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"I get the feeling this guy takes Star Wars (and probably himself) just a little worryingly seriously."

I was thinking the same thing, but he restores some perspective when he says,

"Does entertainment have to have an outcome? We were doing it for fun."

But it also seems that, for Brin, Democracy is an unassailable good, and pointing out its shortcomings might be a little bit evil.

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Or perhaps he sees democracy as imperiled and in need of defending. In that view, efforts to undermine the public's confidence in democracy could be seen as evil.

That point of view is very helpful to every violent hierarchy that hides behind the language of democracy and liberty.

Only if by undermining democracy you mean undermining the word itself. Teaching people that the people cannot govern themselves, that democratic institutions cannot be trusted, and that leaders are born, rather than elected, are all helpful to authoritarians and harmful to actual democracy.

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