Thursday, June 20, 2013

Values of Land, Gold, and Oil unified the 'old world' into one vast planetary world. Now, the electro-magnetic spectrum has made the planet more 'intact' and has connected everything closer together. Now, we can communicate on a personal level as well as on a political level. The political level is ideologically different. Can there be consensus and agreement across National political boundaries even if it's just to live together peaceably? Individual political difference and cultural difference can and should be protected even while there is some agreement on some aspects of 'peaceably living together' on the same planet. Its only right that any and all Nations should insist on their individual political and cultural differences and identities. Where, then do we go for some common element to help bring different peoples, different cultures, and different political identities together? It certainly cannot be an economic value. Economic value or capitalism is motored by profits and the struggle to upstage the Other. Capitalism is adversarial from its inception. There can be no economy and no capitalism without competition and competition is just another word for deconstruction. Call it what you like, but competition is just deconstruction on the level of the adversary and the level of the economy. So, is that bad? Absolutely not! Not for the economy. We need healthy competition. But can an individual compete with a huge corporation. Hell no! So, the smaller parts of our economy may still have a healthy competition, but the big corporations, at the top, still control the 'small' at the bottom. Hence we cannot look at the economy to furnish us with some binding values for the unification of the peoples of the world. The problem has to be perceived from the individual perspective. What does the individual human condition possess that is common to it, regardless a Nations political identity and its cultural difference? We have to look for a political system that incorporates into its structure the common values of the human condition. The answer is the democratic form. A government "of People", "by People" and "for People". People are people. Their Freedom and Equality is a universal quality of life that brings together every living human being within all political systems. The Freedom and Equality of each individual is what can unify us into a human race. we cannot be 'governed' by economic values; only by democratic values.

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