I worte this blog because contents of this time would be my topic of my next CORE2 paper. So I would just drop ideas of it.

First, where did the idea of Democracy come from?

If I want to know that, I gotta go back to the Middle Age, around the era of industrial revolution.

The political system in those days was feudalism. Ordinary citizens were strictly controlled by the dynasty, and there was specific social hierarchy.

Under the name of God, dynastic families organized throughout their country in successive eras. Around same time, the means of production also changed. Some merchants started to accumulate their wealth and repeated reinvestment. They gradually empowered themselves. This is the birth of Middle-Class Citizens (the bourgeoisie). Powerful merchants got together, and they formed guild. The empowerment of middle-class was not good sign for the dynasty. So, of course, the king restricted merchants business by using law and tax.

 

However, the king could not stop new wave of era anymore (capitalism). Before long, the frustration of merchants generated the idea of overthrowing of the dyanasty. This is pretty much similar with the social class war or proletarian war which Marx mentions in his books. The ideology that merchants (middle-class and at the same time capitalists) applied to recruit more people to carry out was Democracy.

                                                                                                                                                                           

Under the feudalism, there were strict social hierarchy, and people were treated differently along with that classification. The hierarchy is basically pyramidal shape, so there must have been much more people who were aggrieved by high-class people. There was no way to utilize those people’s anger to overthrow the dynasty. So merchants justified their Revolutionby rationals of democracy: human rights and social equality. To intensify the principle more, middle-class people used religions to justify their cause of revolution. Finally, they succeeded to overthrow the dynasty and to create democratic nation.

 

My point is that humanistic aspects of democracy (human rights and social equality) were, after all, good causes for the capitalists’ pursuit of their interests. I understood that Jung named those people who were easily organized by idealistic ideologies and religious doctrines Mass People in Mass Society.

I really doubt that true equality was created and social hierarchy was eliminated after the revolution for democracy. You can see the answer if you look at the current society. Democracy as a political system was just a pump-priming ideaology to establish Capitalism.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

                    

Marx found the solution to demolish absolute inequality of capitalism in proletarian revolution to transfer to communism.

Jung found the solution in the people’s individual realization of conscious and unconscious.

Dewey found the solution in…….. I’m still reading his book. But I assume it could be education.

I think my many parts of analysis is extreme. But I was personally surprised that I notice that the ideaology of democracy was not created by healthy motivation.

This is very interesting for me. I really fear the depth of human’s desire. I personally think that humans’ inner revolution is important to solve the current vicious cycle. The Western ideaologies is already facing dead-end. I think we should find breakthrough in the Eastern philosophy. the Society would move on the East to look for dawn after dark.