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
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