Democracy as a Quantum Theory

 

 Political Extrema

Communism seeks immediate and eternal stability in a static spatial 
sense. 

Captialism seeks the temporal expression of individuals according 
their individual abilities. 

Communism can only achieve its goal by the forced minimalizing 
or homogenizing individuals. Its goals are noble in the sense 
that ideally, everyone will have a respectable quality of life 
at the expense of everyone else. This ideally (and to some 
extent in reality), guarantees that poverty will never be below 
some minimum level and everyone will be insured some level of dignity 
in whatever life-span they are alotted. Communism is cursed by
its tendency towards a static totalitarianism.

Capitalism, distributes wealth according to individual abilities
and in this sense grants seemingly infinite freedom to the individual.
But this freedom has a negative effect in that it allows people
the freedom to neglect their neighbors altogether, and even abuse
them. While Capitalism has the noble property of individual freedom,
it is cursed by its tendency towards over-dynamic anarchy.

 The Quantum of Democracy 

Democracy applys the means of captalism towards the 
goals of communism. 

In this sense, the horizontal and homogeneous distribution of wealth 
plays the role of "fairness", in a dynamic game while individual 
freedom allow people to compete vertically in a hierarchical sense.

Communism cannot be the means in a game; because a game cannot 
be static. Since communism establishes its homegenity rules immediately
and without exception, there is no "game" at all and it represents
a blank white canvas upon which no painting is allowed.

Capitalism is more like paint flying all over the place and landing 
nowhere specific. Everyone is allowed to do as they please without
regard to anyone else and to express themselves without repercussions
with absolute freedom. Because captalism is intrinsically "unfair", it 
cannot be the goal of a game, otherwise no one would willingly 
play the game. 

Democracy ideally combines the spatial qualities of communism with 
the temporal qualities of captialism. The intension is to overlay the
mutual responsibilities of communism, on top of the individual freedoms 
of capitalism, by making communistic ideals a distant goal in a game.
In this "game" rules or "laws" are used to regulate the Capitalistic 
means of the game which can become overly abusive. The rules prevent
players from having the infinite freedom granted by pure capitalism
but do not completely eliminate that freedom as pure communism would.

Capitalism has no rules and communism has absolute rules.
Democracy combines the best aspects of both these extreme 
and orthogonal perspectives to derive a quanta of Capitalism
and Communism in much the same manner that quantum physics
combines the orthogonal features of Particles" and Waves.
Here the individual is particulate in a society while the
mutual responsibilities of individuals to each other are 
represented by the more wave-like compositions of many individuals.

The stock market works in a similar manner. The idealistic goal is 
"fairness" or where everyone wins, but it is not enacted statically 
by forcing everyone to win equally and immediately like in communism. 
Rather, the "fairness of the game" is kept as a kind of virtual 
attractor like the faith in a god, goodness and fairness; as some 
infinite limit, in much the same manner as we have faith that a 
lottery is fair, even when we consistently loose. 


 Summary
Communism is metaphorically a goal, a wave, responsibility, spatial, stable.
Capitalism is metaphorically a means, a particle, freedom, temporal[1], unstable.

Democracy regulates the instability of capitalism and virtualises the 
totalitarian goal of communism, to produce a game in which individual
freedom is combined with laws in such a manner that the game is 
simultaneously almost chaotically dynamic and yet ideally and statically fair.

Democracy integrates the dualism of Communism-Capitalism in the same
manner that quantum physics integrates the Wave-Particle dualism.

This analogy between physics and politics is interesting in that it
suggests that "science" can be regarded as a dynamic game; combining
deterministic and subjective ideals as goals (theories), with 
constrained (regulated by natural laws), but objective and 
non-deterministic events (measurements). 

This is suggestive of further analogs and metaphors...

[1] Temporal here meaning that there are winners and loosers at some marked
    point in time. "Time is money."




World History

The Rand McNally Histomap of World History
by John B. Sparks, lists the relative progression of various peoples and 
nations in the course of recorded history from 2000 BC to the present. 
It's an area chart showing what seems to be relative influence but it is
largely limited to Europe, Asia, Egypt and the Middle East in its coverage, 
excluding many other continents. 

Immediately notable is that the Hindus Indians and China are 
consistently represented during this entire time period whereas 
all other discriminated groups of peoples are shown rising from 
anominity to some degree of world influence and then disappering 
again into relative obscurity. 

In other cases, discriminations seem to mutate over time, for instance
the more general categories of peoples listed at the top of the map
are:
  Mediterranean 
  Alpine
  Semitic
  Alpine and Proto-Nordic
  Mongolian
which are further subcategorized as
  Agean
  Egyptian
  Hitites
  Amorites
  Iranians
  Indians (Hindu)
  Huns
  Chinese
as initial people states in the year 2000 BC respectively. 

Some classifications such as "Hebrew" only appear around 1400 BC and 
seem to disappear from the map at 500 BC and resurface again
around 1950 under the label "Isreal". So the map should probably
be regarded as a political one more than a social/cultural one.

Also, "Japan" is only listed starting from about 1650 so the
map only represents a relative political map in the sense of
existing intercommunications between the national categories.