DEMOCRACY

++ RON OLEVSKY ON racism..
"i do blame human nature and ignorance. too many of our citizens believe we live in a democracy. two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch is a democracy. we live (in theory) in a constitutional democratic republic where even minorities have rights, but people in a strong majority tend to get self-righteous and sanctimonious. The climbing community is not exempt from such behavior."
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really? two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch is a democracy? thats quite the democracy afforded only to the bourgeoisie elite. is it possible for everyone to live in a democracy where they are wolves? how would this affect the dynamics of the social hierarchies in institutions such as the government, the university, your family? Perhaps this is already the democracy we live in now.
..house of representatives, the senate, and the white house. majority rules.
..the faculty dictate to students what is due and when it will be due. the faculty respond to the deans who respond to provosts who respond to the president.
..children obey their parents, where in 'normal' families, the majority rule. whoever holds the bigger stake in the family (i.e.larger paycheck contributions) holds the larger making of decisions.
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its almost a corporate bureucratic decmocracy where the bigger beat up the smaller, the larger win out over the smaller, the rich get richer, the poor poorer. how do you combat this so-called democracy where atrocities like this can occur with consequence? perhaps a return to grass-roots or a return to the small, mom and pop establishments. anything which can close the great divide. perhaps its not a return. if large corporate institutions are boycotted, what is to become of these global fixtures. this world, this society is one of an ever-widening globalization. this is the future. everything will eventually become one in the same some might argue. you cannot deny the existance of institutions. they are here to stay. so a mitigation or a regulation has to be in order to maintain this order.
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