So there you have it: a theory of how totalitarianism could naturally triumph. The basic idea is that when information is expensive, liberal democracy wins because it gathers more and better information than closed societies, but when information is cheap, the sum is negative. information tournaments sap an ever-greater share of the resources of a liberal society. Remember I don’t believe this theory; I’m just trying to phrase it.
Here is the full blog articleclosed after a certain point.
