Majorities and Minorities

 Majorities and Minorities

And since the theoreticians of democracy have for over a hundred years taught the majorities that whatever they desire is just, we must not be surprised if the majorities no longer even ask whether what they decide is just.--hayek

Soooo.....

Lockdowns shredded the social contract. They splintered society into violently opposed factions. (They damaged religions, they contributed to the inflation disaster, they contributed to roughly doubling the food price index, they led to mass surveillance, etc). And if the governments got lockdowns so wrong, why should we believe that they got other things right? This is still a relevant question as we careen toward energy rationing and food crises and already see inflation at around 10%.--lynch

There is another problem: are these decision-makers the majority? Or are they just a small group of guys with their hands on the levers who have some ideas that they think are moral? Who is really in favor of shutting down modern energy, closing the farms, and returning to the halcyon days of the 18th century?