We all heard so much about infantile masses, of an ability to hide in  the anonymous mass – in a word: the first association we tend to get  when we think in terms of mass man is irresponsibility. However, rarely  do we hear anything about equally deprived mass responsibility; rarely,  of course, except on Kali Tribune.

In this podcast we’ll address the subject of the flip side of popular  power – popular responsibility as exemplified by idea, prevalent among  the masses, that every problem and indeed everything occurring in this  world is due to man or, more  precisely, average man.

To demonstrate the absurdity of this notion and some of its possible  roots, we’ll employ the help Joseph de Maistre, with the special focus  on ideas from his essay On the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions, most eminently his insight into impossibility of creating the a priori legislature and the inferiority of written, i.e. systematized, laws and the impossibility of sovereignty coming  from below.

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