In the end, a democratic society tip-toes upon the very precipice of a light, flimsy branch against all laws of physics and gravity, constantly snapping to fall to a concrete bone-bust slow-death below.
The concept of a Head of State stands as the subconscious manifestation of Judaeo-Christian monotheism.. only one can lead. Not two. Not three. Not five, nor five million.
Just a single, fallible, ego-float wanna-be messianic man-deity with a superiority complex either pre-imbued or created during a term of office and, in the rare instance when this superiority complex does not appear due to a shred of political and humanistic humility, the very idea that a President, Prime Minister, King, Queen, Sultan, or state figurehead is required acts as the symbolic reminder of its implicit existence within consensual reality itself.
And it seems strange that anyone, including myself, decide to use the term 'consensual' when it is only 'consensual' in a roundabout psychoanalytic it's-your-fault-because-you-do-nothing-about-it sort of way, again harking back to another subconscious manifestation of the Judaeo-Christian cultural mind-model: the 'guilt complex.'
The guilt complex in itself developed through the concept of 'original sin' and the essential darkness and redundant stupidity of Earthly man. It is the reason many still feel irrationally ashamed of themselves after a session of self-stimulated orgasm, and why we awkwardly kick the ground and say 'thank you' to industry for the 'privilege' of ultimately enslaving ourselves to the monetary treadmill against our will.*
There is no such thing as a 'human nature' beyond the natural 'involuntaries' of consumption of food, consumption of water, sleep, exercise, and sex. Man is not inherently guilty, selfish, imperialistic, nor competitive. Each historical era, characterized by a 'historical horizon' in which the cultural mode of the mass of the race has been programmed slowly over the course of preceding eras is what is observed to be 'human nature' by the intellectuals of every time. The mistake these individuals make.. the mistake that the giant Sigmund Freud made.. was to take his observation of the humanity of his time as the humanity of all time.. past, present, and future.. adding his opinion as a dominant ingredient to the mix, thus assisting in the perpetuation of what caused him so much pessimistic angst, as those observed as selfish and outwardly imperialistic were now validated by a theory given the stamp of authority, unburdening them of a potential guilt to the contrary.
Although much can be seen in common throughout the course of human history between the men of 'then' and the men of 'now,' this observation is only made in relation to the common thread of what makes one human. The fact remains that there was a time when people truly believed a King to be divinely ordained, and there is still a place where the female is subconsciously manifested as 'less' in the minds of the both sexes due to the overwhelming pressure of ones cultural mode of existence.
It is not 'human nature' that makes someone who they are on the subconscious level.. it is culture.
The human nature of today is overwhelmingly one of manipulation, egotism, competition, anxiety, and a pursuit of a happiness represented as material and monetary wealth. This is not the same nature of island nativity or contemporary agrarian societies of the third world.
The bottom line is that what is known as human nature is manufactured, and if it is only now beginning to be seen throughout all cultures, countries, and clans it is because of the blatant imposition of free market economics coupled with Western scientific objectivism (to which the arrogant theories of psychoanalysis are now a part).
On an individual level, one is able to 'manufacture' aspects of their own individual reality. This is snuffed and/or defined within an archetype by the manufactured reality of ones overarching cultural mode of mind.
The cultural mind, however, is not an inevitable state and is 'democratic' by its very nature. It is nothing more than the result of billions of voices speaking into the void since the dawn of human awareness, and one can add to the mold as competently as any intellectual giant has throughout history.
The game is only as rigged as you let it become.
*The bare fact that it truly is against our will is masked beneath the societal smorgasbord of career opportunity; were one to attempt to explain that they did not wish to have a job in the first place, the reply would invariably be one of two things: 1: 'you did not have to work [at this particular career],' or, 2: 'well then, you can go starve to death in the streets..' unaware that the only thing starving the homeless is the fact that we not only collectively disagree with their freedom, but also rob them of practical self-sustainment by appropriating every single nook and cranny of the means of bodily (as well as spiritual) sustainment and growth, thus causing them to claw at our feet begging for our scraps. Modern society, if it were truly free, could potentially exist in its current form, but would not appropriate and monetize the organic materials which are the birthright of each and every living creature on any planet gardened with life.
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