It is a very important review article raising acute and essential questions.



I think there are two issues which need full exploration and if we understand those we can start building the next installment of "democracy".



The first issue is the "user".



We can safely say that through human history we have tried all possible governing methods, social structures, and also all possible economic models and financial systems.

But somehow after a while we always run into a dead end, inequality, tension and an imminent breakup.



Our whole historical development has been through jumps when the actual civilization has become intolerable and a violent eruption catapulted us into a new state.

Today we are nearing a similar eruption despite the desperate and honest efforts to avoid it.



So what makes us repeat the same mistakes again and again, what prevents us using the seemingly perfect ideas, institutions in a sustainable way?



It is our inherently self-centered, egoistic nature.

Somehow in human beings the instinctive feeling of interconnections, mutual trust and mutual guarantee prevalent in nature has disappeared at a certain point of our evolution.

As a result we are forced to care for ourselves, compete for survival with each other and try to succeed at the expense of others.



This is not something evil, it is not a sin, this is the way human beings evolved. And so far the resulting "ego breakout", "egoistic evolution" drove us to unprecedented highs, inventions, explorations, technical development in a positive manner.



But today we have reached a crossroads when it becomes ever clearer that if we do not try to harness our nature, like a skillful rodeo rider channeling our egoistic energy in the right direction we might not make it much further and destroy ourselves.



So the first issue is that we will not be able to implement democracy optimally, in a sustainable way until we adapt, correct our inherent human nature.



The second issue is "globalization".



The problem with our nature has been compounded by the fact that we also evolved into a globally interconnected and interdependent human system, thus the contradiction and paradox in between our egoistic, individualistic, ruthlessly competitive behavior and the globally integral, interdependent conditions we exist in has grown intolerable.



If we want to build a new structure a new democracy it cannot be a national, not even a regional one. Somehow we have to build a global, supra-national structure, supervising body, that can "see", "understand", and "balance" the whole system, since in a global, integral system every little action immediately changes the whole system, thus we cannot even move a finger before analyzing how it affects the rest of the system.



Thus what we need first of all is a global, integral education program so we all understand ourselves, and the system we evolved into, and only based on such understanding will we be able to start building a new system, a new democracy, new economics that is not going to end in crisis and becomes a sustainable foundation for the future.



Only a new, adapted human being can build the right, "crisis-proof" world.