Friday, June 29, 2012

Democracy is fairly new guys

When people parrot about democracy and it’s values and how we have to live in democracy as if that is immutable and that is our reference...that is what we have to follow forever I pity the ignorance of people who listen to them.
In India democracy sells.Not in it's purest form but just to do 'pom-pom' talking. You get laurels, sabashi if you add worlds like "India's great democracy" blah...blah in their speeches and debates.
But changes happen at all levels.
The problem with people is they don’t realize that change happens macro level and also at micro level. Micro level change is for example change in fashion. Change in technology. But macro level change are these geo-political changes like like huge empires coming down, huge institutions starting from nowhere, huge cultures coming to dust.
People never expected a great Mayan Civilization will fall from within. People at those times never even dreamed Roman empire to fall. People never thought USSR will fall. For 300 years Vijayanagara rules entire southern India and you can imagine 5-6 generations of one family might have easily lived under one dynasty. Do you think anybody in those times would have imagined the glorious Vijayanaga will fall..to that extent that there will be not even a trace of their kingdom?.

What are we now in this tiny democracy compared to that? My father (just my father) saw British ruling India. Some concocted Democracy started around that time. My grandfather would have never even thought British would fall! So when you put this into perspective democracy is nothing. Already we see democracy is not functioning as it was ideally imagined.
But people who gain from so called democracy just say it is great and we have to follow blah,blah. But what is most annoying is common man also just parrot what they listen and even get a pseudo happiness that democracy is working.
This soo called stable system with short history is not getting its marks.How can a weak can control stronger. Inspite of how much we want to have that way isn't it against nature?
It is only the perception that is changed.
Even in democracy there are strong leaders and it always happen that people galvanize towards those leaders.

Have fun in what ever 'cracy' you are right not. Never know what happens next. If nothing happens for you then ask next gen to be ready so they can see through these stuff without any discomfort.

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