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A video you won’t be seeing at The Standard anytime soon.
24,7,365 One Whole Year of genocide
G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E, G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E, G-E-N-O-C-I-D-E
The song Israel (and those at The Standard) don’t want you to hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlFvGy7NO3w
Democracy – what is it.
Gwynne Dyer on it and the big worldwide hunt for it. Maybe it’s hiding in NZAO.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2024/bangladesh-venezuela-and-democracy/
… The protests were not initially about idealistic notions of democracy or some other abstraction; they were about jobs.
Yet four hundred people, almost all of them students, laid down their lives in the protests against her increasingly arbitrary rule, and it’s not really worth dying for a slightly better chance at a cushy but not very well-paying job. They also talked about democracy, by which they really meant equality, or at least equality of opportunity.
That’s also what motivated more than two-thirds of the Venezuelans who remain in the country to cast their votes against tyranny last week even though they knew the election would be rigged. They may yet succeed in forcing the ruler, Nicolás Maduro, to give up and go into exile too, because fairness is a basic human value.
Around a third of the world’s people live in countries that can be called democratic, although all of them are flawed in one way or another. What is striking is that practically every autocratic regime in the world also claims to be democratic. In principle (although not yet in practice) it is the default human political system.
We are talking about the nature of ‘human nature’ here, and the key point is that it has a history. It changes over time in response to changing circumstances, but there is a detectable theme running through it for at least many tens of thousands of years.
Human beings belong to the primate family, most of whose members live in smallish groups (rarely more than a hundred). They have strongly graded hierarchies like those in our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees. There is a boss who rules by force and by fear but also by making alliances, and there is constant turmoil as other would-be bosses rise and fall.
Any diligent reader can find exceptions to all the above statements, but by and large that is the primate condition. It was presumably once the human condition too – but all the ancestral human groups we know about lived in absolute equality… Song to brighten you This Thing called Love by Queen lyrics. (Replace love with democracy though it upsets the rhythm.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Vo5x-AoE4
Crazy little thing called democracy – woo woo.
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