In aristocratic nations money is the key to the satisfaction of but few of the vast array of possible desires; in democracies it is the key to them all. So, one usually finds that love of money is either the chief or a secondary motive at the bottom of everything the Americans do. This gives a family likeness to all their passions and soon makes them wearisome to contemplate.       "DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA"                                               —Alexis deTocqueville They have won equality, in fact to such an extent that freedom has become out of the question.                                               —Richard Wagner Money organizes the election process in the interest of those •who possess it, and elections become a preconcerted game that is staged as popular "self determination" Through money, democracy becomes its own self destroyer after money has destroyed intellect. "THE DECLINE OF THE WEST"                                               —Oswald Spengler Lofty spiritual independence, the will to stand alone, great intelligence even, are felt to be dangerous; everything that raises the individual above the herd and makes his neighbor quail is henceforth called evil. We who have a different faith - we, to whom the democratic movement is not merely a form assumed by political organizations in decay but also a form assumed by man in decay.       "BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL"       numbers 201 and 203                                               —Friedrich Nietzsche
		Democracy
	Democracy, which might be described as the equal right of every individual to vote and thereby protect his own rights and interests, is the standard by which all governments are judged and for which all peoples must strive. This has be¬come the sine qua non in world thought and action. Political and military action pursues the theoretical belief that democracy will insure self determination. World wars have been fought to "protect" it, revolutions have been and are being fought to establish this ideal, with loss of human lives and disastrous results for other species and the earth.       Which came first, the political ideology or the discovery of profit to be gained from the practice of democratic ideals? At any rate, these two movements have gone hand in hand since their inception. One has fed upon the other.       The idea of democracy has been said to have originated in Greece, where representative patricians were elected by members of their own class or chosen by lottery from among themselves. The current concept of democracy arose largely in England with the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 and later with its partially representative government in the seventeenth century. The English ideals spread and expanded with the writings of John Locke and others, among them Rousseau. Rousseau lived a life of wandering, generally to wherever someone would take him in, abandoning his responsibilities, including his five children one by one to foundling homes, rejecting and being rejected by contemporary intelligentsia. Nevertheless, his writings, along with those of others portraying the ills of humankind as due to society and advocating the removal of all restraints had a powerful effect on eighteenth century thinking. The ideal of "freedom" was an integral part of this thinking: freedom to struggle for so called equal rights and freedom to destroy whatever stood in their path. The rise of trade and the so called middle class made the time ripe for this sort of ideology. These struggles for "freedom" and "equality" have covered a large part of the earth with horrible destruction persisting to the present.       The possibility of achieving such goals as equality and freedom through legislation, or for that matter, any other means, is futile. Biological constraints make the ideal of equality meaningless. The ideal of freedom was forfeited with the belief in the supernatural. What resulted was anything but the fruition of these ideals. Rather, the foundation was laid for the means of despoiling the earth.       In the eighteenth century new technology made possible the industrial revolution. A growing class of people engaged in the production, promotion and sale of products for money was created. To have money became accepted as a necessary universal goal, from the most lowly to the most mighty. It became apparent that those who possessed money could manipulate society in whatever direction they chose. Most of all, the masses are manipulated. The common man, the people, the rabble, the mob, the third estate, the herd, or however else they are designated, for whom all the revolutions and constitutions and means of protecting the "rights of man," initiated by a few intellectuals, will always be exploited Throughout history various means of exploitation have prevailed; servitude, slavery, serfdom, peasantry, share cropping, to name a few. All these forms of exploitation have existed with comparatively little damage to the planet.       In a democracy the possibility to exploit has reached a new level. The masses have been turned into toiling machines with the dream of material gain and the delusion of "freedom" always before them. They are constantly regaled by every form of media to purchase toys such as automobiles, television sets, appliances, the latest gadgets and thousands of other items, along with cheap entertainment. The exploiters can not only supply the toys and cheap entertainment, but can insure an ever increasing demand by creating dreams of acquisition through all pervasive advertising and achieved by credit buying. The exploiters have developed means of exploiting the masses far superior to any king, czar, emperor or dictator by appealing to the universal instinct of greed. Most importantly, this delusion must be expanded to create ersatz democracies world wide. One has only to visit a country like Mexico with open eyes and a little Spanish to realize the futility of establishing any concept of democracy. In a country where the majority of the populace, among the minority who vote, vote according to such axioms as "lo que Dios me dice" or more likely "lo que el patron me dice" such an idea as democracy cannot be comprehended. No one except a few idealists, out of touch with reality, really care that they are ersatz, only that they provide a wider commercial market.       This world-wide effort has been responsible for the unleashing of unrestrained greed as a societal imperative, assured and sustained by the right of every individual in the ever doubling population to acquire all he can. Together with the provision of an ever escalating quantity of materia and the voiced concern by governments and commercial enterprise, for its own ends, to provide materia for all equally, can only lead to further pollution of the air and water, depletion of natural resources, the ozone layer and arable land.       The ideals of "freedom" and "equality" embodied in the goal of democracy world-wide can only make the destruction of conditions necessary for human life unavoidable.