What doesn't work in a technological society gets thrown out .

Our democracy and that of the USA and other western powers is not working. Our parliament in AUSTRALIA NEVER talks about reforming the electoral system so it has some hope of rescuing the country from the domination of the keptocracy. Restoring some power to the productive and away from the dependants and the idealizers etc   
 .What a disgrace our parliaments are in the face of threats from the tyrannical and such groups .

 
What doesn't work in a technological society gets thrown out .( Ellul)
Democracy in the west is at great risk of being thrown out 
So we need to watch out for the tyrant - here's a few clues 

Tyrants of the past ( see "How to become a Tyrant "on Netflix) used to need to control information flow , but the clever ones of today ( like Stalin did) quote scientists who are perceived ,by far too many, to know everything . Provided you know a scientist who think he knows everything, those who run their own favourite solutions to world problems ( like running all problems down to zero ) look OK standing beside them .

Another modern reality is that most of our people don't have to face risk decisions enough to know that there is  always a risk and always a need for cost benefiting that risk . Imagine Premiers having such meetings.  

Cost benefit is too hard a subject for these incompetent attention getters with Victoria , Qld and WA  running with the worry warriors for years . http://fearmongers.blogspot.com

Compounding all this is the absolute fact that post modern wannabes , not only DO NOT hold to a cost benefit philosophy, but blatantly grab hold of and abuse the surgeons tool of the precautionary principle to justify going in as hard as they like to justify what ever they like ( deaths , disaster)