The final verdict on a long discussion on the ideal political system was Anarchy. Moorcock came across this long ago, and infact, so did mankind. The problem is that the life of mankind is like the prisinor's paradox, where steps taken against exploitation end up being against the general interests of mankind, but if such steps aren't taken, then it leads to exploitation. An example is the arms race, which, while seeming irrational, and actually not beneficial to either party, still occored to protect interests. Then there was mutually assured destruction (turns out to be MAD) that emerged out of the arms race during the cold war.
There cannot exist an ideal system. Everyone pretty much knows this. What I resent, is however, all those things that come packaged with life. There are some choices that are prtty basic which we do not make. Our religion, caste, creed, mothertongue, and worst of all, nationality. We feel alligience to all these things even without wanting to. Things like these bring about blind faith in an ideology, and eventually, when the realisation dawns, leads to a revolution, which is very likely to be violent.
The fact that life comes packaged with a bunch of political ideas that you are expected to follow, beyond the norms and practices of the society, is somewhat of a matter of concern. It is not MY choice that I am a Hindu. In fact, I have no respect for the Hindu idea of God, not for any other religion. I am however, expected to sit for pujas. I am expected to participate in functions like the thread ceremony. These have their benefits, but it gets irritating when you are expected to live your life according to some principles that you feel is detrimental to a normal life. For example, if I am to follow my religion to the book, I am not allowed to pee standing up.
The worst part is that these things cannot be easily changed. The system needs to be changed such that political ideologies are chosen by each person after compelete knowledge of all the associated principles.
Culture might be a fair price to pay for a compelete lack of blind faith, but I donno.
1 comment:
I agree and disagree with your thoughts. agree that people must be given the right to decide. But think of it like this, not everyone is capable of making calculated decisions. These ideas of independent thinking and thinking in itself is restricted to the intelligentsia. The rules are written for the normal, the commoners as not everyone can go about making rules and decisions for themselves. The majority like to follow a certain code that is written by someone else.
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