Saturday, February 15, 2014

A Democracy is for all the People

A democratic government is constituted of 'all its People'. No one is left out. All governments also require an economy. Its at this point, in a democracy, where Capitalism enters the picture. 'Capitalism' is the 'structure' given to the economy; it's a separate social 'entity' from the governmental entity. All Governments should be democratic, because that's the only way to 'factually recognize' the 'dependence' of the government structure on the individual. The 'individual' gave rise to government. If we reason in this fashion, we also begin to see that the ascendancy of greed in the economy is attributable to the individual. Individuals used the Freedom and Equality afforded them by democratic government, to then, manipulate the government and the economy to their advantage. An Economy and Capitalism are not greedy, per se, even corporations are not greedy, per se. Its the individuals in the economy and those behind the corporations that are greedy. The individual has found a perfect "legal fiction" to do 'massive economic dirty work' for him/her. Unfortunately, the reason we have greed in the economy is because we have greed in some individuals. There has taken place, a substitution of an economic value, in lieu of a democratic value. How can we eliminate greed in an individual? Actually, we can't. We can only appeal to the recognition of the fact that we must live in a 'condition of togetherness; that's inevitable. A 'condition of togetherness' cannot 'hold' together without the political values of the freedom and equality of each and every individual. Once an individual in a 'condition of togetherness' begins to 'isolate' him/her self from the Others, and begins to 'greedily' amass more and more money and possessions, the condition begins to break down. Heaven helps us, if the 'condition' breaks down and we have 'loose' individuals attempting to be 'more greedy' and 'less democratic'. We bring these things upon ourselves. 'Look around', and 'really' appreciate what 'real individual freedom and equality is', and you will appreciate what 'real' democracy is.

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