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In reply to the discussion: Why do so many people idolize V for vendetta's anarchy? It is not democratic to blow up buildings [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)given that democracy means self-rule by the people, for the people. But is representative hierarchic system democracy, how well it functions as form of self-rule?
Sociopsychological studies show that people who fill up hierarchic power positions tend to be sociopaths and psychopaths in much higher concentration than in general population, and that hierarchic power positions strengthen the individual potential for sociopathic behavior. As the maxim says, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Studies show that people who make rules from top down positions tend to consider that their rules don't apply to themselves, only to subordinate masses.
Given these facts of human social psychology, purely representative system is not functioning for the benefit of community as whole but for a small elite, and if you take a look, it's de facto tyranny ruled by banks that have monopoly of money creation out of thin air - with which they can buy all the sociopathic and corrupted politicians they need. And it's highly destructive.
Money is just a symbol of power, and the blowing up of parliament in a comic book and movie is just symbolic act. We are ruled by symbols, and there are lot's of revolutionary symbols and symbolic acts against symbols of power. And we get easily lost in the worlds of symbols and loose touch with concrete reality and simple facts of life.