This excellent piece by Pankaj Mishra in today's Guardian highlights the shortcomings of our democratic institutions as mechanisms through which just outcomes might be arrived at. Mishra asks:
can the institutions of electoral democracy, liberal capitalism and the
nation-state be relied upon to do our moral thinking for us?
The evidence from many of the major trouble spots around the world, as well as the 'more mature' democracies, is that they cannot. And, as he points out, the prospects for global society of democracy continuing down the same path, are extremely frightening.
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