All Western authors-whether online or in the press-must say something about the undeniable value of democracy. It’s like a law for them.
Like, – sure, there’s problematic things going on in the world. “Whether in America, in Asia, in Europe…”, well, there are other places noisy…. In America, for example, the fasteners got loose, you know, people went wall to wall….
Yes, of course, all of this is extremely unpleasant, but there is absolutely no denying that the pursuit of democracy is natural and positive. There you go.
Not only is “democracy” sinful to question. What are you, how can you…. The name of this idol must be repeated over and over again.
Just as it is considered obligatory for an adherent of any ideologized system to make references to “the role of the party,” “humanism,” “God,” and so forth. In the same way, in any company, in any society, it is considered proper to mention on every occasion what is worshipped here. Or that which is cursed is the enemy.
To speak without mentioning idols is generally felt by people as something unseemly and unsuitable. Just a person who speaks without naming the idols and enemies accepted in his environment is suspicious. It is felt by others as something alien. Such a person with his speeches does not answer the main and first question: “Who are you? That is, – what cave are you from, what clan-tribe?
Such a person doesn’t give “I belong” signals. He does not meet the natural need of those around him to identify him and determine who they are dealing with. And here life experience tells us an interesting and intuitive phenomenon. Which may lead us to very promising conclusions. After all, all of this is true of a society that is divided into clusters, sectors, and groupings. And in it, of course, everyone is just obliged to honk their identification lights. Even among my own people.
But at the same time we also know a very different life. We know that the closer people get to each other, the more united they become in working together toward a common goal, the more confident they become in each other. And among their own people they can even walk around at night without signal lights, without fear of being rammed by someone.
In such an environment a person no longer needs to speak in clichés and slogans. You don’t have to enter your username and password when communicating with others, mentioning idols and enemies. It’s the kind of life that makes us free. At least in a team, a company, a collective of people where everyone is willing to help everyone, knowing that everyone is willing to help them.
If so, it becomes clear how we can all go out on our own. Out of the prison of the dull duty of constantly throwing out pennants and blowing signal horns in the fog. The duty caused by the general enmity among all. We just need to extend this kind of familiar relationship of mutual help and confidence in each other to the whole of society. That’s it. After all, the quantitative changes, folks, are nothing more than that.
It is clear that in order to do this, we need to realize that in life we are already united by joint activity for a common goal. It’s just that the smokescreen of commodity-money relations is eating your eyes out and prevents you from seeing the truth. And yet somehow we need to see it. Not waiting for the wind of change to blow and dispel this illusion. Because the wind can be a hurricane. We might be blown away with the haze by this wind that we were too lazy to dispel.
