Hoppe Meets Dunder Mifflin: When NBC’s The Office Taught Us About the Dangers of Democracy
Hoppe Meets Dunder Mifflin: When NBC’s The Office Taught Us About the Dangers of Democracy
Cody Cook - Contributor, Libertarian Christian Institute
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This week, Christian anarchist Cody Cook takes on “democracy”, in terms of the beloved comedy series, “The Office”. As some understand, America’s government is not a democracy, or at least it wasn’t supposed to be. Our Founders understood democracy as ruled by the mob, alluding to the Athens mob killing Socrates by a majority vote. Franklin famously said that we had been given a “Republic” – but only “if we could keep it”. Has our limited government republic morphed into an uncontrollable, tyrannical democracy? (We think so.)
The Office series explored the dangerous demagoguery inherent to democracy, and Mr. Cook will explain why this is so, via a look at Hoppe’s controversial classic, “Democracy: The God That Failed.”
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