about modern democracy

2008 06 06

About modern Democracy
One simple idea that crossed my mind is that from the point of view of equality and good relation between humans we are not inventing something but reintroducing ideas that were obvious to us when we were organized in smaller communities. The tribal organization was the human environment for thousands of years and it was perfect concerning peoples rights and purpose, everything was clear, there were no questions unanswered and everybody was potentially able to take any responsibility.
As we developed in numbers, because of non perfect channels of communication individuals took the opportunity in order to take advantage of other people, some even declared themselves as goods and in any way did their best in making others think less of themselves and look up to him as solutions to their problems. And off course the Machiavelli saying: split in order to conquer.
I have the feeling that right now with the new means of communication we are able to come back to our good sense that we developed in thousands of years living as tribes, and in my personal history our good sense is best cached by the opening of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”