Richard David Precht and Harald Welzer: How a Mediocracy Generates Missing Dissent
“Four or five different talk shows alone in the first two programs of the public broadcasters have to be filled with controversial topics every week; where is so much dissent supposed to come from in a mediocracy trimmed for smartness? And the less edges and corners the political class shows today, the more wedges have to be driven somewhere, alleged frictions made public and polarizations claimed; as if dissent and discussion in the parties of a liberal democracy were not vital, but a worrying sign of weakness.”
– Richard David Precht and Harald Welzer in their book “The Fourth Power – How Majority Opinion is Made, Even If It Is Not.”, S. Fischer Verlag, pages 122/123