Each change positions in relation to events. As a way of life it isn't dependent on any particular style. It's not dependent on machinery, capital, wealth and all of this. In fact, when those factors come into play they tend to obscure the democracy as a way of life since they introduce the venom that accumulates under other systems that democracy putatively overthrew. There is a quiet and personal side of democracy as well as a raucous one.
Alienation drives the principle motivation, the organizing energies in a democracy.
It is felt as a reality by individuals that impact every move they make. It is not an irrational fear of the social order collapsing or feeling of entering some final judgment. Mythic fears are prompts from the soul so that the person will find a more substantial point of attachment in reality. If they lack the grace of God, nothing more can be done. They become possessed.