Monday, June 25, 2012

No one doubts the many problems that arise from language use. Words express different degrees of clarity.Some high level abstractions are so elusive that anyone can claim belief in a point of view, or adherence to some activity as well as unbelief and non-adherence.Of course, the word "democracy" is such a word. In other words,a person at the Top as well as a person at the Bottom of triadic government can agree or disagree about the democratic nature of some activity,program or policy.This fact makes the practice of democracy nebulous in some areas. Of course, this fact doesn't apply to all cases of its use. But, there are some areas where the undemocratic nature of the activity, program, or policy clearly stands out.Most of these cases are where the policy, activity or program applies to everyone without exception. Why is that the case? Again, the language purports to corresspond to reality when in fact it does not.When a law states every person is free and equal, it means everyone! But since there is no correspondence between its use and the actual situation, every individual is not included. Why? Because of the multi-ordinality of many words and the categories and sub-catagories created to restructure the use of the term to apply to some particular case.In using number with the implementation of the term, it becomes more accurate. The reason is that number is number and will always be the same.It will not change. If we consider the Bottom of triadic government as including all the people and the term "democracy" to mean a people government, we have to include all the people. As number, democracy would be every individual without exception. Of course, some categorization would be necessary to apply to conversations and talk about the form of government and to distinguish that from the application of democratic laws, programs and policies to all the people.

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