Friday, January 17, 2014

In governing, the One and the Many became the Top and the Bottom of today

In governing, the One and the Many became the Top and the Bottom. The Bottom is where the People are, and the previous concepts about the One and the Many have been 'clarified' or at least, we have re-situated the 'essence' of the 'condition of togetherness'. Obviously, its not at the Top; its at the Bottom. The essence of 'governing' is not in the same place as in Dictatorship, or in Theocracy. Plutocracy, and Oligarchy are less 'individualized' or 'focused', at the Top, but they are not democratic. But, for some years now, we have had a new 'player' in the neighborhood, and that would be "Information". The Information Society has turned the relation between the Top and the Bottom topsy-turvy. Todays advances are in the 'information sphere' instead of the 'social' or technological spheres. Technology has brought us a long way, but our trajectory, in the direction of knowledge, now goes from manipulations within the 'sphere' of "knowing more and more about less and less", to an incrementally even 'lesser' sphere; that would be 'Information'. What happens to Freedom and Equality? Well, freedom and equality still remain freedom and equality. Within our Constitutional, political system, that will never change. Of course, the system has carved out a category to try to deal with this phenomena; its called the "public sphere" and the "private sphere". The relation of 'governing' is not effected by the information society. That relation is essential to governing and hence the Constitution preserves that relation along with the Freedom and Equality of every individual at the Bottom. The Constitution ensures that we have a democratic structure that governs Free and Equal individuals and is not concerned with 'governing' on an 'information level'. Individuals at the Bottom 'created' an information society, so that's just another thing that has to stay clear of the political structure designed to preserve Democracy. Human beings can never 'work' themselves 'free' of the Constitutional form that 'constitutes' us. Freedom and Equality has Dignity, Integrity, and Divinity.

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