Death of Democracy

No, it’s not the aristocracy which kills democracy…

it can be everyone.

Yes, aristocracy is a cancer – reducing the efficiency of a body for the own profit – but like cancer it is not viable on its own, because the self-imposed isolation of the “elites” leads to loss of reality, both in mind and in body. The first is based on the “buffer” of servants around them, forced to bear the consequences of wrong decisions of their masters – therefore “preventing” them from learning – and the second is based on the reduced gene pool of the “uber-human” aristocrats. So the first leads to more and more maladjusted activities, the second to inbreeding and after a while, revolutions or younger aristocrats of other societies will remedy those social deficiencies.

The problem of the democracy is the people themselves...

because the heart and the soul of a democracy is the respect for human dignity. Without respect for human dignity no self-discipline towards the rights of other humans, no voluntary self-restriction just for the sake of others is likely to last for long – and without these self-controlling democracy simply can’t work.

But we are all chimps inside our naked skins...

and chimps are self-focused. Evolutionary developed greed for food and sex controls their life and is directly in conflict with the willing giving up of something for the benefit of others.

So in a democracy each and every person matters in two ways: first as active member to follow the rules and respect the rights of others even though they may be in conflict with the own and second as passive member, as one deserving respect and so deserving this very important and actually very tought requirement of sacrifices.

And now look in the mirror, look around you...

how many people do you know who are just stupid or sociopathic? Who don’t care about anything else than their own little lives, who trampels on other peoples rights or feelings with perfect regularity, who loves to play bargain hunters without considering where the bargains come from and who was fired, whose home is poisoned and whose children are forced to work 16 hours, who steals and rapes as soon as avoiding of punishment seems possible?

You know many of them? A few of them, usually the more intelligent socially disabled, favored by luck or simply by the ignorance of their neigborhood, become rich and powerful, in clear words: awarded for their carelessness, so infiltrating the first decision making levels of egalitarian communities. They are the origin of aristocracies, their wealth and influence the object of admiration, envy and submissiveness.

But the rest? They are the greedy, selfish, even criminal losers, the excuse for any person who has to decide to give up something for someone else – “hey, why should i sacrifice it for them? They will never do it for me!”

And so, greed and selfishness increases and more people’s decency will be challenged.

Your boss in your company? Why should he fight for his staff and risk his career? “Hey, Mr. X or Ms. Y is only a shirker, lazy and lying!”

Your doctor caring for your health? Why should he defend you against the health insurance companies when you burn your candle at both ends just for money or power?

The fish rots from the head – the elites truly are a danger to each and every democracy...

as Aldous Huxley said:

BRAVE NEW WORLD REVISITED:
But the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more. "Lead us not into temptation," we pray -- and with good reason; for when human beings are tempted too enticingly or too long, they generally yield.”

but the biggest danger are the 10-15% stupid or sociopathic people, who are not even willing to be worth the respect, which is the foundation of all relationships...

relationships over time, distance or differences, needing respect and self-discipline...

but those 10-15% don’t care about others, neither their well-being nor their respect – they simply are not able to be part of a democracy, of a “wise crowd”...

au contraire...

they turn wise crowds into mobs, democracies into aristocracies, where the lives of others is just something to get profits from...

where Zivilcourage, the bravery which allows a person to do the decent thing, isn’t even a known word...