All high ideals ultimately fail us. We humans, in the aggregate, for all our exceptionalism, remain deeply flawed, and thus, we continually fail to build a just and equitable society. Demonstrably, human nature eventually defeats and perverts every noble intention. Wrecks litter the landscape of history- and each effort at purposeful utopia devolves to dystopia.
In the West, the democratic ideal reigns supreme, despite the unreal status of its historical application; but of course, the western democracies are an obvious reality- and seem to represent a kind of progress- yet the actual state of affairs belies that the democratic ideal has been only a cover for an omnipresent plutocracy- a plutocracy at times apparently beneficent, but persistent with its own opaque agenda- captured conceptually, neatly, and absolutely, by the single word: Capital.
Furthermore, this power structure of the West is not monolithic; it is to the contrary, fragmented, competitive, and even after a manner of speaking, ephemeral. Its concrete manifestation is to be found in the vastness of accumulated and concentrated wealth, of real property-
sadly, democracy on the ground is an illusion, and stands as a product of a supreme propaganda- a high ideal only, and probably useless for the goals of deep ecology...
Kalinskii
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