If only real public forums worked like they do in Evil Does Not Exist.
’s Jeremy Strong, discovers that the natural springs on which the town depends for its livelihood have become contaminated with waste from the local tannery. As a result, the people who travel for days to bathe in the town’s waters for their health have instead been sickened by them.
In theory, a community meeting is democracy in its essence, the way the ancient Greeks did it. In practice, it’s messy at best, and infuriating at worst, a forum for NIMBYs and book-banners to shout down more moderate voices until they get their way. Sometimes, especially in fiction, there’s a lone voice of reason who overwhelms everyone with their command of the facts.
But more often, that lone voice ends up like the good doctor, quivering on the floor as angry villagers cover him in filth. Not even–esque traveling salesman who sells her fellow Springfieldians on the idea of an extremely expensive monorail. “But Main Street’s still all cracked and broken!” she cries. “Sorry, Mom,” Bart retorts. “The mob has spoken.
Maybe, after years of watching people turn every public forum into an audition for social-media stardom, it’s just a balm to watch the process work the way it’s meant to, with people arguing toward a common goal rather than simply wearing their opponents down to a nub. Life’s dramatic enough as it
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