“Trust in democracy based on an uncritical belief in its rightness (epistemic or moral) is exactly as dumb as uncritical belief in the rightness of monarchs. A better basis for the trust is the idea that it is better to include even a noisy and unreliable reality signal than to exclude it. The reason to reject monarchism is not that emperors are sometimes bad, but that good or bad, it is better to constrain would-be emperors with more rather than fewer reality signals than they would prefer, turning them into elected figures.”

Banger courtesy of @vgr

How does one move beyond epistemology and morality to reach this perspective? Information-theoretic governance philosophy.