"---cracy:" Its prefix makes a BIG difference

Our Selves + A Democracy =More Health, Happiness, and Prosperity

for most of Us

 

Corp---, Latin for body

 

Our Selves + The Corpocracy=Less Health, Happiness, and Prosperity

for Most of Us    

 

Dissecting the meaning of power  

 

In a democracy its citizens have the power of freedom, the power of prosperity, the power of knowledge, the power of choice, and the power of responsibility. It all adds up to the power of the people; their self-rule and control of their own lives, not to the power of the corpocracy and its tyrannical rule over peoples' lives.

 

The power of freedom: How so?

 

Democracy, needless to say, is synonymous with freedom. But have we thought of freedom in the way that Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman Consul and Orator (106BC-43BC), thought of it? "Freedom," he said, "is participation in power." He wrote Western civilization's first democratic constitution and he prized freedom. So did the framers of the U.S. Constitution who were heavily influenced by Cicero's writings. The reason he believed freedom is participation in power is because power means control and a free people thus have more rather than less control over how much health, happiness, and prosperity they have. And in a democracy of self rule it is the shared, participatory power of the people, not the hoarded, tyrannical power of the corpocracy that governs.

 

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