1512. It is inevitable that all these bitter experiences must gradually change the mentality of terrestrial human beings and create a longing in their consciousness for more perfect social conditions and an improved standard of living. It is equally inevitable that society will gradually discover the causes of its unfortunate existence and realise that the knowledge won through this is not in favour of dictatorship. And thus antipathy towards all dictatorial oppression or leadership grows in the beings. There arises in the individuals a tendency to want to take part in decision making. This incipient desire to take part in decision making is the beginning of a form of society that is the diametrical opposite of dictatorship, namely the state described in the fourth chapter of Livets Bog under the concept of "democracy". The difference between "dictatorship" and "democracy" is thus that while under "dictatorship" the flock is ruled by only one dictator, one leader or one person who has absolutely all the power, under "democracy" the flock is ruled by all the individuals of the flock. All normal law-abiding individuals have the right to vote and, by means of this right, have a say in the administration of the state. It is obvious that under this form of government the administration of the state is far more sensitive or alive than it would be under "dictatorship". Perfect, one-hundred-per-cent "democracy" gives everyone equal rights, something that a dictatorship cannot do, because if a dictator were to give everyone such rights, he would no longer be a dictator or an autocrat, for in doing so he would have given his subjects the right to take part in the decision making. And the participation of the subjects in the state administration's decision making is "democracy".
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