Stress Test for Democracy

Download or read book Stress Test for Democracy written by Marc Nottelmann-Feil and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media arrived in reality before anybody had given their effect on societal environments any thought. Based on a misapprehension of how humans interact as social beings, political processes today have been replaced by extensive networking, introducing new rules to how people form and shape opinions. Democracy as a form of government is weakening, while autocracy is on the rise. In his essay, Marc Nottelmann-Feil gives a matter-of-fact overview over developments everyone of us has already experienced for him- or herself. He illustrates why this revolution in human communications makes reconciling the interests of individuals, political groups and nations more difficult rather than easier.