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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.
- (*2) Notable in this scenario, however, is that
except for eventual human influence, the environments of such vertebrates
reflect a certain 'dynamic
stability' during their various evolutions and diasporations into their
econiche/environments -natural selection, and geological and other natural
processes withstanding.
Man, however, has advanced in intellectual such way as to 'technologically improve
lifestyle and quality of life beyond mere warm-blooded origins' -but not yet
enough to see such 'improvement' under (natural) Democracy, 'the (naturally)
best form of government', as at the profound expense of [such] dynamic
sustainability and continuing quality of life.
-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
1 - In a very basic sense, all vertebrates -and humans so far, live more
or less 'existential'
lives:
The individual is 'born in ignorance', and is then generally cared-for -within
some group of others like itself, into some kind of relatively adult
independence and reproductive association parlaying the same whole process
forward in time again.
There is no 'government', so to speak; there is only (a) 'the democracy
of each individual doing the best it can for itself' within its taxonomic
configuration-space and (b) 'the pecking order intrinsic of
sexual reproduction' underlying warm-blooded vertebrate evolution in
general.
2 - There are typically three successive and overlapping inhabitational
stages attaching 'a new organism surviving into an econiche' -
diasporative: the new organism proliferating into some 'essentially new'
econiche-whole dynamic; saturative: the organism overpopulating what the
econiche can support of it, and -organism population receding consequently,
stable: manifesting 'the dynamic stability of classical econiche
biologies'-
(-from The Unemployability
Conjecture)
-stable, that is -typically, without much corruption(*2) of that 'dynamic stability of classical, econiche
biologies'.
3 - Deliberative
capability is a uniquely human property which generally operates to
'successively higher-order registration of and deliberable response to
successively higher-order relationals of the
configuration-space' -the physiological residence of which we call
'knowledge'.
- [-knowledge, the nature of which is an evolving assemblage
of experiences -but the integrity of which is a function of the dimensionality of its
assimilated relationals and its non-ambiguities as a
whole.]
Necessarily then, the evolution of knowledge began with relationals most
closely related to man's origins as a 'warm-blooded, merely cerebrating
vertebrate'.
And for the greater part of man's existence so far then, life has
continued to be fundamentally 'existential' in nature
-etiological 'naturalness of democracy' prevailing in the absence of
countervail of any kind -absence of unsustainability in particular.
Pecking order accordingly
intact then, 'democracy' continues to be 'the best form of government' for
greater humanity because greater humanity has yet to experience and learn from
the unsustainable consequences of saturation -only a matter of time, in
other words, before man discovers that democracy is not only not
the best form of government for man, but is, in fact, ineluctably to vestigialize
under knowledge inevitably growing and evolving toward that end.
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June 1, 2009; last updated June 9, 2010
San Pedro CA
*3 -
"Leaving Congress, Physicist Bill Foster Calls for Reinforcements
A month after losing his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives,
physicist-turned-lawmaker Bill Foster has a parting message for his fellow
scientists: Replace me in Congress. And he's eager to help them do it."
-SCIENCE VOL 330 17 DECEMBER 2010
-Geneticist J. Craig Venter -60 Minutes -November 22, 2010
"We don't have too many choices now. We are a society that is one hundred
percent dependent on science. We're going to go up in our population in the
next 40 years; we can't deal with the population we have without destroying our
environment."
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