"Representative democracy is hard because we have lives and can't easily be informed about all that we need to know as citizens." @lessig
Thread · 3 tweets · 2 Apr 2015
This reminds me of Lippmann's "The Phantom Public". Has anyone turned his suggestions into a guide to deciding when to get involved? @lessig
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Citizens might despair less given a sense of which fights are worth picking, independent of mass media. @lessig