How likely do you think it is that your writing against voting will affect the results of a government election, at any level of government anywhere? :P
If it did, what kind of difference would you expect from it, if any?
I have an unusually high amount of influence and public uptake. I am not as famous as Singer or Sandel, but I get more attention than most.
Despite that, I expect not to have much influence on actual policy or behavior. It’d be surprising if I did have much.
There’s a long shot game I’m sort of playing: You get new ideas out there. They spread around into the public discourse. People know of the arguments and ideas even if they don’t know the source. Then, when a crisis occurs, maybe 20-50 years down the road, they might be willing to experiment with your ideas to fix the crisis. That seems to be what happens with most big ideas in political philosophy that have any traction. It takes decades for the philosopher to influence outcomes, and when they do, people don’t even know the philosopher they are responding to. Maybe my stuff on what’s wrong with democracy and how we can improve it will be like that. Against Democracy has had a lot of success, so it’s possible. But I would think it’s more likely than not that it won’t do anything despite that.
How likely do you think it is that your writing against voting will affect the results of a government election, at any level of government anywhere? :P
If it did, what kind of difference would you expect from it, if any?
I have an unusually high amount of influence and public uptake. I am not as famous as Singer or Sandel, but I get more attention than most.
Despite that, I expect not to have much influence on actual policy or behavior. It’d be surprising if I did have much.
There’s a long shot game I’m sort of playing: You get new ideas out there. They spread around into the public discourse. People know of the arguments and ideas even if they don’t know the source. Then, when a crisis occurs, maybe 20-50 years down the road, they might be willing to experiment with your ideas to fix the crisis. That seems to be what happens with most big ideas in political philosophy that have any traction. It takes decades for the philosopher to influence outcomes, and when they do, people don’t even know the philosopher they are responding to. Maybe my stuff on what’s wrong with democracy and how we can improve it will be like that. Against Democracy has had a lot of success, so it’s possible. But I would think it’s more likely than not that it won’t do anything despite that.