Yesterday was the International Day of Democracy. Perhaps conscious of democracy’s decline under their watch, all the usual suspects have come out of the woodwork to flog their virtues.
It is my view that these entities pretend, rather than believe, in the merits of democracy. Either that or they misuse the mirage of democracy as a means to sell their tyrannical wares, these being additional layers of governance designed to suffocate fledgling technologies that threaten existing systems of control.
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