Democracy can’t work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that’s all there is– so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Democracy can’t work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that’s all there is– so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

– Robert A. Heinlein –

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