Democracy & Revolution

Well, this alternately is ==> how do we defend ourselves against ourselves?,
we are always our worst enemy or, how can we get on the same page?

                                           Box of Rain

Now, it's Labor Day, 2017, and we should recognize that there's been a lot
of labor going on, since 1814, since 1320, since 4500 B.C., when no
one even new what was going on, but that progress, knowing what is
going on, is still quite surprisingly difficult.  I mean how difficult is it?

For the last 5000 years there have been a great many difficulties, some
of them almost insurmountable, but some how we ( all of us ) of the
human species have kept on quite diligently surmounting them, and I
think really, that's a good thing.

But this must have something to do with democracy, a very old or
you might say, ancient notion.  Since the American and French revolutions
this notion has been tied somewhat to revolution, more especially if you are
American or French. When I started this blog I began discussing
democracy as a very illusive and almost unattainable concept.  I still
support the idea that democracy is something that we must always strive
to achieve, although when we talk of justice, we are always concerned
about something that you --- write down ----,,, put into print. So we especially
like having had something written down at some point which must always be
sometime in the past, by somebody.

But now, I think, democracy has to mean something beyond documents
and history, I feel, that for it to be realized in an always more meaningful
way, it needs to be achieved in a bit more internalized way,  in a way
that can be more clearly recognized in ourselves and  in each other.

You know?  So if I had to put a pulse on this ? revolution ?,,,, I guess
I would say that is the really big ==> revolution <==,  and the
reason why I see the notion of democracy as continuously illusive,
not illusionary, simply hard to find or achieve.

I remain optimistic, but please don't ask me why, exactly.


                             chimes of freedom