On 2006-07-11 09:08, darkrezin wrote:
I....don't have a blind belief that democracy is automatically good.
I think that democracy is good if exercised, and it's just a result of history, it's not a value nor something that can be "brought". Consciousness and awareness are the qualities that can make it real and make people act because they feel they have gained the right to it.
There is a big cultural battle in western societies between those who want to keep contact with reality even if painful because they like to hope for a society where people help each other and are not blinded by irrational fears and divisions and those who can't stand the weight of such a responsibility and help themselves with illusions and magical thoughts (reality shows and the lust for money are the newest, thinking to belong to a better race or to have an exclusive and preferential contact with superior forces are the oldest, but the psychological mechanisms are identical).
I don't say that spirituality is not important and not a beautiful thing, for many people it is so, but I think that for each job there are appropriate tools, and you can't convince a greedy bastard war lord with your kindness, you have to exercise that little power that democracy gives to you to connect with others like you and pull the carpet under the feet of these people.
Democracy is a tool, because, if you notice, every power needs consensus, so many efforts are put, for example, to induce fear of the muslims to the western populations in order to make easy to accept that awful horrors like Guantanamo happen without any good hearted Alfonso or Eliam or Jimmy being everyday in the streets demostrating against it, or worst, not voting them or, worst than ever "not buying"!!!
Well I simply don't like that "High Forces of Love" are asked to do the job that we all should do, because is this that I suspect that really happens for most of us, and it's what for sure the power elites try to induce and to diffuse with their organized churches and idols.
If I don't feel to commit personally to peace with all the taking of responsibility it requires, that's fine, but demanding everything to superior forces is not moral for me.
Meditate and get a better person talking with your gods if you believe so, this is wonderful, but if you want to fight the war you have to pay something of your own life, you must use the same tools that an atheist would, because you have to be together for this purpose, an use the practical tools you have, democracy is one of those.
It costs though.
