There has been over whelming number of comments and several have been asking me to write a little longer with a little more explanation and detail, so this one is for them. If you don’t like that much materiel please keep that in mind it is on the request form the other readers. If you like me to write in detail for certain subject, please write the title of the post, so in future I can write about it as sequel from the post.
Any way this is so far the best way of governing ourselves and it calls the (Democracy)
I am going to talk about this most desired governing system by the most educated people of the world. I will say the way it is, I don’t have any political favorites or dislikes in this matter. I believe it has its flaws and is not perfect. It can be used to split the enemy for political purposes just like religions or God. You still have to compare with other systems to come to conclusions regarding the effectiveness. If I compare it with other systems, democracy protects human rights so far the best.
If you find, your favorite is something else like communism, socialism, Kingdoms, dictatorships, or religious governing systems then I would agree to disagree, so I would expect the same from you because I am not arguing I am simply trying to educate the one who wants to.
One man, one woman one vote has become a thing of the past. Now a days you have to make some changes according to the changes in the society. Sexes and in-between, have to be counted equally as well. As long as you pass the criteria of the genetics that you are a human being and at certain age, you are one vote. That is the foundation of the modern democratic system.
If you want to have the real meaningful democracy, you have to have the individual awareness of a CEO who can understand those voting rights first. You can’t just be voting democratically if you are influenced by the running person in any way he/she is your relative, friend or you just know him/her. Especially you can’t just vote because you have the same religion or have conservative ideology in modern day civilization, you have to vote with the best educated estimation.
Times have been changing and we have been evolving with the human rights. At some time they will clash with our old ideologies and would make it harder to govern the societies. If you look around that is what’s happening in all over the world right now. This can only change when the ordinary Joe becomes educated enough to vote for the real purpose of voting. It is all about the peaceful and comfortable living in a human community.
You bring the democracy to the religiously torn countries you will have the fundamentalists gain power from both sides, just like in Israel and Philistine situation. If you can call that a democracy, it is your personal opinion. I would respectively disagree, because an educated individual should vote beyond the sense of belonging to a religion and just for the security. Sense of belonging to the humanity and human rights should be the priority. If we all can live peacefully in the western countries regardless of our back ground then there is no excuse for the people all over the world. My question is? If the Israel was not a Jewish state would Philistine matter?
When I was in Pakistan 83% of the population was in the villages, if you logically look at that there would never be the real successful democracy, and the history shows it. One vote each individual brings in the people in power whom are influenced by the religion. Bringing in the democracy would automatically create chaos because you can’t run the country on the religion alone. Religions are and should be the path to spirituality exclusively. As a political governing system religions fail to provide either, because politics and spirituality don’t mix very well. We have more marshal laws in Pakistan than the democratic governing time in 60 years yet Pakistan was created by the referendum. The chaos is an on going process because people don’t want to separate the religion from the state.
If you look at the religion spiritually you don’t really need to play politics with it but there has never been a time when God was not used for the political purposes . Ironically today’s wars amongst Muslims use God exclusively, both sides chant “God is great” before shooting or firing something to kill the other Muslims. Poor God must be shaking his head in disgust.
These days most civilized or developed countries are becoming melting pot societies, because people are a lot more flexible and tolerant if educated. Mixing it up with the different races, nationalities, religions or even family back grounds.
Today’s nations have to accommodate people from different back grounds and protect their human rights. That itself is bringing the new set of problems because people seem to have sensitivity for and against the discrimination, so the court systems have to catch up with the fast social changes.
I believe the human rights have to be on top of the agenda for every governing system because people seem to become defensive if they have been living a certain life style for a while. When the new people come in whom don’t want to blend in or resist the changes from their previous life style, the conflicts can rise. Without the flexibility to accept and change or in other words evolving with the need of time, it is inevitable that the clashes will take place, level of education can dictate at what degree.
Looking at the language issue in the Quebec clearly a sign of the politics of the sense of belonging. It has nothing to do with the identity of being Canadian. Most of the people in the developed countries have been the generations of the immigrants with the legends to their previous countries, so regardless of the soft spot for the new immigrants they start to discriminate. This discrimination is usually fear based, which can be over come easily if people think they are just the people whom belong to the humanity.
If you learn only one thing that you belong to French, or English or any country you came from, these problems would always persist. Would you believe that this sense of belonging to a group holds you back or slow you down from reaching your potential individually and collectively.
There is certain number of immigrants required to keep the workforce up, to bring the tax revenue so immigration is a crucial part of the system. Some people feel that they are just too good for certain jobs so the immigrants would have to fill those jobs.
The problem is the sense of belonging which is behind all kind of discrimination.
One country can have provinces and territories and languages but the real connection is the humanity. If your sense of belonging to your belonging group is out of whack you would be sensitive and fearful for losing your identity, but if your identity is humanity you have no need to fear. Just like God and spirituality provide all the security without the boundaries and religions and countries provide partial security with the boundaries.
This language battle brings a story to mind I read as a growing up boy, since it was long ago I don’t remember who was the writer so I would call it ” Author unknown”. Fundamental idea of the story is the same but I made some amendments to connect to Canada,
I am going to call it Canada.
” There once was a king whom had 13 kids, when he got sick he called upon all his kids to come and see him. He told everyone to bring two sticks along, everyone showed up and they were told by him to pull one stick out and break it. Without a doubt they all were able to do that, then he told them to make a bundle with the rest of the sticks and try it again. Of course no one even the strongest one could not break the bundle. So the old king told them to stick together like the sticks so no one can break you”.
Even I gave the example of one nation but deep in my heart, my desire is that the humanity can stick together so we can combat our issues like global poverty, hunger, health, security, even global warming and related issues as one humanity.
In the melting pot societies you can’t distinguished the identity of the individual. There are mixture of black and white, brown, yellow, red or even all color kids. Religious and cultural mixture have been going on for a very long time, so every identity is blurred but one fact stood strong and that is the individual spirituality for the humanity.
Especially in the mixed societies, this day and age you just can’t govern in any other way unless you bring in the human rights, because all groups discourage the individual to mix.
It all boils down to how to identify a human being. If genetics mixture is in the making of an other human being then they should not discourage, but they do and interestingly they have never been able to, and even now can’t stop it. If one can qualify to be a human his/her rights have to be protected thus religion, race, or nationality has to take a back seat, accept the reality and stop discriminating against the individual whom has no fault of his/her in the process of making.
No one not even a religion or a nation should have the right to discriminate against the individual who has qualified as a human being. Being a human being one can vote to elect the other human beings to run the governmental affairs. Our political systems may vary but that purpose and the desire of running the system is the same. We do our best to send our best to run the government, if they don’t do the job we can fire them after four years. Great system, only if it works ideally.
When elected, the members of parliament sit in an assembly to find out that he/she is just a back bencher regardless of the number of the votes he/she has received. For instance an elected MP from the up north, where the population is very thin, can receive much fewer votes to be elected. Compare to from the densely populated areas like Toronto, so the number of votes can’t be compared with the urban area. An MP can receive a large number of votes but can’t achieve a high ranking job because of the politics. He/she can become a back bencher regardless of the number of votes.
The successful political party forms a government with its brightest minds regardless of where they came from, that means the power is in the hands of the party brass. Most people vote for the political party’s ideology, if is true, then we have a divided political system.
There is nothing wrong with it until politics start to play politics. Sometime things are different in the core hidden agendas, and those ideologies don’t really believe in the democratic system. There goal is to come in the power with the politics. Once in power they systematically reduce opposing groups into nothing by robing them with negative propagandas until they become meaningless.
All political parties should be explaining their agendas and they should have clearance form the democratic values ethical board. In a democratic society all parties should be required to have a system which should be holding and legally binding them to the democratic values with the human individual rights guaranteed. So when they come in power they are forced to follow the criteria. Our societies have vast number of people with vast differences in the thinking so in a democratic society party systems are appreciated.
Majority should rule, that is the most fundamental rule of the democracy, but is it? In reality we don’t really have a democracy if you look at the party system. The number of votes don’t matter, it is getting the seat and put the highly voted MPs to the back seat and the person you want to get in the governing job in front regardless of the votes. It is all politics and in politics nothing is perfect, but it is our duty to make the best out of what we have got.
Democracy, well it is what you get, It is better than the dictatorship, communism, kingdom or a religious government. The right and wrong can be political which is the individual problem and sometime it is undemocratic.
When the political affairs have to be run by the brightest minds, the number of votes don’t mean anything. One thinker can save a ship full of emotionally charged feelers, by pointing out future problems but a feeler can teach people to be emotionally intelligent, to be compassionate in governing.
The biggest difference in running a business and running a country is that the governing party is the one who gets fired not the other way around, so believing a good businessman would make a good leader to run a government is not necessarily true.
If you go a little further up, our organization of the united nations, it should be based on the democratic values as well but we have a veto system by the powerful countries, right or wrong is not the issue it is undemocratic.
When you preach that you have democratic system yet you use undemocratic values openly it is clearly politics, personally I would say clean it up or don’t lie. I don’t disagree the affairs have to be run with the best and the brightest of the minds but don’t mess it up by being politically correct just come out and say it the way it is.
The affairs of the democratic organization have to be run by its brightest minds which makes it politically correct but not really democratic because one vote one man or woman just is not true. Large population means nothing when it comes to the under developed countries, so if you look at the setting, the united nation is not democratic.
The members of the United Nations are a mixed bag as well, we still have kingdoms, authoritarian dictatorships and religious governments and on top of that veto system, so the power is not really related to the democracy it has always been related with the politics. Politics is not always the villain or wrong it’s just the politics. Politics should be carefully crafted by the brightest of the mankind. Mankind has been, is and will be evolving until we hit our potential so until then no system is ultimate and flawless.
In my opinion if one wants to run for the office he/she should go to school for the political science and learn how to run the government. No one should be able to run without the education what is required for the office. If one has the means, for instance if you are rich and board, politics should not be another adventure it should be taken as a serious business so the schooling should be compulsory.
If a businessman runs a country there is no compassion, sheer logic is not enough to run the political office because some time numbers don’t add up. Democracy has its flaws but so far it’s proven to be better than any other system man kind has used for governing himself. It will improve as we evolve because it does not have the cap like religious governing systems do.
Most religions focus on the society as a whole but are extremely disrespectful for the individual who thinks freely or uses free will to live life. Shunning the strong willed and attracting the weak and vulnerable is their politics. Fear of God, death, punishment in the grave and hell are the foundation for the politics of control.
Human rights focus on the individual freedom, free speech and individual’s dignity. Our history is full of murderous regimes and dictators who used religions to gain power and control the populations. Religious systems of governing uses fear of hell and greed of the heaven to entice the individual to sacrifice his/her freedom, enjoyment and bounties of this life for the next.
The individual is dammed in an authoritarian society if he/she believes that, and dammed if he/she doesn’t, either way the individual is at loss. The powerful and controlling party wins so the incentives are there to control.
If you look at the religious architectural regardless of the religion, the monumental buildings with the unbelievable cost, shows the lucrative business of the religions. From the architect to recent money laundering are the clear signs the human individual duped by the powerful.
An ordinary man seeks spirituality but ends up buying politics which makes him/her even more vulnerable to be used as a puppet. Why individual awareness, human dignity and human rights are so important for the individual? Because in the end of the day, it is the individual who is responsible for his/her life which is lost or lived, yet the society carries on beyond the individual’s life.
If the promised after death is not a reality the individual is at even a bigger loss because now he/she is really duped even robbed by the society. We should have a system set up for the individual’s protection because he/she is the life and blood of the society. When the politics of the powerful gets a hold of any governing system which is most of the time, the individual’s importance is lost.
The greater good is one thing but the politics of robing the individual of his/her rights is clearly an injustice. God is the most known yet the unknown entity, it is human phenomenon which is used by the human beings for generations and generations.
In the end of an east Indian movie titled ( kabi socha be na tha) there was a quote by the producers. And I “quote”
“The latest developments in the modern physics points out that there is no objective reality”. Our perceptual “real” world is nothing more than a manifestation of the thoughts, feelings and beliefs in our mind. But so is our imagination. Isn’t it. “End quote”.
Imagination can create and manifest individual’s reality, especially if one has a creative mind with means and opportunities. From music to great writings, to all kind of human knowledge to invent and manufacture everything including religions for the convenience and the benefits of the individual and collectively on one side yet for the destruction of the mankind as well.
When it comes to religions, God and the Devil are the most prominent to mention, there are a lot of not so well known but quite popular entities even mentioned in the Holy books like gins, ghosts, and in our modern day movie super heroes even werewolf, Dracula are part of our daily life.
As our knowledge grows we are becoming aware of the powerful effects of placebos, unexplainable yet reality. God and Devil or other human phenomenon are there if you believe and not if you don’t. Personally I believe God’s powerful effects on the individual’s life if you believe you can see it as a pearl other wise you just see water and can’t benefit from God’s existence.
If you get mental disorder like Alzheimer’s you don’t have the capacity to understand the realities. It’s all about the installed knowledge and its created realities, one can actually live in the thoughts, feelings, beliefs or imagination, like a child who has an invisible imaginary friend. We shrug it off because of the notion that child would outgrow the phase of his/her life and we minimize it the same way if the individual has the mental disorder, but we still kill each other over the differences of opinion, especially when it comes to religions, even if it is not the physical reality.
As we go through the rapidly evolving human knowledge, we get confused and judge each other’s knowledge as bogus and groundless because of the politics of our sense of belonging to our group.
People even under the authoritarian rules disagree with the freedom lovers because of the sense of belonging. A dictator would use the individuals as puppets and tools to keep the powers. The religions would do the same but worse by promising the rewards of heaven and the fear of punishing hell.
The twist is that the God is portrayed as a dictator instead of the individual, a clever way to put the blame on the unknown entity, and to take it off the shoulders of the individual who is the real dictator.
Whether it’s God or the man who is calling the shots, the bottom line is the politics of the control and power. If you look at the democracy which allows one man or a woman one vote, it has its own flaws, like an individual gets million votes yet becomes a back bencher and someone from a remote area becomes a minister because of the resources even he/she got few thousand votes so one man or a woman one vote is questionable and most likely falls.