Friday, August 30, 2013
democracy is a political impulse
Democracy is a political impulse and freedom and equality is a human impulse. Democracy can only be 'experienced' among large collections of human beings. Freedom and equality is experienced within the human condition as a separate, 'independent, functioning human impulse' that has its source in human existence; in Life. An 'independent human condition' is an individual and a large collection of individuals, whether by birth or by 'coming together', can be said to exist within a Polity, which should be a Democracy. Why should it be a Democracy? because Democracy is the only 'political arrangement' in which the individual in a condition of the 'the Many', or 'togetherness' can exist in a 'condition of 'fairness' i. e. in an independent condition of political Freedom and Equality. Large collections of individuals, or Nations have every right to an independent political existence. However, they have to interact with their own 'people' as well as with other established independent Nations. Of course, there's a National governing system as well as an International governing system. The National sphere should insure the Freedom and Equality of its inhabitants,( this requires a Democracy) while the International sphere should insure the independent respect of that Nations government. However, the primary concern of any political 'collectivity' should be the Freedom and Equality of its own inhabitants. Why else come together? Every Country, at times, must depend on its 'people' to help defend the Country. There is no other 'political way' to show gratitude towards those people except, at the very least, by guaranteeing their Freedom and Equality. Democracy is the political impulse of Nations while freedom and equality are the impulses of the individual in his/her human condition. Neither can do without the other.
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