Abstrakt
This paper draws on Deutsch's communication theory and reformulates it by stating six abilities of political systems, which must be met in order for them to be viable. They are the creation, reception and processing of information, as well as creation and application of decisions based on this information and their reflection of these decisions.
This paper further explores how totalitarian systems communicate and compares this to communication flows of democratic systems. It identifies totalitarian systems as inherently malign and identifies latent communication failures in democratic systems as well.
It illustrates this point on the examples of political correctness and framing. In its final part this paper addresses a current mistrust in institutions and ascribes it to increased information flows in the past two decades.
It concludes that current institutions need to undergo a significant reformulation in order for them to prevail.