The absence of a true, singular unity is what makes democracy work. It is not a defect but a feature – the distributed, self-correcting interplay and communicative entanglement of competing forces. No central node dictates the whole; instead, democracy thrives on its lack of a fixed core, constantly reshaping itself through feedback, #negotiation, and adaptation. Its resilience comes from this structural openness, where dissent, disagreement, and debate don’t threaten the system but constitute it.
(An ecology of difference can not be fully defined and that is why it can never be fully controlled, or #commercialised.)
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Democracy as an Ecology of Difference