Max Weber
“If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows”. This line, of Fallout New Vegas’ Mr House, is quite the rhetorical statement. After all, the player can only ponder in shock, whether the destitution of the radioactive wasteland that Fallout New Vegas takes place in is the result of representative government. Is it? What are the shortcomings of democracy, and why does it seem that democracies, despite being, as Churchill put it, “the worst form of government except all those that have been tried”, seem to sometimes yield such unsatisfactory results? Perhaps it has nothing to do with the form of government itself, but like in many such cases, the corruptibility, irrationality, and blindness of human tendencies
