The democracy, undoubtedly, is the best system the man has
ever thought of. However, the larger the size of a democracy bigger the problem,
it has to face. A larger size, generally, means bigger challenges of managing wider
diversity. Individual freedom, the unique selling point of modern democracy, is
being viewed as the essence of democracy. However, the modern man has not
earned his freedom.
It was hurriedly granted to him by the impatient leaders who
witnessed with lots of surprises, the fast crumbling fortunes of the feudal
system. The half baked democracies sold hopes at highly discounted rates to
gain power and distributed ‘human rights’ free of cost to the ‘powerful’ people
to ensure that they do not lose power. At the end of everything we have been
able to realize noisy democracies for the majority of the world. We erroneously
think, the noise is the sign of life.
Noise is not merely the loudest sounds of words with little meaning,
without meaning or having dubious meanings; it is a stimulant to build an
environment that discourages introspection at all levels. We are not very sure
whether it was some inherent defect of the feudal system that got exposed or
the blinding glare of industrialization and technological changes that deprived
the humanity in achieving a mature and sustainable transformation into a democratic
system. Perhaps, the dyeing feudal system left its legacy of violence, and
also, the newly born industrialization and technological changes failed to
create a nonviolent order. The man, overawed with quick changes could not
introspect and modify his conduct in the absence of appropriate constructive thoughts.
Self-restraint comes from deep introspection and patient and selfless conduct
after introspection. When we don’t learn the lesson of self restrain we crib a
bit too loudly about the constraints we have to encounter. We, then, create
much impotent noise. That noise may not destroy the world, but it has enough
potential to destroy constructive thoughts and conduct.
The modern democratic system must learn to decentralize and
give opportunities of fair amount self-learning to the modern man. The right governance
goes for enabling the people, not spoon feeding them. The right governance
helps the people to educate themselves about individual freedom.
PROMOD
KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is the author of “In Search of
Our Wonderful Words” and “Mahatma A Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious”.]
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