Democratica - a lifestyle synthesis. Part 1. Haruna Darbo. MJoTA 2013 v7n2 p0730
Whether we believe that mankind hailed from the cauldrons of mighty
mountains, the alluring depths of the oceans, or the conjuring folds of
the clouds, mankind is endowed with certain unique attributes that make
us the preferred guardians of the other animals and plants, the ones we
can see and those we cannot see. One of those attributes is innovation.
This singular attribute of mankind has all but ensured our own survival
and the survival of many other species we brought with us to the valleys
and those we found in the alcoves along the banks of rivers and
streams. It is also responsible for our reverence for social engineers
like Cicero and James Madison
among many others.
We are able to adapt to newer environs and
situations no matter how difficult or challenging, and to sustain and
nurture this intrinsic attribute, we accommodate our fellows who are, by
positive design, different and even strange. The idea is that the
variety and our diversity is a significant element in the matrix of our
inventiveness and ultimate survival as a species. From our proficiency
in fighting disease to our poly-valence in manufacture and process.
A product of our innovation that has helped us to tame our extremes
thereby laying the foundation for community with our fellows, is the Rule
of Law as a governance tool.
We manufacture law from our library of
standards and measures in our cultures and it is the reason we are able
to form communities of all manner in all sorts of environments we
encounter. In the sweltering humidity of jungles and in the
asphyxiating heat of deserts. In the gravity-defying ambiance of space and
the cosmos, and in the repulsive folds of crater lakes and the lowest
valleys. In the near-permanence of ice and snow. We are not able to sustain
life as we know it for any appreciable length of time in some of these
places but live nonetheless if in momentary bliss. Although law is
unique to each of our unique environments and communities, because it is
manufactured from standards and measures of culture, the Rule of Law is
a prerequisite for the greater health of all communities for as Cicero
would share, in anger or in conflict, we are jettisoned to the unending
quest for peace and healthful development. The same can be said of a
state of banal indifference and lethargic disinterest.
The conflicts that dawn on us, are mainly of our manufacture and by the
same virtues of our innovation, but they cause us enormous chagrin and
many of them are preventable. For solace, they pale in comparison with
those elusive conflicts we prevent. We do not however give ourselves
enough credit for our capacity to innovate, and so we trundle on from
one preventable conflict to the other, sequestering resolution to our
religions and to divine intervention. We have already been endowed by
God with the comprehensive gift of innovation, in order that we may
manufacture resolution to these and those conflicts.
