Democracy Ha ha!!!
Democracy and Parliamentary form of governance. Probably one of the greatest pranks played all time. Someone thought okay, how do we waste people's time and money for nothing in return. Have a parliament, let people talk or fight for hours and not do anything.
Its strange that Democracy is clouted as the greatest acheivement of all times for India while it really is one of the greatest failings. It is this democracy that inflicted mediocrity as a curse forever. Democracy is where 10 idiots can override one intellectual, because the numbers favor the idiots. Beware in any society the idiots always outnumber the intellectuals. And if we go only by numbers the idiots are going to win hands down.
But still democracy has kept going. There have been some Himalayan blunders, but we as a society have survived through Red-Tapism, Liberalism, War and Emergency. But is it because by some means we have elected the intellectuals. No surely not. Its because a few statesmen have arisen against the odds and rules over these numbers. The way the polity is organized, the executive has all powers. If the executives, the leaders and the bureacrats are good enough, they manage to get these numbers to nod to their ideas and back them up.
Like, when they introduced the Bill for Divorce in Parliament, Nehru said, even if this entire house opposes this, I would still support it. That was all it needed, the numbers followed as they beleived in Nehru's Judgement as they did not have their own. But the inherent problem with this model is, this crowd could follow anyone. And if the bad idea is accepted by this group, then the numbers end up deciding on something without knowing its impacts.
That some people getting some seats into the parliament can decide the future of the polity and not even because they have majority, but because they could black mail people who do not have majority essentially shows the failing of democracy.
That people could fight and shout and waste our money into meaningless meetings and squat around in inaction is an indication of how succesful and vibrant our democracy has been. That parties decide their ideologies based on their personal opinions with no relevance to the ones who elected them show that neither is democracy of the people and by the people. And that each one over rules the other shows democracy is not for the people either.
For so long since the beginning of the coalition era, since the age where we started watching parliamentary proceedings on TV, we have seen nothing but fights. We have seen politicians show their original professions, to show their effrontery in rowdyism. We have never seen meaningful discussions in parliament. There has not been a single statement in Parliament worth remembering in this era, and if we still beleive democracy is a success we are fooling ourselves and our conscience.
But is there any other options. I couldn't think of any. We could only hope for more statesmen to come out and countenanace this menace live with it and still perform for this nation.
Its strange that Democracy is clouted as the greatest acheivement of all times for India while it really is one of the greatest failings. It is this democracy that inflicted mediocrity as a curse forever. Democracy is where 10 idiots can override one intellectual, because the numbers favor the idiots. Beware in any society the idiots always outnumber the intellectuals. And if we go only by numbers the idiots are going to win hands down.
But still democracy has kept going. There have been some Himalayan blunders, but we as a society have survived through Red-Tapism, Liberalism, War and Emergency. But is it because by some means we have elected the intellectuals. No surely not. Its because a few statesmen have arisen against the odds and rules over these numbers. The way the polity is organized, the executive has all powers. If the executives, the leaders and the bureacrats are good enough, they manage to get these numbers to nod to their ideas and back them up.
Like, when they introduced the Bill for Divorce in Parliament, Nehru said, even if this entire house opposes this, I would still support it. That was all it needed, the numbers followed as they beleived in Nehru's Judgement as they did not have their own. But the inherent problem with this model is, this crowd could follow anyone. And if the bad idea is accepted by this group, then the numbers end up deciding on something without knowing its impacts.
That some people getting some seats into the parliament can decide the future of the polity and not even because they have majority, but because they could black mail people who do not have majority essentially shows the failing of democracy.
That people could fight and shout and waste our money into meaningless meetings and squat around in inaction is an indication of how succesful and vibrant our democracy has been. That parties decide their ideologies based on their personal opinions with no relevance to the ones who elected them show that neither is democracy of the people and by the people. And that each one over rules the other shows democracy is not for the people either.
For so long since the beginning of the coalition era, since the age where we started watching parliamentary proceedings on TV, we have seen nothing but fights. We have seen politicians show their original professions, to show their effrontery in rowdyism. We have never seen meaningful discussions in parliament. There has not been a single statement in Parliament worth remembering in this era, and if we still beleive democracy is a success we are fooling ourselves and our conscience.
But is there any other options. I couldn't think of any. We could only hope for more statesmen to come out and countenanace this menace live with it and still perform for this nation.
posted by Devanathan at 10:40 AM
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