The Nemesis of Mediocrity
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True democ- racy means three things : Abolition of Privi- lege; Equal Opportunity for All; and Utili- zation of Ability. Unless democracy achieves these things it is not democracy, and no matter how " progressive " its meth- ods, how apparently democratic its machin- ery, it may perfectly well be an oligarchy, a kakistocracy or a tyranny. The three im- perative desiderata named above may be achieved under a monarchy, they may be lost in a republic, the mechanism does not matter. One of the chie...f faults with what we call our democracy is our stolid failure to understand that there is a democratic ideal and a democratic method, that there is not necessarily any connection between the two, and that generally speaking the democratic method (unstable, constantly changing its form) is incapable of accomplishing the democratic ideal.
That " democracy" for which the war is to make the world safe is of course the de- mocracy of ideal; it could not conceivably be the democracy of method for this had proved itself in the two generations before the war corrupt, incompetent and ridicu- [23] THE NEMESIS OF MEDIOCRITY lous, while during the war it has revealed increasingly its almost sublime incapacity in all matters where it has had a part; from Westminster to Rome, from Washington to Petrograd.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
True democ- racy means three things : Abolition of Privi- lege; Equal Opportunity for All; and Utili- zation of Ability. Unless democracy achieves these things it is not democracy, and no matter how " progressive " its meth- ods, how apparently democratic its machin- ery, it may perfectly well be an oligarchy, a kakistocracy or a tyranny. The three im- perative desiderata named above may be achieved under a monarchy, they may be lost in a republic, the mechanism does not matter. One of the chie...f faults with what we call our democracy is our stolid failure to understand that there is a democratic ideal and a democratic method, that there is not necessarily any connection between the two, and that generally speaking the democratic method (unstable, constantly changing its form) is incapable of accomplishing the democratic ideal.
That " democracy" for which the war is to make the world safe is of course the de- mocracy of ideal; it could not conceivably be the democracy of method for this had proved itself in the two generations before the war corrupt, incompetent and ridicu- [23] THE NEMESIS OF MEDIOCRITY lous, while during the war it has revealed increasingly its almost sublime incapacity in all matters where it has had a part; from Westminster to Rome, from Washington to Petrograd.
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