The Thin Veil Of Tyranny

Parliamentary democracy is the nominal assent of the governed to be governed. It is the thin veil of decency that covers the naked power of hierarchy.
There are two basic forms of societal organization: one is autonomous horizontal power, the other is hierarchical vertical power. Sadly, these days there is scarcely anyone left on the planet who understands that most people, for most of history, have lived in autonomous cooperative communities. So deeply entrenched are the habits of passivity and obedience, so brainwashed by schools and uniforms, people believe that blind obedience to authority is the natural lot of mankind. So lost to communal law are they, that the only crime, the only sin they know is to disobey hierarchical authority.
At one time, in autonomous society, the basis of authority was the family and the village elders, male and female.The young and inexperienced would submit to the wisdom and knowledge of their elders.
But in a modern democracy, in tyranny of hierarchy, the family and the elders have no authority.
As a capitalist society, authority is accumulated and centralised. Having being expropriated from the poor, their power is reallocated, flowing downwards through the pyramid of power.
This reallocated power is not based on consent and cooperation, but on reward and punishment.
State authority is founded on violence. The authority of the family and the elders is expropriated at gun point.
Standing behind every caring state functionary there is a policeman, an executioner.
 The atomised individual is left isolated, unable to relate to those around them, with no human point of reference, dependent on vertical power.
Instead of a free society, Democracy uses regulations that micro manage the actions of every individual. We never leave school.
Those who live in the underworld of the tyranny of Democracy have no concept of autonomy. They blame themselves for their unhappiness. They take their pills and every few years they obediently assent to more of the same.