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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