I think, of anything, the most sound system of government, of every type of economy, be it monetary or artistic, material or spiritual, is a Democracy type system: but in the flesh, it will never work. As we are, it will never work.
This makes it is the most dangerous, destructive system possible. But, there is nothing we can do about it, because this is the best we can do.
You can do something better, however: hope for the unseen, for something better, a higher state of being. Something we literally can not see yet. (Morrison).
‘Despair ye mighty’, we shall say, one day, of Democracy and this modern world. (Byron).
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2 responses to “Democracy and Related Concepts the Way to the Future?”
By that metric, no system will ever work.
So in an imperfect world we have to go with the best imperfect system that has ever been found to date: a democratic free-market system recognizing the sanctity of the individual, as we have in the West.
It’s imbued sufficient rights on the individual to produce a system that has made drastic inroad into reducing world abject poverty . . . by 50% just between 2000 and 2013.
It has its flaws. Most critical seems to be the same flaws the ancient Egyptians, the enuma elish and the Christian Bible outline: that Order coming forth out of the primordial Chaos creates habitable space, but that such Order is prone to the corruption of self-blindness resulting in that “Order” being chopped up and evil ruling . . . unless “a hero” of sufficient light and vision can constantly rejuvenate the system unto continued functionality.
Oh, and that the nature of any “value” is to create hierarchies of competence for said value and that people don’t just climb up, they fall down the hierarchies and become dispossessed.
I’m not sure by what metric you’re trying to classify this system as “the most dangerous and destructive possible” — unless you are speaking of things like nuclear bombs, one of our creations gaining sentience and destroying us, or eugenics. But let’s remember that any system that gains power and riches starts down this path.
And there have been almost entirely toxic and destructive experiments like collectivist marxism that have, in very short order, produced concentrated atrocity upon everyone who endorsed them save for a ludicrously-small elect group. (But then the social experiment that supported them collapsed in just a few decades, so it turns out it was destructive upon them too!).
What we currently have, despite its problems, is the best we’ve achieved in all recorded Human History.
@griz can you go into detail on what you mean by hierarchies of competence?
On US, yes, it is the best of it, but there are elements that are the worst of it. I hate communism, islamism, nazism, tyranny… but we have a real tyranny here next to the woman clothed with the sun. Those negative elements will destroy themselves, however. Best to just stay back.
Take up to the mountains.
Not that you aren’t.
I think everyone here sees those bad elements. It is a product of the strong forces of the world in society operating like a singular entity, a chaotic force of destruction not possible in more simple forms of tyranny.