The term democracy is an ever-evolving, ever-changing concept since the first time it appeared in the Ancient Greek world. Back then, democracy was nothing like what we perceive today. Can you imagine a democracy where women cannot vote because they are not considered as equal citizens to men and not only the men but the most powerful? Can you imagine a democracy where there were slaves of all kinds? Hopefully you cannot, but that was exactly the form of democracy back in the ancient world. However what they had was still unique and could not be preceded for hundreds of years. The democracy as we now know could only spring after the women’s suffrage movements and war against every kind of discrimination after the 19th century. So actually democracy took around a thousand of years to mature. However, maturity doesn’t mean that it stopped evolving.
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Serious Defects in Modern Democracy 4 – Deep Democracy
What do we mean by the term Deep Democracy?
Deep Democracy developed as a political principle, in the 1980s, having first demonstrated its use in integrative psychotherapy. Unlike Classical representational and Direct Democracy, which focuses on majority rule, Deep Democracy suggests that all voices, states of awareness, and frameworks of reality are important, and are all needed to understand a more complete process of the political system.
In order to understand the complete process we pose the question, does democratic governance have to be global to be effective? Deep Democracy suggests this is the case in a number of ways. First, attitudes focus on the awareness of voices both central and bedazzling in a way that all voices and views are given the same degree of importance. Secondly, these principles are to be used on all organisations, groups as well as personal inner experience; people in conflict etc. Thirdly, humanity needs to experience Deep Democracy as a bedazzling process of flow, in which all actors on the stage are needed to create the play being observed. Democracy needs to be a dynamical system that Read the rest of this entry »
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