These are the early days, the infancy
of (real) Democracy, (real) equality wherein we the people are learning how to
cooperate in directing our words and deeds to create solutions that are best
for all.
The participation of each human being
in forming this world has always been real-time. What has been lagging behind
is a comprehensive understanding of how we participate in what we are all
creating.
This is now changing, trending
towards real-time feed-back (via information/communications technology of the
Internet) providing us with an increasingly detailed map of the relationship
lines of the cause and effect of our direct and indirect participation within
and as the world system.
In essence, what we are now being
presented with is one Hell of an opportunity to in seeing the design/schematics
(the interconnectedness of the current world system), understand how it
functions and then redesign it to one that is supportive for all, the goal
being equality within what is best for all.
The path to understanding and living
(real) Democracy, (real) Equality will be as easy or as difficult as we
individually and collectively make it. We are the world within and as the
relationships we accept and allow; therefore, to change the world is to change
ourselves, stand up and participate so as to become the change that we are
becoming.
In other words, each one of us is an
equal-life component as a determinate of the manifested collective/whole of
humanity. Therefore, if we disagree with the way the world-system currently
works (which I for one do), all we require to-do to change the way it works is
to change ourselves as the system. Specifically, in changing the way we
ourselves relate to all parts of the system, we as the system change the system
to our new collective specifications.
As a principled standing, I vote we
create a system based on the principles of oneness and equality within what is
best for all. However, one vote does not a collective decision make, and this
is one of the really cool functions of what we are becoming aware of and so
co-creating, our collective destiny. Be it an eternal living hell for all or an
equal opportunity for all to live dignified lives, we are all equally
responsible for determining and so creating the new world.
Democracy as the collective
expression of Equality requires participation, and this is exactly what I have
been seeing in its infancy on the world stage, people collectively standing and
participating in directing world events. Our degree of progress is reflected in
the changes taking place throughout the world that are clearly aligned to the
directive participation or collective will of the people.
For example, recall the events
leading up to the United States’ impending attack on Syria, and the buildup of
the collective directive of millions of Netizens united in the stand of “do not
attack Syria.” Some would say that the US backed off due to Vladimir Putin and
his military standing, alone. To this, I say that one man is not responsible
nor able to determine the outcome of all of mankind; however he or she is able
to lead and/or direct the power of the people, either through mass
participation or mass abdication of people power. In that instance, the
people-power or participatory stand of the masses of “Do not attack Syria!” was
a collective directive, an example of the democratic “people power,”
participatory Democracy in its infancy, channeled to and through Vladimir Putin
for him to carry out that directive, which he did.
How do I figure all this? Of course
it's just guesses, theories of dots and their relationships to outcomes. In the
future, perhaps soon on the path to Direct Democracy, we will no longer need to
guess, because we'll all have equal access to all information.
To change the system of hierarchical
power and control of Money to a system of Democracy/Equality, we the people
require we stand up and do it, become what we are becoming, self directed, caring
for all.
