Appendix: Natural Rights and Freedoms and Constraint by Dirigiste Heurism(*1) Link to Human Nature and Continuing Human Existence Great Youtube rant! COMMENTS? |
1 - 'Democracy is an artifact of (thus-far) intellectual development' -a fact of biological and anthropological sciences. 2 - Genetic imperative drives the life-form to 'live as long as possible as a life-form' -human in particular here -a same such fact. 3 - Science (and mathematics), therefore, is ineluctably 'stuck' as the only agency of such doing -destined therein. 4 - All 'government and economics', then, will inevitably come to be reconstituted about science-and-mathematics toward that heuristic end -Democracy included. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shouldn't we be looking at this for what it means to the future of democracy?(*3) |
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'Believers' generally believe that 'Democracy is the best form of government'
because -for the most part, everyone sees his own and life about him generally
'improving' along with
the 'freedom' to do whatever he thinks 'best for himself and his loved
ones' toward that same end
-those at the top most
certainly, and those at the
'bottom of the pile' too.
-But if 'democracy is an artifact of intellectual development', then its
'bestness' too, is merely artifactual belief, so
how did this situation come about?
Our 'natural rights and freedoms', it turns out, are the 'natural rights and
freedoms' of our 'warm-blooded cerebrating vertebrate' evolutionary origins
-prohominids included.
Thus given varying degrees of natural congregationality more or less
genetically intrinsic a species, we see that all such vertebrates are more or
less 'naturally free to be and do' what it is their 'taxonomic wont to be and do'
-'natural rights and freedoms' of a sort (below) -subject, in general, to some
kind of pecking order.
Democracy, then, reflects the influence and consequences of eventually
evolving, uniquely human deliberative capability in
the thus-far evolution of successively still higher-order,
congregationally more complex relationships and operations -'knowledge' and
'technological and organizational advances' -'economic growth' and 'government'
therein.
-There is, in other words, a certain and limited 'naturalness' to 'natural rights and freedoms' -and therefore to its thus-far
'inherent democracy' too.
-And given the 'substantive immateriality' of democracy then, there is no reason to believe either that it is 'the best form of government' or that it will not evolve into something 'better'.
Same Material -Differently Stated |
Democracy in Action! Voter: I don't want other people making decisions for me! DH: But what if you don't know anything about it? Voter: But I have something to say about it! DH: But what if you don't know anything about it? Voter: I don't care! I have something to say about it! |
When not sleeping or being driven by hunger or sex, warm-blooded vertebrates
typically exhibit an '
idle-mind state' during which they are more or less observing and perhaps
'assimilating' various phenomena in the world about them.
And "the 'idle-mind state' [then] is the state of potential occupation
'out' of which deliberative
capability operates in the generation of 'knowledge'. ... The 'idle-mind
state' in this respect, goes unappreciated for the fact of its
transiency -that it is occupied immediately by anything from
'physiologically internal' to whatever situation circumstance happens to
present -'naturally, deliberately and/or serendipitously' ..." (-from Kernel Properties of The Hominid Organism
Observations-
2 - So determined then-
3 - And 'the arts', then -like mathematics, are integral to the
evolution of knowledge -as, for example-
4 - And the question then is not of one's 'right to doodle' -or dawdle,
for that matter, but of how his 'self-indulgence' meets genetic imperative;
thus, further still and determined solely by dirigiste heurism, we also have the principle that
No one is arbitrarily anyone else's to do with as he chooses. [The reader is cautioned to understand the implications of dirigiste heurism before leaping to conclusions.] |
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