From Wikipedia: "Democracy [...] encompasses social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination."

From Wikipedia: "Democracy [...] encompasses social, economic and cultural conditions that enable the free and equal practice of political self-determination." This article is not alone in having a very narrow and technical conception of democracy as solely a method of election and legislation. That this in itself is not sufficient for a flourishing and liberated society seems obvious. The real issue seems to be how to encourage actual, real, functioning democracy, instead of installing a thin veneer of technical democracy on top of a society whose deeper currents are undemocratic. For some reason I'm thinking about the story of how the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia has historical roots in the Communist suppression of Zappa-influenced psychedelic rock band The Plastic People of the Universe. Maybe the world just needs more psychedelic rock.