Democracy: the Flaw
By Caspar de Rijk, Ph E.
Democracy
has given us inflation and income tax, so what have we learned from our
experience? A democracy run by
scrupelous people or politicians, corporations* which are solely responsible for
the bottomline i.e. or obsessed with money and profit ideas evidently results
in a democratic society obsessed with money.
Democracy
is an idea, indeed a better idea than many other political or organizational
alternatives. Yet we do not find democracy in the business world. Why is it not
used there if it is such a succesful model? Think about it.
Is it,
as many executives say that you never get anything done if a business were run
by democratic principle. Examine history carefully and you may come to the same
conclusion as I did. The only flaw in the ideal of democracy is the hidden
aspect of mind control, dishonesty and propaganda, misleading others by
spreading false data. There are no safeguards built into the democratic
concept. This means in practice anno 2009 that democracy has been caught up by
the criminals who intend to use it to usurp power and control by covert means.
We have seen how this works organizations like local party politics as well as
outfits like NSA, CIA, 9/11 cabals etc.
All this happened in the democratic Western world!
Democracy by dictionary means:
1.
Government by the
people exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
2.
A political or
social unit that has such a government.
3.
The common people,
considered as the primary source of political power.
4.
Majority rule.
5.
The principles of
social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
[French démocratie,
from Late Latin dēmocratia, from Greek dēmokratiā: dēmos,
people + -kratiā, -cracy.]
There is
nothing intrinsically wrong with any of these definitions. What is wrong is not
expressed. Something that is not there is not easily seen.
So what is
the omission? Let’s take definition #1 The full definition which would work is
“A government by the people for all the people” Note the omission of “…for all
the people”.
Steve K.
Moyer** has covered this beautifully in his conception of the Spiritual Economy
in which he points out what we need is applied virtues.
Definition #
4 Majority Rule is probably the worst culprit and should have been unanymous
support or agreement in other words: consensus.
Let’s look at
what is really consensus.
1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole
2. General agreement or accord: government by consensus.
[Latin cōnsēnsus, from past participle of cōnsentīre, to agree]
So
here we are to reach an agreement that would be agreeable to all people, which
many say is impossible. And they are right. If one has fixed ideas such as for
example: “ wars are inevitable”,
“taxation always increases”, “money is all” or “ I have to fight for my
survival”, “there exists only one truth, mine!”, it is virtually impossible to
achieve actual consensus. There is much
more to this but that is a subject in itself i.e. reality (agreement) vs
truth.
The
level of smartness and intelligence required to make proposals that are sound
for ALL PEOPLE is considerable. Why wasn’t it done? One reason is that mankind
was not really in touch and in-communication internally lots of lying
go-betweens that would profit from a few lies to gain an advantage.
Imagine
an American president being paid by the oil industry, doing all to defend its
interests and of course lacking virtues, would not see anything wrong with
killing a few to obtain righteous compliance – all this while praying to God in
Sunday Services. It has been said that the most important zone of ethical
behaviour is the top hierarchy and it is kinda obvious, witness our various
Enrons and other present time evidence like the irresponsible bailout lies by politicians.
In
other words a democracy without virtues - and we may include intelligence as a
virtue as well – results in the power of the people being used for the benefit
of the few or even a majority of the people (defined as 51%) and often to the detriment of the other half
or lesser minorities. How intelligent a proposal must be to be acceptable to
mankind as a whole, just think of that.
So I
propose a new and more precise definition of democracy as follows:
Democracy is the social order and form
of ‘political’ organization that uses the power of the people for the good of all the people.
In
other words it would be wise for you as an individual to define democracy as a
consensus democracy. Unless you are member of a political party (limited
viewpoint and responsibility), you would also do so, I hope.
References:
* Michael Moore on
corporations;
** Synergy Nation, Steve
K. Moyer
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