| From The River Of Heaven |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| VEDIC SOCIAL SCIENCE : THE SPIRITUAL BASIS OF CULTURE | |
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| The Limitations of Society The ancients did not believe in a simple democracy or equality between men. They saw an equality between the souls of men but realized that our human aptitudes are quite different, our minds and their values differ. There is in democracy, its negative side, the scaling down of higher values, just as there is in it the raising up of the lower classes. It aims at the average, which may be the mediocre. It also serves to impose one set of values upon all human beings. These are defined by the values behind the democracy. In most democracies they are economic freedom or commercial interests. Hence they naturally impose commercial values on the whole of society. They do not just simply allow individuals to pursue different values but overtly or covertly promote the values of one level of society, the mercantile class. This is not so much a society free of class as a society ruled by, defined by and reduced to one class. Compared to such a one-dimensional or linear society, the ancient cultures were intricate and multidimensional.
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