Laws Are Like Sausages
As of the time this article is written, we have lived in the age of social media for over twenty years.
LinkedIn, created in 2002, and Facebook, created in 2004, were the first social media platforms.
They have fundamentally changed how we consume information.
The World Wide Web has existed since the 1990s, and the first smartphones have existed since 1992, though they truly became popular when they were developed by the technology company Apple with the launch of the first iPhone in 2007.
The day-to-day impact of these technologies on society is that we are constantly exposed to new information and new forms of interacting with our respective heads of state and legislative houses, such as the American Congress and the UK Parliament.
The issue with this change is that we are exposed to too much of the lawmaking process and the creation of legislation.
The issue is best expressed with the quote from Otto von Bismarck, the famous German Chancellor of the 19th century: “Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.”
When it comes to creating laws, laws are not made for the sake of making laws; they are designed to govern humanity’s imperfections.
