Democracy and Tyranny
Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2024 9:11 am
Democracy and Tyranny
We have a serious condition today with ethical-political words or terms. They are not treated holistically, but as a random collections with meanings that suit fashion and personal whimsy. And worse, a collection of such terms may be made by individuals to frame a pseudo ‘philosophy’ employoing such empty terms as ‘woke’.
Democracy in particular is in danger. This can be seen in the USA regarding gun law, which allows almost unlimited ownership of weapons that are far more lethal than those when the Constitution was devised. A modern weapon in the hands of one or a few ‘extreme’ people may one day slaughter hundreds, or a whole body of people.
Most people will agree that Tyranny is directly opposed to Democracy and Freedom. But that term cannot be defined in isolation and must relate holistically using ethical terminology. Tyranny is thus egotistic authority, that demands obedient responsibility. What is loosely termed ‘democracy’ is opposed to that in the term freedom. Democracy being simply freedom from tyranny, without stating what exactly is free and how.
There are two extremes to democracy, as freedom. The same ego as stated relating to tyranny, but here related to the individual in mass. The autonomous indidividual. At its extreme the gun law or absence of law in the USA.
The other extreme of democracy, as freedom, employs the same obedience as tyranny, but as responsibility and essentially to society as corporate individuals. A society is more than the sum of its parts – the individual. And such society naturally has its hierarchy, from the local community be it village or town. Through to the country, and only then to the global society. An holistic local community essentially needing to be protected and sustained and be self-sustaining as may be possible pragmatically.
There are thus three essential forms of state-society, all of which have some virtue in providing the rule of law. Opposed to these three is the chaos and war that is seen today in many parts of the world. Albeit war at times may be needful if some form of democracy is to be protected. We made war on Hitler and did not submit, to what today would be the ultimate tyranny, employing AI.
We have a serious condition today with ethical-political words or terms. They are not treated holistically, but as a random collections with meanings that suit fashion and personal whimsy. And worse, a collection of such terms may be made by individuals to frame a pseudo ‘philosophy’ employoing such empty terms as ‘woke’.
Democracy in particular is in danger. This can be seen in the USA regarding gun law, which allows almost unlimited ownership of weapons that are far more lethal than those when the Constitution was devised. A modern weapon in the hands of one or a few ‘extreme’ people may one day slaughter hundreds, or a whole body of people.
Most people will agree that Tyranny is directly opposed to Democracy and Freedom. But that term cannot be defined in isolation and must relate holistically using ethical terminology. Tyranny is thus egotistic authority, that demands obedient responsibility. What is loosely termed ‘democracy’ is opposed to that in the term freedom. Democracy being simply freedom from tyranny, without stating what exactly is free and how.
There are two extremes to democracy, as freedom. The same ego as stated relating to tyranny, but here related to the individual in mass. The autonomous indidividual. At its extreme the gun law or absence of law in the USA.
The other extreme of democracy, as freedom, employs the same obedience as tyranny, but as responsibility and essentially to society as corporate individuals. A society is more than the sum of its parts – the individual. And such society naturally has its hierarchy, from the local community be it village or town. Through to the country, and only then to the global society. An holistic local community essentially needing to be protected and sustained and be self-sustaining as may be possible pragmatically.
There are thus three essential forms of state-society, all of which have some virtue in providing the rule of law. Opposed to these three is the chaos and war that is seen today in many parts of the world. Albeit war at times may be needful if some form of democracy is to be protected. We made war on Hitler and did not submit, to what today would be the ultimate tyranny, employing AI.