It is not an emergent property or function of matter, and the unquestioned belief that it must be is the greatest superstition promoted by scientists today. Consciousness, its origins, and its role in nature remain unknown to modern science.
The world as experience belongs to the basic word I-It. The basic word I-You establishes the world of relation.
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots,” and he [Adams] lamented that so much more blood would have to flow before the lesson was learned.
It is the specific danger of all forms of government based on equality that the moment the structure of lawfulness—within whose framework the experience of equal power receives its meaning and direction—breaks down or is transformed, the powers among equal men cancel each other out and what is left is the experience of absolute impotence. Out of the conviction of one’s own impotence and the fear of the power of all others comes the will to dominate, which is the will of the tyrant.
