"One still can encounter these documentaries on t.v., Master, that speak of democrazy. In one, I was shocked to learn that democrazy was invented and used first by the Greeks!"
"This misconception is well established. You will find also that there is no question of giving a definition of the word, nor of a testing of the Reality against the definition. Thus, it always comes back to name-giving and then assuming that the phenomenon is so obliging as to change itself after the definition. Usually, democrazy means that the people rule, which is majorityrule, therefore a dictatorship of the majority. As one can see in the D.D.R. the German Democratic Republic, it has the name al right, but it is, not a dictatorship of a majority, but of a minority. It is virtually the same as the governments of Belgium, Netherlands, France and so forth, a minority rule, voted for once in the four or five years. As ????? said, the opinion of the citizens does not count a rap."
"Yes Master, and in Old Greece, only half of the citizens could govern, that is, the women not."
"Begad, 50All decisions are as much of concern for them as for all others. Properly calculated, this so-called democrazy in Greece might well have meant a ruling by 10 or 20 per cent of the population, concerned. The desires of 80 or 90 procent did not matter a jota. Russell calmly states the same piece of nonsense in his History. Why not call a spade a spade, and all governements dictatorships? Absolute democracy means actually non-government, no laws and rules, everybody decides for himself there and then. This is inhuman and illegal because many of the decisions have to do with things we share with the whole planetary citizency, energy, pollution, minerals, climate change, forests, animals, etc. etc. The choice, then, remains between a dictatorship of a lottocratically conscripted group, or the dictatorship of the vast majority of ALL world-citizens. This latter, makes only for the total destruction of the planet, the killing of every speck of life on it."