What is Democracy?

March 22, 2025

Musings from the Meta-Verse: Tip of the Iceberg Cosmologies

Before you begin: please take a moment, settle in, enjoy the image above—of me holding my baby daughter as a first-time dad, tune into the frequency of restful wonder. Now allow your mind to wander outward from the edges of that image: to the room, to the street outside, to the vast sky beyond the vast sky. Further—past the solar system, past the galaxy’s edge, past everything known—to the edge of the cosmos. And then…

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Donald t"Rump" represents the perennial and regressive American traits of self-interest, religious and racial bigotry, and fearful delusional scarcity. The first English settlers in the New World from Jamestown to Plymouth lived horrific lives of deprivation and death. The country was then built on the backs of Africans whose enslavement made possible economic security. This is the karma of America. So, it is no surprise that we are still trying to overcome these legacies.

So there is a bigger picture here. When I search for a silver lining I see my girls and their education. Protesting harmful policies and asking the question "What is Democracy?"--I could not have asked for a more vivid way to teach them their rights and duties as citizens. They represent the future of this American experiment and are already, quite naturally, "good" citizens. We need them to grow up with the values of caring for one another, and realizing that that is more important than a callous life of individual survival and independence.