Yekaterina Duntsova, a former journalist and city councillor campaigning for peace and "democratic processes", was rejected by the Russian Central Electoral Committee as a potential candidate due to "errors in documents".
There are gradations. Most likely in your country the elections are more real than in Russia.
I’m talking about the reason that ritual even exists, and the effect it has.
Instead of imprisoning people it’s more efficient to allow them to imprison themselves.
Some random Russian middle-age school teacher just goes on with their not particularly happy life because 1) they think they should limit themselves and everybody is doing that and 2) they think they’ve taken an obligation, as imperfect as the process may be.
Medieval monarchs had their subjects swear oaths for a reason, even though the supporting layer would be jails and gallows.
Humans are not rational beings. We do not act on universal principles. We act on instincts.
All this is intended to persuade “subjects” to control themselves and “sheriffs” (which are a crowd too, state apparatus is too big a thing to be attributed conscious goals at ruling a country) to think that their position is safe.
I was very unhappy until I realized this, in many areas of life.
There are gradations. Most likely in your country the elections are more real than in Russia.
I’m talking about the reason that ritual even exists, and the effect it has.
Instead of imprisoning people it’s more efficient to allow them to imprison themselves.
Some random Russian middle-age school teacher just goes on with their not particularly happy life because 1) they think they should limit themselves and everybody is doing that and 2) they think they’ve taken an obligation, as imperfect as the process may be.
Medieval monarchs had their subjects swear oaths for a reason, even though the supporting layer would be jails and gallows.
Humans are not rational beings. We do not act on universal principles. We act on instincts.
All this is intended to persuade “subjects” to control themselves and “sheriffs” (which are a crowd too, state apparatus is too big a thing to be attributed conscious goals at ruling a country) to think that their position is safe.
I was very unhappy until I realized this, in many areas of life.