Regardless of its imperfections still the democracy is by far the best system we have got, I still believe we can make it better with time as we evolve from our emotion voting. Emotional voting is a reality of all human societies, it has been is and will be for a long time until we all think like a CEO. Today you can see people vote to whomever is able to get them exited by giving convincing speeches about religions, nationalism, security, economy or poverty etc. If we all fall for the speeches or are emotionally attached to our belonging groups we are under the influences of the sense of belonging.
This is just as bad as having a democracy in an uneducated society where people would vote without knowing its real value. If you lose an election, you get so upset that you can start killing and dyeing over it. It is not a flaw of the democracy, it is the human reality of being emotional.
In democracy majority is a majority even if it is a close one, you just can’t pick up the weapons if you don’t win. Being civilized and educated should be the first demand for a democratic society. It is unfortunate that we have problems with the democracy. People don’t understand the real system of democracy because they lack the self understanding. They vote emotionally and if they don’t like the results it is not the fault of the democratic system, it is related to the problem of emotional voting.
Democracy is a valuable tool for governing an educated human society, it needs the individual’s understanding of his/her rights, as well as and or at least somewhat, the general knowledge of how the democratic system of governing works. If you don’t have an interest and you let any and everything happen in the society, you are not using your rights.
These days especially the young people need to be educated about their rights as they reach the age of maturity. They have to learn and understand their emotional connection to their hormones before they reach the age, it will help them to prepare themselves as the changes arrive. Not only they will go through the turbulent zone to save the relationships in their lives they save themselves a great deal of confusions, regarding their feelings and realities.
The value of the spirituality is not only related with the religions, our school systems should have a clear agenda of the equal human rights and it should be enforced as a rule to the kids, especially if they have been taught prejudice at home. The families should be exposed to counselling if needed and made aware of the court decisions about the equal rights. Helping the society to run smoothly is not a privilege it is actually a duty as well as a right of each and every one of us.
That level of understanding can help the individual to evolve, understand and accept that in the modern day democracy people can have the difference of opinion but still are able to live together.
I go to Folklorama, every year and see all different cultures displaying their culture with pride. Great to see the sense of freedom in a society where every one is treated equally. My desire is to see a pavilion which demonstrate all nation becoming a melting pot humanity for instance mixed race children representing their identity with pride. Regardless of all the freedom we still have stereo typing going on in our homes, even the pope and the supreme court have made their decisions against the prejudice the problems still persist, it can only be dealt with the individual him/herself. To me proof is in the pudding, just look at the mixed race children. They are perfectly functioning human beings, president Obama is just a fine example of that. ( back to emotional voting)
If you vote because you want the businesses to be free to charge whatever percentage of profit and don’t pay taxes you are voting for the extreme selfishness, not spiritual because human insecurities will play a role to hoard money thus it would be taken out of circulation which would make the rich richer and poor to get poorer in the long run it would create chaos.
If you vote for, and stick with your group of interest like trade unions or any kind of cause like sexual orientation, or gender issues you are voting for the other extreme because the voting is for the human rights, equality and social justice.
Politics always make people to stick with their belonging groups, whether they are good for governing the whole government or not. If you make a lot of noise you would get your way, that is the reason political parties need a lot of cash, and when there is cash involve the votes are being sold. If you are selling your vote, whether it’s for your religious beliefs of sexual liberation, it is not a good democracy.
The individual has to know the equal human rights and the workable governing system are the most important things. Even in modern democracies there is a big percentage of voters fall for and let their emotions get the best of them. If we have the democracy we need to educate people to understand everything what is necessary for the human rights. If we promote democracy for the world we need to educate, educate and educate people all over the world. We can only achieve the peace we all seek through the education of the ordinary individual. Until an individual has evolved from his emotional sense of belonging to the real sense of belonging to the humanity, we would be running in circles, so instead of spending and sending armed forces we need to focus on the education of the individual. Only then he would learn to create balance between sense of belonging and sense of freedom.
A CEO’s knowledge is required to understand the democracy and anybody who is an emotional voter is not a CEO. A doctor without the people skills, a judge without compassion and a policeman with too much passion are the people who came out of the tunnel as successful professionals but not as successful individuals.
We need to be taught not forced because we have the ability to self-regulate and we can mix and match the existing knowledge to do the justice to the people and self beyond the boundaries of the learnt knowledge.
Since there are no boundaries of knowledge for an evolving organism, we have to relate and deal with each situation we face. You can use the previous knowledge as a guideline but you have to have a human touch as well, so you don’t carry some kind of guilt along the way.
In the end of the day you can’t say oh I was just doing my job if your decisions hurts someone, if you are a decent individual you can’t just hide behind your job, especially from yourself.
It is not just the job, it relates with you as an individual as well because of your free will and you will have to live with yourself knowing you have hurt someone innocent.
Good times, a magazine issue Oct 2012, Page 16” Quote “ “We are interdependent in our society and if you can lighten the load by bringing many hands and shoulders and backs to the task, you can be successful.”
On TV’s discovery channel I heard that spruce trees don’t really have deep root system, but they can withstand big storms and harsh weather. The reason is and it makes sense that their roots entangle together to help each other.
This natural phenomenon is present in human beings as well. As an individual we feel and think about ourselves as weak and vulnerable, yet we are an integral part of the real strength of humanity. Our reliance on the community and community’s reliance on the individual may become confusing for the individual, if he/she has been given the education of inferiority, like you are born sinner and you are nothing compare to God.
The fabric of community depends on the thread and that thread is the individual. Community may have an agenda to keep the individual weak, so they can be controlled but if everybody is dependent on the community then how the community is going to get its strength?.
It’s essential for the community to make the individual strong so the help is coming from the basic source. Any system which reduces the power of the individual ends up in dictatorship, monarchy, communism and religious authoritarian governing systems and they have been proven wrong and failed systems for governing the human societies. Any governing system which doesn’t comply with human nature, eventually will fail, communism failed after seventy years of success just because it chokes the individual from sense of freedom. All other failed systems including communism promote sense of belonging to the extreme and fail to promote sense of freedom, it is not one or the other, it is the balance of both.
We have a natural desire to be free as an individual yet we have the deep social need to be with the community, this extremely opposing nature needs the balancing, and it can only be done by the individual individually, not forced upon by the community. If the individual can self- discipline or regulate him/herself the community does not have to force its agendas. It all depends on the education, we need to encourage the individual’s deeply ripened spiritualty so he/she can automatically function as a CEO who is independent yet altruistic.
Let’s look at it from a different angle the modern science has been discovering things from inside out. “The Economist” (Aug 18th 2012 issue of the magazine has a front page story.
`Microbes maketh man“ “Quote“ The traditional view is that a human body is a collection of 10 trillion cells which are themselves the product of 23,000genes. If the revolutionaries are correct, these numbers radially underestimate the truth. For in the nooks and crannies of every human being and especially in his or her guts, dwells the micro biome: 100 trillion bacteria of several hundred species bearing 3m non- human genes. The biological Robespierre’s believe these should count, too; that humans are not single organisms, but super organisms made up of lots of smaller organisms working together. It might sound perverse to claim bacterial cells and genes as part of the body, but the revolutionary case is a good one. For the bugs are neither parasites nor passengers. They are, rather, fully paid-up members of a community of which the human“ host“ is but a single (if dominating) member“ (end Quote)
This reinforces my view of the God as a human society or humanity and human as the cells and other creatures as part of the whole picture. The vegetarians may not like this but this is the law of the nature, that nature provides food for every creature for survival. We may live intellectually and make sense about the things with our compassionate feelings, but facts of hunger, survival and reproduction remain to carry on the life of specie and literally God.
We still can be, have been and will be savage beasts at times, but we have been progressively marching towards our potential. One can say God would not let the bamby a nice baby deer an innocent creature to die for food, but if it provides for the little kittens it is nature’s way of providing life for life. It may not make any sense to the passionate feeler but always remember we are a work in progress.
We may learn more of life’s wisdoms as we evolve. From the drugs to the technology, social systems to the religions. If we always come up with better and more effective ways to deal with our problems, that mean there is still room to improve. So we can’t be passionate about human knowledge. Even scientifically proven things can be upgraded and so do the religious rules can be bent or changed as the society changes and evolves.
When it comes to human evolution towards potential there are no hold bards so there is nothing written solid, yes not even the Ten Commandments. Everything is subjected to change, so where are we going, well we are approximately on the mile ten or may be twenty out of hundred and we have changed so much in last little while, only time will tell, we can’t even imagine the next ten years.
Every era or humanity has been working to domesticate human beings, especially the religions work against the wild beast we all carry inside. Regardless of the religion or any other human social system, if the domestication is done by force or fear it will eventually fail, because as the individual finds him or herself in a free place they will defy the rules.
Strict rules would reduce the crime rate initially but the population would feel oppressed and rebel. These days with internet all the news travels around the world with no restrictions, so the people know how the things are done all over the world. This knowledge gives the opportunity to everybody to compare themselves with others.
Some may think about it as a problem, but it should be taken as an opportunity to come together and create a justice system with the human rights regardless of belonging religion or nation. In the past the success and the spread of the religion has been on the base of justice system it was providing. In the strict rules society you may have lower crime rate, but today with our evolved social systems we think that suppression of any kind is a crime as well.
It may seem that crimes are mostly related with the individuals, but our groups have been committing crimes against the humanity. So every system whether it was brought on by the people, as empires or religions by the prophets they all have some dark history. If life lesson is to control, then never forget that as a mortal control can rob your happiness, health and everything in between, so be aware that you have the control to control your control.