The disease-ridden heart of Democracy

Jordan B. Peterson, a psychology professor at University of Toronto recently and precisely wrote, “It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city." Yet we live in a society where every citizen determines each election cycle to rule others with full force of government by one's preference and vote. Upon election win, the voting majority care little to nothing for the losers, even gloat while arrogantly presuming a better society shaped by their mere preference. The voting minority are no better, for immediately there arises intense covetousness of the winners' newly acquired power, with the ardent intent to seize it the following election.

Such is the disease-ridden heart of Democracy, sickened by the carcinogenic isms (save one) hailed as cures per medicine-show charlatans otherwise revered as politicians, bureaucrats, judiciaries, generals, reverence enforced by well propagandized agents, soldiers, and police officers.

I recently, perhaps mistakenly aligned with a small polity, assuming a loftier alternative, but soon realized their intent to seize power, against the will and consent of the "losers", was inherently no better regardless the noble goal. Martin Luther King Jr., pastor, orator, activist and man of peace, was quite right when he eloquently articulated, "In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends." As he later concisely put it, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that."

Note(1):
Often I follow the word "isms" with the parenthesized "save one". It is assumed one is aware of my greater ongoing, seemingly endless thesis and emphasis on Individualism. Empirically, praxeologically it is simply, rightly defined by the consistent regard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, inseparably a constant respect for the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason. Other definitions have led to erroneous arguments and conclusions.

Note(2):
By some of these posts, you are reading drafts for my follow-up book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, Singular Human Right to Consent & Other Neglected Matters.

Come let us Reason (Is 1:18). Peace is always a Choice (Mt 5:9).

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23).