Rene Guenon - Democracy Has No Dignity

A Voice Over of excerpts from Rene Guenon (from 1927), A great Thinker:
Rene steadfastly refuses to allow any dignity to the word "democracy," which he takes as synonymous with modernity's mad insistence on equalizing all human achievement at the lowest level, the only level at which such a project could come near to completing itself.

The quotations are from here: http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/vie...

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And a Private Message that was sent to me:
"democracy, some interesting infos
according to this website:

http://www.wissensmanufaktur.net/die-...

democracy in antique greece had a different meaning than what we can read today in wikipedia, I translate:

'Demos' means actually village (and NOT people), 'kratein' means like 'ruling', so a democracy is a self governing village; therefore its clear that democracy can only work in small autarkic units, else it basically results in tyranny. [note: as far as i know all state theory agrees, that a small state is better]
But the people is the sovereign?
No, 'deme' was kind of an aristocratic system, ie a small group of leaders, the 'citizen' was a subordinate 'control council', the 'people' were the persons loyal to the system, whom was given the right to wear weapons, thus the later army.
These 3 organs, deme, citizens and people made up only 10% of the whole population of the village.
The rest of the 90% were called 'idios'.

Happy holidays!"

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