Death and Democracy

The death of democracy is an intransigeant refusal to talk and communicate; no communication other than to say no, no, and no once again; bright Mephisto in this Faustean age: "...der Geist der stets verneint..." as Goethe had it, a spirit forever-denying.

Lenin knew it, so did other leaders of ideologies who knew that keeping the faith pure was more important than palavering with outsiders, non-believers, and the luke-warm. Democracy and its discontents stemmed from a negotiation, back and forth, that obscured the pristine clarity of the truth of the Ideology.

Of course, democracy died many times before. In Rome, the Era of Augustus was pretty good for most people, and the death of the aristocratic democracy was not wept for. Business will still be good, and in time will be better.
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