In the essay here (https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-best-use-of-our-limited-resources-in-service-of-democracy/), Ramon van der Does argues that "we cannot afford to spend our time and energy collecting and explicating all adjectives that go with the word 'democracy'. We need to take our limited resources seriously; we need to focus on providing practical ways to bring power to the people."
van der Does argues that most people will have 80,000 hours of work (more or less) in their lives and that means:
(a) people not working in/on/for/from democratic theory will only have limited time to engage with democratic politics (so clear and effective advice should be provided to them)
and
(b) people who are working in/on/for/from democratic theory cannot do it all - they need to be selective due to limited resources (such as time).
I suppose an analogy would be if a people are hungry, and we know barley or rice or corn works super well at feeding people, then why look for other crops? Fix the problem first and then look for new crops.
What do you think? Is it a misuse of resources to conduct basic research on democracy whilst democracies are undergoing various crises?
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-best-use-of-our-limited-resources-in-service-of-democracy/
The way of our days have a vested interest in keeping everyone poor and powerless, because if everyone is king, there no one is king.
Wealth is meaningless, if everyone is wealthy. Power is meaningless, if everyone as power.
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