I don't want to jump on all your posts, Maurice, but I'll just say something about this because it's something that Nietzsche has a lot to say about (and I've just written a book about him!).
There would seem to be two interpretations of democratic and aristocratic societies respectively. On the one hand, it is tempting to see democracy as rational and just, and aristrocracy as elistist and unfair. This is more or less the modern perspective.
However, Nietzsche argues almost the opposite: democracy aims at 'levelling' everyone, and making them all the same. As a result, the rarer and more gifted individual is oppressed, and denied self-expression. As regards aristocracy, Nietzsche sees this as the natural way for humans to evolve higher 'types'. So, for Nietzsche, the purpose of society as a whole is to produce more evolved individuals. Democracy undermines this process, and leads to a stunting of human growth.
Discuss!
