Biggest Flaw in Democracy! || Acharya Prashant

Full video : Small Leaders, Big Egos, Bigger Wars, Biggest Wipeout || Acharya Prashant, with UC Berkeley (2025)

Transcript

00:00I'm the top manipulator and I want these people to vote for me so I leave them worse off

00:06psychologically than they ever were. I'll condition them, I'll indoctrinate them,

00:11I'll radicalize them, I'll leave them worse off. That's what democracy does to an ignorant voter.

00:17If these people can vote for me only if they are uneducated then as a policy maker I would

00:22deliberately keep them uneducated if I want to come back to office. If these people will vote

00:27for me only when they are radicalized I'll ensure I keep radicalizing them deliberately

00:33so that they keep voting for me and that's a huge flaw in the democratic model the entire

00:38world is experiencing it. We'll need to correct it.