Who Wants a Democracy, Am I Right?
The connection between human psychology and politics is dangerous
“Equality! Destroy capitalism! Universal healthcare! Take the money from billionaires! Reparations! Open the borders!”
It’s easy to scream it when we all want it. When it seems like a simple choice. It’s even easier when give power to the government to make it simple for us.
…Danger, Will Robinson.
The political world is a mess.
Why?
Most likely due to lies and corruption.
But more so because there are too many in high-influence positions trying to instill an idea of absolutism. People with a skewed idea of the world. People who have not lived or have forgotten what it’s like to live as one of “the people.” People who say more than they do.
People too close to elitism and a god complex.
People that have no idea what it’s like to be you.
Humans, am I right?
Gotta love ‘em. Gotta hate ‘em.
It’s not that I’m against equality. Fuck racism and sexism. Fuck cultural and religious elitism. Fuck discriminations.
Honestly, fuck anyone with a superiority complex of any kind.
It’s not equality.
It’s that I’m afraid of the psychological irrationality of getting there.
It’s that I’m afraid people are confusing equal opportunity with equal limitations.
It’s that I’m against trusting insanely powerful humans to do everything right.
It’s that I’m against people taking things from me because they say they know what’s best for me.
It’s because the human mind can convince itself that to make people suffer(a rule to limit beyond an equal state) isn’t the same as allowing them to suffer from the same starting point(the choice to self-improve).
Power of the people?
Or
Power of the few?
Equality makes sense.
Between men and women first and foremost because female suppression is a fault of the past we’ve been so slowly turning around. But also to destroy suppression based on race, gender, culture, and beliefs.
But equality isn’t about limiting people so that no one can have more. It’s about opportunity that allows them to be just as good as anyone else based on the work they put in.
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The human is impatient.
And impatience leads to haste.
Haste leads to irrationality.
Irrationality leads to censorship and apathy.
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Equality makes sense.
But when it comes to deciding what to do, we so easily decide to move power to the few who are dedicated to making decisions…
Forgetting that the decision-makers are also human.
Humans with agendas.
Humans with their own egos.
Humans with the same susceptibility to be mutated by power.
Humans who become more vulnerable to evil.
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With a country comes a multitude of complexities.
And we need governance to organize and legitimize ideas and direct the community.
But here’s my plea:
Individuality and self-governance are the most important things you hold.
To those we give our own power to, we also give our lives.
And the less we can do for ourselves the more often we live by someone else’s choices(rules).
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Beware, my friends.
I don’t know a lot about the political system, but I do know that it is full of people.
Psychological flaw and influence.
And the more we give power and ability and blind trust to those at the top, the more that is taken from the people below them.
We don’t need dictators or monarchs acting as gods.
We need powerful individuals to diversify our ideas and decisions that keep the most flexible and opportunistic chance for everyone to make their lives ideal with commitment and drive.
Truth and Love, Reader.