a wonderful thing really, a miracle some might say, the acts resulting in conception, then gestation, through to birth, what grander introduction to democracy could there be
mum and dad make decisions in preparation for offspring (or another child), if the enterprise is well organized this probably starts before conception, mum and dad have conversations about stuff, agree on stuff, make decisions to do with resources variously, to get the job done, and wisely hopefully because it involves a big investment, perhaps the biggest investment couples ever make. There are of course non-couples that have and raise offspring also
but whatever, the democratic miracle happens with conception, after some moment of peak democracy in the hours or days before
possible names for the offspring comes up at some stage, there’s democracy about that also, mum and dad have conversations about what the new life might be called, and they decide among themselves, arrive at a name, so that they can call the new life from a distance and the creature will turn and look, and anyone else can call the name
there’s democracy in the womb, mum and fetus sharing the nutrients, and dad doing his bit to make sure mum is well nourished, well looked after, there are conversations, decisions, and resources allocated or directed into whatever
birth seems to have democracy about it also, people there to help it all happen, people sharing ideas, decisions are made and resources put into this and that, and new life is born and gets to experience breathing the free air people all share
following that nine months or so of democracy the new life starts its journey in a world that is full of democracy, it’s everywhere, the structure of all organic life on the planet functions on it, most of nature does, it’s a magical thing, and further most of the physics of the world is democratic
most of life on earth is involved in making sure it has a fair say, even an equal say, so everything is balanced, and further i’d guess the inanimate physics is also, gravity is probably communicating with mass, or objects with mass are communicating with each other regard what is a fair attraction, who’s doing most of the work, that sort of thing
possibly the entire universe functions on some type of democracy, yet to be revealed
of course i’m being obviously absurd
my question though is of the possibility of a hyper-politicized world, that peoples mental constructions of the world, if the force of those constructions inclined distortions that amounted to something similarly absurd, that passed as normal
a view of the world originated from notions of democracy, if you will
i’d expect most of life, perhaps none of life came into existence or evolved from democracy, that whatever exists today couldn’t be mainly attributed to democracy, any processes like that, not by any stretch even of the new life born today
the biology of the world isn’t democratic, nor is the physics of the universe
which brings me to the possibility that humans (individuals, groups, whatever populations) can only realistically be marginally democratic
and that has me considering the possibility there must be some very powerful shared ideas, a Lie even, to make democracy seem bigger than it really is, like it was natural, a dominant force of nature on earth, made pervasive by good thoughts, right thoughts, correct thoughts
so maybe hyper-politicization is the beginning of the end, the end of nature, a time when civilization implodes into a socially constructed reality, and alienates some truths about the world to make that work
I more started the thread mentioning the beginnings of life, then perhaps I was wandering into the middle part of life, most people of course can’t really know for sure when they’re in the middle of their life, other people might though when they observe you reached the end and moved on, and the democracy continues
seems end to end democracy, the entire universe appears to function on the stuff
so here I ask, could an accurate representation of the world be built on the ideas of democracy, from elevated ideas about democracy
I think not, it’s the basis of a potential mass illusion, and possibly worse
