DEMOCRACY AS THE CAUSE OF NONSENSE OPINION (cross posted) Some people will work

DEMOCRACY AS THE CAUSE OF NONSENSE OPINION

(cross posted)

Some people will work very hard to justify their intuitions as a source of knowledge, rather than to hypothesize, discover and decide what operational statements are necessary and sufficient for the most parsimonious definition of any idea despite what they intuit. It takes great courage to accept that our intuitions tell us little, and what they do tell us is most often false. And it requires sufficient intelligence and general knowledge to replace intuition as a means of decidability. So for many people, for the vast majority of people, intuition must suffice; since otherwise they would be unable to decide and act. Unfortunately, under social democracy and universal education we have convinced the average person that his opinions can and must have merit, in order to justify the popular vote. Whereas in prior eras people would have correctly said “I don’t know enough about such things”, the average person today forwards and intuitionistic opinion consisting of randomly constructed nonsense, for no other reason than he was told to, in order to justify the legitimacy of the democratic state by inflating support with artificial numbers.