The internet is now the biggest tool in democracy.

--which is why some traditional media, ie TV often tries to discredit information from the internet...in politics and even alternative health. Alternatives are dangerous to monopolies

In the shift from direct democracy to representational democracy, the printed book became an embodiment of thought for the physically absent author; and so the popular art form of the popular book and the pamphlet re-presented ideas and contributed to the public space of political philosophies of the Enlightenment. Television, however, now brings forth this new kind of public space, and it calls into being this new world, not of the educated citizenry in a republic, but of the electropeasantry in the state of Entertainment. Recall how people stopped singing in pubs when they brought in the TV set, and you will appreciate the new passivity in which people stop voting for their representatives as TV takes over the electoral campaigns.

William Irwin Thompson (1991) Play, from The American Replacement of Nature

The other thing that corrupts governments is money - I go to Eastern Europe every couple of years to visit my girl friends family in Latvia, and what I is a country with corrupt government (as well as a small group of extremely wealthy people) and a relatively poor population.

Other countries that do not have as many resources have a smaller, poorer, and more efficient government. But more equality in the population.

Yep but at the point that Britain and Japan were expanding they didn't have democratically elected governments who were accountable to the population - being small doesn't guarantee democracy obviously (look at the pacific islands to see this). But it helps to keep democracy in check. If everyone is within two or three degrees of separation from the senior politicians then it's harder for politicians to hide.

The concept of democracy and other concepts similar to it by themselves, cannot be true, or even exist, they never did. Democracy it's a very intelligent way to make some people believe that they have the power to vote for decisions that affect their lives. So that they feel comfortable being manipulated.

How can we decide for someone else to rule us, if we ourselves cannot rule our own life?

Can I decide to be perfect, if or not to have a illness? Will I control myself in every situation, will I learn how be absolutely controlled? Are people needs different from each other? Am I an human being with lots of mistakes?

What decision is to be made then, when ambiguity is always present? How to decide for something I'm ignorant about, different needs and worlds, for tomorrow?

Democracy It's not true, not a concept in any country. IS A LIE Someone (does't matter who) intend to make us like a herd, thinking equal, behaving equal, being equal. Biggest LIE ever. We are not equal we are part of each other, that make us a big family, but not equal, different.

So voting and PAYING some stranger who will eventually defend some rules that a group of people with some needs, decided are best for some people who they didn't know, based in some human defects and virtues from a reality some time ago, for that everyone in a community can live "safely" and to have some rights "defended", and their needs "satisfied".

Well that is a lot of suppositions in a world of ambiguity, where you don't know what will happen tomorrow...

That's the "power" of democracy.

The truth is, as far as I'm concerned, that very few people with lots of power (capacity to accomplish things), make the most decisions in how health, politics and economics must behave, in order to fullfill their retorted, particular and for me, inhuman needs.

They do not control ourselves, because We've been given freedom to choose. Will I choose to vote for someone who does't represent me to decide for me, NO THANKS. I choose to be myself (as I am), choose to represent myself, and to understand mi own needs at my speed, respecting offcourse other people needs and their speeds.

LOVE is the only rule.