True Democracy - The equality of inequality

The following is my attempt at an explanation and description of my thoughts on democracy and its true nature in the context of modern, current, society.

I believe that the notion of democracy is valid, but the way that it is enacted, implemented, and told is a lie. That the so-called 'democracy' that exists now, or at least exists in 21st Century England, is a lie. How can we be equal yet some appear more equal than others? That people have more material objects, more money, more opportunities, more intelligence and capability for knowledge than others. How can this be possible if we are equal?

The answer is that we are not equal in that way. People are equal in their inequality. That every person will ultimately die. That is not being morbid, that is a fact, a truth that should not be shied away from, but it should not be obsessed over either. Every person also has limits, no one is limitless, no one is immortal in body and mind and completely devoid of death.

We should not be told that we are equal and believe that if one person achieves something the rest of us can also do it. This leads to resentment; resentment of the achieving and resentment of the self for not achieving when this thing is not accomplished. We cannot all be winners. A race cannot be won by all competitors. There should be no scorn for the 'loser' or ill-will towards the 'winner'.

Each person has their place. This is democracy. Not a level playing field that to derive from causes hatred for the under and over achiever. Democracy is people of different skills, different capabilities, different abilities helping and furthering each other. Democracy is the rainbow; different colours fulfilling their role in the spectrum.

I am not saying that people who are poor should stay poor because it somehow fulfills their 'role'. I am saying that people should not be told that they can achieve everything and anything. The poor should not be looked down upon. An individual who is poor because they irresponsibly gamble everything they earn away contiously, can be looked down upon. People should not be judged by their position. Judge by their actions, but also to what end those actions where to, and whether there were possibilities for more appropriate action.

My thought is this, we are all human, or rather we are all mortal. That is the same in us. Of course, the length of our mortality is also unequal. I am not suggesting that we should all be equal because we cannot achieve a goal, that someone should be made sovereign so the rest of us are all equal in not being sovereign. We should be equal because not of how much we can bring to the table but because we can bring something to the table and all sit at the same table. The table that is earth.

Yet I also have a nagging thougt that democracy cannot exist, that it is an impossibility in light of our shared inequality. That there can be no common ground and we should all fulfill different roles and be proud of this. I want there to be a common ground so that people stay together and are not driven apart in attempts to maximise the number f roles they can fulfill so that they can become the 'best'.

My idea of democracy is not simple as you have probably seen, it is not a single 'truth' with a single solution and definition. Or rather it is not something that will not be questioned and changed in compliance with time and its altering affects. My idea of democracy is where society is like a web; surrounding a spider. People are connected in connections with others across and around the web. Yet only society itself, the spider at the heart of the web, is complete and can do everything. Yet this spider is made up of the surrounding web and the people that make up that web. The spider, society, canot exist without this different spheres of influence, power, and ability. No single web thread can make up a web, it needs many threads, a multitude.

My philosophy is one of variety, one of different spheres; of a solar system made up of different planets, or a planet that contains many different elemenys. These seperate things will not be constantly at war, but they will not always coexist in peace eternally. Existence is varied, everything is varied and multi-partite and nothing can purely be one thing. Langauge will make sure of that at least.

Here I end these set of words for now or else I will say too much and not stick to my original point and therefore feel unfinished. My final thought is that democracy is an equality of inequality; each person can do different things and no one can do everything as democracy needs people not a person.