You can’t decide that integral members of a society have no say in how the society runs, otherwise those members of the society will grow to despise it. Clearly that’s the case now, but that goes back to my point about channels of information. We’re currently in a society where everyone frantically scrambles to enrage each other because there’s damned good money in it.
Whatever comes next will likely remove voting altogether, since restricting voting back to male landowners isn’t tenable.
Why not? Seems way easier than the former. You can even do it "progressively" by gradually making it more difficult, though obviously a dictator could go either way.
Nope. Voting only works if only the few have the power to vote. Otherwise history shows us it gives us shit.
Whatever comes next will likely remove voting altogether, since restricting voting back to male landowners isn’t tenable.
You can’t decide that integral members of a society have no say in how the society runs, otherwise those members of the society will grow to despise it. Clearly that’s the case now, but that goes back to my point about channels of information. We’re currently in a society where everyone frantically scrambles to enrage each other because there’s damned good money in it.
You absolutely can. Societies have done it in the past and will again. The collapse is inevitable.
Why not? Seems way easier than the former. You can even do it "progressively" by gradually making it more difficult, though obviously a dictator could go either way.