Habr: democracy or tyranny

At first glance, Habrahabr looks like a place where visitors decide something. It seems logical that if everyone votes for or against the publication, then interesting publications will rise to the top. Only there is one caveat - interestingness is estimated by the crowd, and someone always drives the crowd :)

Here, for example, I wrote an article, she was brutally zaminusovali, and then she disappeared altogether, with all the comments, it turned out that someone transferred it to the draft mode, and I put the minuses into my karma so that I could not make it public. Similar objectionable publications will be treated in a similar way. This is how public opinion is unobtrusively formed: “do not think about it, do not think, simply because you do not know what it is”.

Hence the conclusion: if you feel good and comfortable, then you are like everything else, you arrange the system, you understand the rules of the game and do not back away from them. So it looks like a real state - take a crowd of people, give them the opportunity to talk and throw them a toy while they have fun playing with it (pseudo-democracy in the state, pseudo-democracy in the state, war, religion), the state will exist and eat at the expense of its inhabitants. The top will skim the cream, most will play democracy (go to the polls?), And, of course, there will be a certain proportion of the ingloriously fallen for their truth, which did not please the state. This is neither bad nor good, it is just there.
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Nobody needs real democracy - neither to the upper and lower ranks.