Sunday, November 25, 2018

Real Democracy has nothing to do with Majority Rule

There’s a saying going around, that democracy is a system of majority rule. Who the hell came up with the idea that democracy, real democracy of the people is a system of majority rule or that a people’s democracy even has anything to do with the act of ruling over the people that supposedly make up the democracy? Probably the same ones that inputted the idea that representative democracy was a democracy of, by and for the people as opposed to a democracy (only) of, by and for the representatives themselves - as its name, representative democracy clearly indicates. Really! Who was it that decided that real democracy (of the people) would be defined as the majority (at least 50+ percent of the people ruling over over the remainder of the people? Probably those same ones that pushed the idea that  Earth’s resources given freely unto all could be owned and controlled by a few leaving the majority to compete, argue, fight, kill and die just to survive and sometimes thrive at the expense of others.  Human consciousness has been built on beliefs fortified with hypocrisy, oxymorons and outright denial of the contradictions  presented before us in the words we use, the sentences with which we combine and  are then sentenced by.

OK, without getting too philosophical here (which I do like to do because philosophy doesn’t actually require the solving of any problems, it’s just fun to do, kind of like daydreaming), I know as a knowing that the idea that democracy “of the people” having anything whatsoever to do with rule by the majority or rule by anyone over the people for which the democracy is applied is ridiculous and verifiable invalid. That being said, if 51% isn’t enough to establish realistically the rules for the people of the democracy, then what is or what should be the the rule for establishing rules within the democracy?

If the democracy of life, as the “natural” outflow of what is created (as the aggregate sum total of the participation of all) is how we create all that is here, then why do we even need a system at all? I mean, if  the democracy of life, the essence of the democracy of creation is already handling the mathematics of the flow of creation, then why would we even need reverse engineer it to create an algorithm or something to systematize it, Google? Answer me that question Google AI, do we even know what we’re doing? 

Anyway, getting back to this thorn still sticking in the side of my understanding of democracy within the question of how are we to apply real democracy “of the people” to the world system or any system for that matter. Given that, democracy is a form of collective decision making, wherein the percentage or degree of democracy expressed by the collective is equivalent to the degree by which all members of the collective have the opportunity to participate equally in all of the decisions applied to the collective, the question now arises, how are we actually to determine democratically, in a systematic manner what rules apply to the collective as a whole?

See, if democracy of the people (as opposed to a democracy of representatives)
really were a system of majority rule (which it isn’t), then 51 people of hundred-person collective could legitimately rule over and eat the other 49. This is one of the arguments used against the idea of real democracy by those in favor of oxymoronic notions such as representative democracy with a constitution or the likes to ensure that while the slaves people are indeed ruled over, they are also granted certain rights by their rulers, like the right not to be eaten. Which brings me once again to the question: how do we go about applying democracy (to the highest degree we are able) to the collective as a whole? In other words, how do we reverse engineer the democracy of creation or the democracy of life to formulate it into a system of really, really, really, real democracy to equally accomodate all with the opportunity to equally express themselves within and as the world system of humanity? That’s my question.

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