Electoral honesty is impossible because projections alter outcomes

Evidence

The audience members imploring Cameron and Miliband to be honest about possible deals were as ingenuous as those who hailed the programme as a triumph of participatory democracy. Neither leader could “be honest” about how the vote is likely to go on Thursday because that very speculation could change what actually happens. Such is the state of our current “democracy”: everything is distorted by media projections, by politicians’ (second) guesses as to how voters may behave in response to those projections, a whole phantom science of feedback. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1786

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the deep point that media projection feedback loops constitute a ‘phantom science’ distorting political reality — adjacent to the structural distortions covered across my broader reading.
• XREF: connects to: Choice among options within a rigged system is not genuine agency

Broader Connections

• Choice among options within a rigged system is not genuine agency #expands (0.78)