Democracy is rule of the average, therefore, for people of higher-than-average intelligence, Democracy is humiliating, because they are effectively ruled over by people less intelligent than themselves.
Corollary: The practice of Politics is how the higher-than-average redeem their self-respect. By reclassifying the lower-than-average as automatons to be manipulated into pre-agreed decisions, governance can once again become the spoils of winning an intellectual game, and those who lose can accept that they were outmaneuvered.
Corollary: The practice of Politics is how the higher-than-average redeem their self-respect. By reclassifying the lower-than-average as automatons to be manipulated into pre-agreed decisions, governance can once again become the spoils of winning an intellectual game, and those who lose can accept that they were outmaneuvered.
