>in the next several hundred years doesn't make it not worth using.
A decade before my grandfather was born the area of my country was part of the Russian empire.
He was born into a democratic republic that turned into an autocracy while he was a child.
When he became a teenager the country was occupied by the Soviet Union, then the nazis, then the Soviet Union again. That last one lasted for 50 years during which he was sent to a gulag camp.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed and the country became a democratic republic again.
And now war seems to be on the horizon and the country might end up as part of a new Russian empire again. Probably won't, but the possibility exists.
Modern democracies are young. The US is the odd one by being so old without changing the form of its government.
Edit: the country also joined the EU, which took some sovereignty away, but I think this is a minor thing.
As citizen in France, we also had an old democracy. Under Nazi Germany occupation it took no time for the ruling party to oppress ennemies of the state. Jews were hunted down using the National n database of names and addresses.
I do view technology as a double edged sword for the freedom of the people.
A decade before my grandfather was born the area of my country was part of the Russian empire.
He was born into a democratic republic that turned into an autocracy while he was a child.
When he became a teenager the country was occupied by the Soviet Union, then the nazis, then the Soviet Union again. That last one lasted for 50 years during which he was sent to a gulag camp.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed and the country became a democratic republic again.
And now war seems to be on the horizon and the country might end up as part of a new Russian empire again. Probably won't, but the possibility exists.
Modern democracies are young. The US is the odd one by being so old without changing the form of its government.
Edit: the country also joined the EU, which took some sovereignty away, but I think this is a minor thing.