment and c) the internet exchange of information and ideas.
Good article, thanks.
Pareto applies: most of the affect of voting is controlled by a minority of the vote, which is controlled by a very small percentage of those affected by the outcome.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone.
I would describe Briggs' theme, to use his phrase, as "ignorance averaging." I would characterize his theme as "How Joe Biden became President, the intended non-wisdom of voting by propagandized crowds."
As variation on Briggs' contrarian theme, I suggest 1) "the wisdom of no master plan" and offer as support the 1964 essay, "I, Pencil," and the histories of the Soviet Union, the Holodamor and China's Great Leap Forward, and 2) "the wisdom of the spontaneous order," for support of which I offer von Hayek's "Fatal Conceit" and the histories of socialism and the modern Democrat Party.
My conclusion is that IF spontaneity in adherence to accepted common rules IS NOT INTENTIONALLY DISRUPTED (as, e.g., by Facebook, Twitter, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, NYT and the Washington Post specifically in the 2020 election and by Zuckerberg, Twitter, Google, Stalin, Mao, and Biden generally) the emergence of common good and positive order is the unintended consequence of seeming chaos, e.g., as with a) Adams Smith's invisible hand guiding the demand, supply and pricing of free markets, b) speech under the First Amendment and c) the internet exchange of information and ideas.