Understanding Democracy
By Leo Gura - June 29, 2020 | 3 Comments
A deep exploration of the origins and challenges of democracy.
Am I the only one here? Anyway, thanks for the video Leo. I like entertaining your perspectives, and it sparks my curiosity. Thanks for the course too, it was pretty inspiring and helpful. Been about a year since I completed it. I think I might want to go back and refresh sometime, but I’m on the path. Much to learn. Much to experience and explore.
Wilhelm says: This video has helped me to see myself more as part of a group. Makes me want to appreciate my need for other people a bit more. I have been putting individualism somewhat on a pedestal so far but it seems to be a construct that only has been made possible by a stage orange civilisation. Our stage orange rules allow millions of people to cooperate in selfish capitalist ways – mostly to our mutual benefit – and because those people mostly follow their own self-interest they think of themselves as individuals – but they are totally dependent on society.
I still struggle to understand people with a pre-democratic consciousness. For instance, I just can not wrap my mind around the fact that many Chinese people apparently do not want freedom. How can you not want freedom of speech? How can it be that you have nothing to say? Nothing to believe? Nothing that requires civil rights in order to do it? There is still a lot to learn and to understand.
Maxiwrong says: Democracy or authoritarian policy leads the folks to this particular difficulty: sugar, sales of average quality goods, lollies, noodles or traditional food of the land, reading of books (I can explain that’s bad) which if you were educated you wouldn’t need this pseudo-reality in books and fictional books, something’s wrong big time, this book smarts is bad because if you’re so smart you never need to learn again, I might seem anti-intellectual in this regard but after learning to become a Puritan you wouldn’t need to learn, you’ll be equipped with its wisdom etc etc, our current democracy is teaching students not only how to read but also to be taking books and reading on our own, I think the books should be put down unless it’s on spiritual things like living and dying or experiences maybe, or secular things like philosophical books, but not all your life, when otherwise reading books would be unnecessary, I mean the Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere’s democracy, it’s all the same, it’s wise to read “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying” regardless of religion or lack thereof because you live and die like everybody else, and that means you need to meditate on your death, democratic societies don’t care about these unmarketed gems, and they only care about the survival of the state, in USA they have a great life in democratic societies, not in the Southern hemisphere, where there’s even a tax on wine, cheap wine prices are going up, given all this it’s a dick move, as for myself I’m puritanical again and I don’t think anything but divine law will keep folks in line and prevent a disorderly society, what we have is a lot of chaos as I bring chaos in every establishment I’m in and I don’t follow the rules of correctional or mental health centres and facilities, I was a renegade from the very beginning, democracy here is running persons with disabilities, ahem, schizophrenic, that doesn’t mean I don’t know these wise things, I’m not some fool being exposed to reproval by the mob, going on discussing things with strife like an elderly woman high school teacher, strife is a sin, and nobody has that right according to God, if you think this is some cool stuff drinking wine, well then, it is, since wine somehow feeds the mind with the blood of Christ, therefore alcohol’s not an issue, I can certainly drink Scotch whisky if I want to, the richer-tasting liquors, like rum, whiskey, cider, wine, and gin would be appropriate, it’s American and you know it.