Grow up!
Democracy does not create egalitarian societies. It creates a hierarchy of ideas and symbols of those ideas, in which rank is determined by the level of uncritical emotional response that those ideas and symbols can generate. Egalitarian society is a contradiction in terms. Hierarchy exists everywhere in human interaction, whether it is acknowledged or not. All hierarchy is teleologically driven. What you are trying to do determines who has legitimate authority, based on their capacity to accomplish those goals and direct others to accomplish those goals. Without a goal, there can be no hierarchy, but there is never NO goal.
Too often, however, the goal is not consciously accepted and acknowledged and all awareness of hierarchy becomes repressed, subject to all of those aforementioned uncritical emotional responses. Erich Fromm observes that this first occurs in childhood, when the very young child is utterly physically subject to the parents specifically and adults in general. A crucial part of the human maturation process involves shedding the psychological complexes which obfuscate the brutal nature of authority and power, because this awareness is not entirely appropriate to the parent/child relationship, and as such can create emotional distress and confusion if it becomes to apparent. Democracy is an effort to impose egalitarianism on human nature, which, it is demonstrable from a cursory analysis of history, psychology, and religion, creates a set of psychological conditions totally alien to the human condition.
This is the real danger of egalitarian thought. It imposes a set of conditions which are alien to nature, and as such, alien to the human heart, mind, and spirit. These conditions can never be truly accepted, and so nature must hide itself from the conscious mind to find expression. It is easy to see that modernity has made our society more or less unconscious of nature, and the consequences of that are clearly manifesting themselves.
Get ready for a hell of a summer.
Too often, however, the goal is not consciously accepted and acknowledged and all awareness of hierarchy becomes repressed, subject to all of those aforementioned uncritical emotional responses. Erich Fromm observes that this first occurs in childhood, when the very young child is utterly physically subject to the parents specifically and adults in general. A crucial part of the human maturation process involves shedding the psychological complexes which obfuscate the brutal nature of authority and power, because this awareness is not entirely appropriate to the parent/child relationship, and as such can create emotional distress and confusion if it becomes to apparent. Democracy is an effort to impose egalitarianism on human nature, which, it is demonstrable from a cursory analysis of history, psychology, and religion, creates a set of psychological conditions totally alien to the human condition.
This is the real danger of egalitarian thought. It imposes a set of conditions which are alien to nature, and as such, alien to the human heart, mind, and spirit. These conditions can never be truly accepted, and so nature must hide itself from the conscious mind to find expression. It is easy to see that modernity has made our society more or less unconscious of nature, and the consequences of that are clearly manifesting themselves.
Get ready for a hell of a summer.