Democracy Revisited

With the beginning of the year, I'd like to share an essay I've been working on for quite some time now. Over the past year, I've read all of the founding literature that I could my hands on as well as some Edmund Burke which has inspired the following essay. I find that with anything I create, the more I improve it, the more I notice how far it is from perfection. This, for me, is one of the most difficult parts of performing a piece of music. The more time you spend practicing the more you realize just how far away you are from materializing the perfect rendition that you have in your imagination. This tragedy of perfection can be dealt with in only two ways. You can accept that nothing is ever perfect, but convince yourself that it's better to have something nonperfect than nothing at all. While this may be the more prudent approach, I've been tempted by the latter which is "if at first you don't succeed, lower your expectations until you do". In any case, I made the best argument that I know how and I stand firmly behind every word. It would be wonderful to receive any form of feedback, particularly if you disagree with me (believe it or not, my mind has been changed before). I'm sharing it as I google doc link only because it's easier to keep things formatted there. If you'd like a PDF or a different format I would be more than happy to oblige. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ie5acgppZ-tvrNiD2JMOGXwXjEcSIXncDhbQ326v3rw/edit