Let's talk about some of the fundamentals that make a democracy work and what democracy is and tie it in with personal development work that we're doing, with consciousness work,

with spirituality, and also with the current events that are happening around me.

I've gotten multiple comments and

feedbacks over the last couple of months that I've seen in the comments sections

where people want me to talk about COVID-19 or they want me to talk about the black lives matter

black lives matter protests and other things that are

happening in current events. So that's going to tie in with this discussion of

democracy. So what is democracy? How do we really understand what

democracy is and how to make it work effectively?

Where to even begin with this topic?

We're going to be kind of going all over the place. This is going to be a free-wheeling discussion. I don't have anything planned per se.

But the first thing we should notice about democracy is how much it's taken for granted.

Especially if you grew up in a democratic country more or less

a developed country, first world country, where some degree of democracy is

available, it's very easy to take it for granted and to not see the challenges, the inherent challenges that democracy brings.

So fundamentally what is democracy about?

It's about giving ordinary people autonomy in controlling their futures, their lives and the trajectory of their society.

It's where ordinary people are involved in important decisions about war,

about taxation, about regulation,

about discrimination, about rights, about laws, and the direction of society, how to structure health care,

how to structure the economy, and so on. And people, we just sort of assume that well, democracy is just sort of like the default state, and it just works.

Because if you're in a country like in America then it's sort of been here for a couple hundred years and people just take it for granted.

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