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3 To those who stoop, instead, to try to fulfill their desires through violence: Despite all of the fighting, all of us will again, in the end, wind up living in a diverse world, one with many ethnicities, communities, and worldviews.

what matters more than our own mosaic of colors anyhow, or any other identifier regarding any aspect of our being, is how, even in light of those facts, we react to one another and how we treat each other. Fortunately, the human race holds the power to metamorphose, to grow toward—enlightenment.

but we must consider all of this in the context of history and human-driven bias, bigotry, prejudice, ignorance, and inequity;

This does not mean we should pretend, like fools, to be oblivious to one’s colors (plural, for, yes, we each embody many internally and externally), or how society tends to act toward these (especially the external), or how each aspect, large or small, of one’s ethnicity has meaning,

and tragedies, deceptions first played on us by monarchies (whether kingdoms and colonies or masters and plantations). Race as color or hue is a lie against humankind.

and it frequently misses, for instance, the fact that there are millions of colors between the shades white and black— and that even those two, incidentally, do not truly exist among humanity, and, indeed, are relatively recent social contrivances—

for the purpose of antidemocratically distributing power and denying power) is as embarrassingly narrow-minded and as misguided as it is crafty, racecrafty,

in addition, that something like the color of one’s skin is what the whole of the person is (e.g., in one of the world’s various attempts at democracy, in America, which created a system that has grotesquely overemphasized—not to mention has used the wrong terms for—the color of people’s skin

The hate-heavy and power-lust-laden delusion that the human race is not one race or that something like color determines race—or even the more accurate idea of ethnicity—is asinine on its face;

We are the HUMAN RACE. The People and the planet are linked and linked to our duty to one another, our destiny, our democracy. All of us are intertwined, in a double-helical dance—at once democratic, physical, and chemical.

each person to the depths of their souls, they, too, sing democracy, humanity’s zenith).

(and stop and hold quiet and listen and hear the cries of those around you, the old cries and the new, and then help to lift the injustices they bear; hear democracy singing; each voice in its own right, a choir of many voices, a colorful chorus in our inextricably shared story,

For all that is sacred, turn, today, to your bothers and sisters and embrace them in unity, harmony, humanity, democracy, love, in order to cure what ails you — and us

Beyond the spiritual or mental torment (prison) of not seeing well beyond the small, distorted prism of so-called race, a more beautiful, fulfilling world, for us all, awaits.

by rhetoric designed so that you would not notice the forked-tongued lies of people lusting over power (and money, which is a form of power) at your very expense.

the many folks among us who have felt unheard or full of hate feel so because, long ago, you were divided from your brothers and sisters, and you were wronged when made to feel as if they were your enemies

have been depleting and destroying the harmony of the natural world around us, its ecology, and our human ecology; have been exploiting people; and then have been laughing all the way to the bank. In fact,

Yet, for decade upon decade upon decade, purportedly anti-elitist professional divide- and-conquer worshipers of personal power have been riling up their ranks, misleading their marks, toward what certainly, yet ironically, is a pitch that they are entitled to socioeconomic elitism;

and no one rejects or ejects every bit of the visible spectrum of light either, as if they were a formation of snow or salt. Not quite.

no one absorbs every bit of our visible spectrum of light (notice that we obsess over the mere perception of the spectrum of light visible by human eyes, as if it is supremely important),

in accordance, human beings have skin, of all random things for one to give immense weight, that is essentially neither the shades white nor black (the hue of each person’s skin is some spectrum of Earth- tone, from the very same Mother Earth);

No system of trade is just or reasonable that devours the house — or its people;

Economically or ecologically, no matter which, “[a] house divided against itself cannot stand;” respectively, the following particular examples, hold high importance to America, among others:

Without one or the other (a healthy human ecology and/or a healthy greater ecology), the house of democracy (eco in ecology, like eco in economy, means house) will be razed — not raised, nor reinforced, but ruined, sundered, felled, destroyed.

Democracy depends upon mutually beneficial and equitable connections and the vigorous flow of cycles of energy among a healthy human ecology and the healthy greater ecology of where we live.

Whereas progress is its own virtue in a world and cosmos where change does not stop, to repress portions of the People is, on the contrary, the inhumanity of antidemocracy.

Protecting power structures that burn (heat) and salt (poison) the planet, though? The obvious opposite: unvirtuous (for harming both the People and our home). What we conserve alongside if we repress, in part, reveal if we want life to progress.

Conserving the very environment both surrounding us and comprising us is a vital virtue, paired with actions such as depolluting Mother Earth’s air, water, and land.

Empowering ourselves through democracy also allows humankind our one chance to conserve the house from which we all hail: Mother Nature, Creation, Mother Earth.

so, we’ve progress to make to actually empower ourselves democratically.

a sound sense of freedom, belonging, the future: a compact to vote together and to empower our own self-governance; as well, true democracy is the power to vote upon NEARLY EVERY aspect of governance: matters of peace and war, taxation, spending, education, health, and more;

2 True democracy (the gravitational ocean that our rivers and streams have all long sought along our geo-hydrospheric web—our DEMOSPHARIA: our cosmic/ planetary—community) is both our prayer and gift to each other to nurture,

Let’s share, and together we rise. Let us speak the password primeval: Let’s give the sign of democracy; naturally, humanity is interconnected. We divide our- selves unnecessarily, indeed, invent division, but true democracy is humanity interwoven, in union with itself and beyond.

Let us share: Sharing power is the essence of democracy (as well as the essence of existence and of life itself, for all is of the all), and this elevates the whole human race, which is all one race and interlaced in its fortunes as well as its natures, even if some pretend that this is not so.

Either we have a system in which power is distributed equitably, or else we have one in which powermongers covet the pharaoh’s pyramid, scheme to possess it, or even to have it built FOR themselves, and distort—funnel to their own hands—much of our wealth and power, damning the People.

The demagogue, like the tyrant, desires their own personal power, and they accumulate it by inflaming and exploiting the passions of the masses, especially the People’s fear, angst, and anger, in order to divide portions of the People against themselves so as to make democracy less achievable.

When we strive to make democracy (rule by the People) more direct for ALL, we also defend democracy from demagogues, demagoguery being destructive (antimatter) to the matters of an enlightened democracy, just as with tyrants.

Ask yourself: How do my choices and actions make real that I favor democracy, true democracy: empowered citizens, freedom from corruption?

It matters immensely, in fact critically, for us to ask this to ourselves about every socially impactful idea we have: Does this given idea actualize/realize and make more, or fully, accessible DEMOCRACY (the People’s right to self-governance), or the opposite?

Let us ask ourselves, as a guiding principle (one for which we reached a point, long ago, where it has become crucial to ask), if any given demand, policy, and action we wish to pursue actualizes/realizes and makes more (or fully) accessible DEMOCRACY, or instead diminishes it.

1 All of us are intertwined, in a double-helical dance—at once democratic, physical, and chemical. When we strive to make democracy—people-power— more direct for all, we also bind ourselves back to each other —re-ligare—in union, communion, a covenant, with one another.

Next, "The Essence of Democracy (True Democracy: Article II, Written in Lines)"

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True democracy is community and communication. True democracy is embracing commonality and common ground. Common ground and commonality are true democracy. True democracy is sharing and voting. True democracy is peaceful and neighborly. True democracy is LOVE.

True democracy, government with the direct consent of the People, is the future, and true democracy solves for rule by subtraction and division, for true democracy is addition and multiplication. True democracy is compassion and cooperation.

and to know just the rhythm of information in humanity’s past is enough to know the rhythms of our present and our future and what to change in the rhythms of our present and our future.

and to know just the rhythm of information in humanity’s past is enough to know insights that have aided our survival for ages, to know how myopia has drowned us in the many vortexes of existence, to know the difference between the two, to know, thus, when to think and act bigger or more uniquely,

To know all the information of just one moment is to know all time at once,

— love is linked to compassion, communication, community, communion, unity, union; linked to cooperation; and linked to bonds between brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, family, friends, fellows, neighbors, lovers, the eternal, humanity, togetherness: the eternal humanity-togetherness.