Democracy is a circuss ran by monkeys, a system better than any other or is it? It is surely better than a dictatorship or oligarhy or aristocracy, those are tyranical. But who says democracy can't turn out to be tyranical? Democracy gives power to all the people, to the avarage Joe, but is that really such a good thing?
Picture this, those months it was the first time in years since it snowed in the whole country, the people have taken to social media to post about how the snow is fake and made by the gouverment...their proof?That the snow doesnt melt when you hold a lighter under it...why should we trust those people with ellecting officials in our countries?
You might say, yes but they arent a significant number in order to- Calin Georgescu is literally the most likely candidate to win the presidential ellections in Romania.
The landscape has changed with technology,I'm not saying that all the people who support CG are stupid, I did that too, what I'm saying is that stupid people today have the power to convince smarter people trough mass posting on social media and the sheep flock effect.The colective IQ is called an avarage one for a reason, Ill say the number gets lowered the masses act like sheeps.
The solution might be to lower the number of them by emposing requirements on voting but then you will just give them reasons to take to the street. Now we could do local gouverment but that seems counter intuitive, yes it lowers the numbers of people votting but you just made a smaller mass, mayhaps harder to controll but you can't really apply this principle when voting idk a parliament or the president.
Those are not really solutions but a patch on a deep wound
Yes democracy can turn tyranical if the masses ellect a tyrant as their sheepherd, and this can happen, beacuse the masses can't be bothered until there comes someone charismatic to sweep them off their feet, this is intensified today. Truth doesn't matter the only thing that matters is the better story you can sell the masses.
Democracies fatal flaw is politics, you cannot have ellections without people groupping themselves into parties, left or right, auth or lib, right and wrong, us vs them...politics polarizes a country and politicians exploits those flaws, some say democracy is today is a facade but I think thats the design of democracy. Giving power to monkeys in a circuss can end badly...Only if there was an alternative..
The flaw is elections, thats the core and the answer is to get rid of them, this simple.
We should use contest instead, why should we vote and give the possibility of a political grifter to take power when we could give up on our right to vote in order to establish the rule of the best, not to mention usually only 30% of the population actually goes to vote not even rule by literal majority.
The masses are to stupid to gouvern themselves, they demand a shepherd but they should not able to chose it beacuse they dont decide anyways, they get manipulated into who to vote, education would change nothing is our nature to group think such important things. The shepherd should be there by merit and whats the best way to achive that if not an contest? perhaps an exam of some sorts?Would you rather have the right to vote and have no guarantee your candidate wins that considering you think of your self as englightned and not apart of the flock of sheep, newsflash you aren't. Or would you rather give up on a right and be guaranted the best one the country can give at that moment put there on merit?
But this is not flawless either sadly...who makes the exams? Who watches the watcher?
The watcher watches itself. If we make the power in the hierarchy down up the problem is solved, the higher unit in the hiearchy can make decisions only if the one lowers than himself permits him to. This should translate into a system of local tehnocratic gouverment in which the best of a comunity rules a mandate of 4 years that he obtains trought won contest. I'll argue this gives more representation than democracy beacuse YOU an indivual can gouvern your comunity to improve it without needing to put up theatre in order to convince the colective, and not you alone, everyone from the comunity can creating competition and an incetive of becoming the best in order to improve your comunity. This will solve corruption and rule useless political parties. Now once you have proven yourself you get into the county council and the leader of that council is put there by contest, he is in the regional council and the leader of that one is put by contest, the leaders of those will make up the gouverment and their leader will be the pressident that is also put by contest achiving a noocracy in the procces. If somehow the system fails and corruption sweeps in the lower units can revolt and contest will take place again, its easy to determine if it fails or not, in such system you know who gouverns, so yk who does a bad job, and system will replace it. A self corecting system made for individuals by individuals.
This can also be applied in economics, the leaders of a guild will have to prove themselves trought contest.
The invisible hand of the free market is not an indiviual one, it's a colective one, state or market they are a colective, it doesn't matter if one is cooersive or not, it makes no diference with the ideocracy that the masses can fall into. Markets should still exist but the means of production shall be widely spread and the guilds and asociations that will eventually form betwen the enterprises should be one of a tehnocratic manner. If we are not gonna trust the masses with their poltics beacuse on how easy they are to manipulate why trust them with the market? The system should filter the idiotness of the masses in order to get what each individual is smart in their respective field. Give power to individuals not colectives, the individuals will form comunities and society shall prosper.
Hi. thanks for reading, this more of a rant than anything, I'm slowly lossing hope democracy can actual happen, it's more of a dream