Do you think that people should be let to be involved in some decision making regarding their community?

Democracy

During the history democracy has been a controversial issue of the globe. The historical records show that there have been individuals who have taken the control of their community based on their own discretion. It is believed that these gifted individuals have the special capability and ability to rule the society rather than the ordinary people.

As it is clearly obvious all the sciences related to human kind and his issues are extremely critical and controversial including psychology, sociology, politics and etc. There have been various theoretic and practical opinions presented by philosophers regarding humanity. It seems that by passing decades most nations have grasped the idea which demonstrates the best way to govern a society is to engage the nation directly. That’s why a kind of legislature namely parliament, congress, council are made by the election in countries to make the laws in order to control the communities. It is said that people can be involved in social decision making by assignment of their tasks to people who are able to consider all their needs and requirements in a society. In this way decisions are not made by a superpower individual who has been elected by himself or at most by few special people rather numerous opinions are scooped up to reach an agreement and make a single decision.

By taking a deeper look at the issue it is perceived that there must be a lot of disadvantages in this method of ruling a community as well as in the way of dictatorship. For example, is there enough chance and possibility for a thickly populated nation to recognize some wise and talented individuals to assign them this difficult and complicated task? Or what are the efficient criteria to elect those people? As some qualifications are defined for the electors to give them the right to vote, a query comes to mind that who deserves to vote?

It is seen in many countries that despite the fact that people have been given the right to elect the legislators, the governing process of those countries have gone extremely badly and wrongly. Although in this regard so many aspects rather than the election procedure should be considered, the most important matter in my opinion is the primary stage of democracy and it is definitely the election process. How do ordinary people concern the election? How are their beliefs, opinions and way of thinking shaped? Isn’t it that even in a democratic society superpowers influence other’s opinions extensively in a very hidden and potential way? It wrongly seems that they think and decide based on their own discretion but they are permanently under the influence by higher people. That’s why it can be easily said that dictatorship is still running, doing its duties and affecting everything but in a different way, under the cover of democracy.

As the failure of democracy can not be neglected, in my opinion and as a conclusion, we should hope some thoughtful dictators come and dictate RIGHTLY if a community intends to be ruled in a good way as a utopia and if it intends to be governed in a bad way, we have to let people free to be influenced spontaneously by insufficient higher powers. (Am I kidding? I am not sure!)

Nasim Gh
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