Die Diktatur der Dummen

No power to the loudmouths, the self-important, the arrogant! Democracy is undoubtedly the greatest achievement we humans have attained. But what happens when the wiser, the more thoughtful, and the considerate increasingly yield to the loudmouths, the self-important, and the arrogant? Then democracy quickly turns into an idiocracy, a dictatorship of the foolish. We live in a system of dumbing down, driven by the economy, media, and politics, into which we allow ourselves to be drawn without resistance. "Would you like a little more?" asks Witzer, and he does not mean more money or more success, but the qualities that keep a society from intellectual collapse: integrity and responsibility. A call to think for oneself!.