The New Democracy

Soldiers became rules, discipline became burocracy, but power remained in Western hands

Whatever democracy is, it is related to:

- Power

- Politics

- Voting

So there must be a relation between these 3 notions.

To find out which, ask yourself what you would do if you were about average intelligent and convinced that most people are better off if they would only let you make decisions.

Then to make that view come true you need:

- Power

- A method to get Power (Politics)

- A method to make Power concentration seem honest (Democracy)

To give Democracy a ‘holy’ status, you have to organize it like a religion.

The ‘pope’ in that ‘religion’ is the democratically voted leader.

The ‘gatherings of cardinals’ are his/her legislative organizations.

The ‘churches’ are town houses.

Give formal science the status of ‘inquisition’

Then imagine yourself to be outside this structure. You have a view that could cause a paradigm shift. Only to get it accepted you have to pass the ‘inquisition’ of formal science. There are many links between scientific institutions and legislative organizations. Both may be honest, but see only problems if your view is accepted. The pope is only an elected straw man of a major political organization. And forget about mayors, because these only worry about being elected.

Looking this way a definition of democracy is:

A political system based on equality of body count only, originally designed to keep power relations unchanged

I call the present shape of democracy: 'physical democracy'. Because its voting system is still based on body count, counting tanks or bombs. It is still based on the fact that ages ago an army of thousands of soldiers would beat one of hundreds.
Times changed, and rules replaced the physical army in its role of keeping the people in controll. The result of voting replaced the size of the army. But no essential change.
It's about time to give mind a role too.

Its like white blood cells in bodies. Conservative forces attack any change. As white blood cells first served soldiers and now mainly serve rules. Both are triggered by something being different.
You have to admire this way of evolution to check thoroughly any change. First if an essential change passes all (sometimes frustrating) defenses then it is accepted. Some promising change may by then have been killed, but all possible mistakes too.





But the defense system Democracy itself in its present shape became outdated. It kills too many harmless changes.