HIERARCHICAL EXISTENCE IN THE AGE OF REPUBLICANISM: AN IDEOLOGICAL INSURGENCY

Abstract

This essay critically examines the phenomenon of republicanism or democracy (both are used here interchangeably). It attempts to show that the said system of governance clashes with the human nature. In a hierarchical social structure, political mobilisation proceeds from the nuclear family. A community of families come together to give their allegiance to another family. The 'individual' operates within this power vertical. On the other hand, an atomised libertarian society reverses this mechanism and relies on individuals who pursue a horizontal existence. In such a society the ancestral ties of blood and soil make way for transactional relationships which revolve around the matter of facts of daily life, thereby, severing the organic link with the past and future. It has also been shown that monarchy perfectly aligns with the human nature. In it, sovereignty is personified granting the ultimate point of reference. It remains the only arrangement that concurrently upholds the aggregate past, the aggregate present, and the aggregate future of the folk that it rules, and that even the republics incorporate some of elements of the monarchical age like associating itself with the dominant culture to keep its space wedded to the historical flow.