What is the human condition?

The individual is the essence of democracy and the human condition is the essence of the individual. Each individual is 'sacred' or, better yet, each individual is a mystery. Why a mystery? Because we have attempted to define and describe, by different means, what it means to be human. We have developed Psychologies, Philosophies, Sciences, Theologies, literature, Poetry, and many other disciplines and what have we come up with? Each discipline has a limited explanation within its own paradigm; one that usually excludes the limited explanation of the other disciplines. They can't even agree that we are all members of the same human race. They always apply a different criteria to the Other. They never agree. Can we say that we just don't know the answer? I certainly don't have a descriptive answer, but I can tell you that both, you and I, are an expression of the human condition and no one is going to tell me or you, that we are not like Other humans. We are Free humans and we are Equal humans. End of story! Of course, there will be differences, but not in the human condition. Maybe in possessions, money, property, prosperity, social status, and other cultural artifacts, but certainly not in our humanity. Another difference is the so-called 'political difference' that exists in the different Nations. Sure, we're born into a Nation that allows certain things that other Nations don't allow. But, all Nations are what they are because the People allow it. Leaders don't 'possess' power, leaders have been 'granted power' by the People. Whether the 'grant' of power was institutional and intentional, as in a democracy, or whether it arose through some default or neglect, political leaders are in positions of power because the People are allowing it. Truly, real strength is in Numbers and not in 'institutional power'. The mystery of life at the bottom of all political structures is what life is all about and no one can hold that back.