Democracy, Egalitarianism, Pluralism

Because the Modern emergence of Democracy involves the destruction of Medieval hierarchies, it is often interpreted as an Egalitarian trend.  Now, an important factor in any Theocracy is the concentration of access to scriptures.  But, as is concretely clear from Gutenberg's invention, the scriptures that ground Medieval hierarchies are pluralized, the result of which is universally equal access to them.  So, while Hierarchy and its leveling are different moments in the historical developments, the process itself can be interpreted as fundamentally one of Pluralization, with Egalitarianism as the hypostasization of one of its phases.  Accordingly, lacking in the Egalitarian-Inegalitarian debates that have been prominent in Political Philosophy since the emergence of Democracy is any attention to the possibility that the essence of the latter is its Pluralism.