"a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy"

Thoralf Donnerstein schrieb am 19.03.2021 20:53:

Irgendwer in der großen Politik hat endlich das Prinzip von Demokratie verstanden.

Schon vor Jahrzehnten:
"In short, Huntington is well-qualified to discourse on the problems of democracy.
The report argues that what is needed in the industrial democracies “is a greater degree of moderation in democracy” to overcome the “excess of democracy” of the past decade. “The effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part of some individuals and groups.” This recommendation recalls the analysis of Third World problems put forth by other political thinkers of the same persuasion, for example, Ithiel Pool (then chairman of the Department of Political Science at MIT), who explained some years ago that in Vietnam, the Congo, and the Dominican Republic, “order depends on somehow compelling newly mobilized strata to return to a measure of passivity and defeatism… At least temporarily the maintenance of order requires a lowering of newly acquired aspirations and levels of political activity.” The Trilateral recommendations for the capitalist democracies are an application at home of the theories of “order” developed for subject societies of the Third World."
https://chomsky.info/priorities01/

"THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits."
https://archive.org/details/Propaganda1928ByEdwardL.Bernays

"Aufrechterhaltung der "globalen hierarchischen Klassengesellschaft""
http://web.archive.org/web/20160305033827/http://werkstatt.or.at/index.php?id=191&itemid=1&option=com_content&task=view
Auf PDF-Seite 64:
"With the TNC we need to find a symbiotic relationship."
https://web.archive.org/web/20120111092046/http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/What_ambitions_for_European_defence_in_2020.pdf