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Western democracy is suboptimal. But ritualistic voting is blocking
democracy from evolving. The following from ""Democracy is like the
appendix" by Dylan Evans in "What Should We be Worried" edited by John
Brockman 2014:

"Democracy is like the appendix. The very thing that makes majority
dissatisfaction inevitable in a democracy—the voting mechanism—also
makes it hard for a better political system to develop. The reforms that
would be necessary to pave the way for alternative systems of governance
lie well outside the safe middle ground of the median voter. Politicians
advocating such reforms are unlikely, therefore, to be voted into
office."