Imagine a country in political turmoil, with streets filled with chanting voices and smartphones buzzing louder than loudspeakers. Now imagine the same country seeing its interim Prime Minister rise not from parliament’s hushed corridors, but from heated debates, memes, and polls on Discord servers. Sounds like a scene from a dystopian Netflix series? Welcome to Nepal in 2025, where Nepal’s government chosen on Discord.
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The word mobocracy may sound like a political insult hurled during heated debates, but it has deeper historical, philosophical, and contemporary weight. Sometimes described as ochlocracy (from the Greek ochlos meaning mob, and kratos meaning rule), mobocracy refers to a form of governance where decisions are driven by the passion, impulses, and emotions of crowds rather than by laws, institutions, or rational debate.
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