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harvey&friendWinston Churchill said something like: “Democracy is a poor system, but it is the best system we know.”

In a democracy, the people (demos) are who have the sovereignty (kratie). In theory!

The key to the sovereignty are the elections. The people vote in favour of ideas, concepts, a philosophy. The majority will win. So far, so good.

But the people also elect persons. They are subcontractors who are supposed to implement the ideas, concepts, philosophies they have been elected for. The people delegate the sovereignty. Now, the subcontractors reign.

Those who have the power will do what they want to do. The people do not count. Herds of cattle, driven to the polling stations? Having to accept anything?
What is the difference between industry and democracy?

In industry, subcontractors are bloodied. In democracy, the subcontractors are those who do the bloodying.

Where did we go wrong?


My friend Harvey says:

Your method of demanding truth is an interesting one – the adjustment of metaphors.

Normally, the masterminds of a democracy, for instance the French revolutionaries, worked with a family metaphor: Fraternité, brothers, brothers to the light.

This is supposed to signal blood relationship, close proximity, maximum trust.

In doing so, they had found a reply to the animal metaphor as declared by Hobbes:

One person is his neighbour’s wolf – which is the opposite of brother.

You use an entrepreneurial metaphor, which is supposed to prove that you are not a leftist sentimentalist, but a rational rightist.

The subcontractor is absolutely consistent after having started with the entrepreneurial metaphor.

Whatever serves to guarantee success is right.

Be it the free sale for an entrepreneur, or the execution of the people’s wishes in a democracy

From the animal metaphor via the family metaphor to the entrepreneurial metaphor.

Nietzsche says that truth is a mobile army of metaphors.

There comes a time when we can no longer prove anything with ratio.

That is when we will believe in images which are supposed to verify our ideas.

Some believe in the animal inside us, others in the family person,

You believe in the entrepreneur.

Now who has the best truth?


Oh, my dear Harvey, what paths are you taking? There is only one truth, but it lies hidden in a haystack of lies. Humans are notoriously lazy, so they take the surrogate for truth: belief. It has the same effect as a drug.

Those who do not like belief will take doubt. It is an even more potent drug, because you will not get rid of it. Least of all by ratio!

All you can do is strengthen or weaken it, using images.

There is a method behind it and, according to Adorno, it works “like a tank on the open wound of doubt.” (Elwood P. Dowd).
(Translated by EG)

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