Democracy is a
beautiful system of governance. It has gone beyond ruling nations to settling
all disputes among men. It has a role in large and small social groups and even
in families.
No other governing
system has got a wider currency. Even those who love and cherish Kingship do
not compromise on democracy.
But democracy has a
big problem.
It is not always the
correct.
Democracy was started,
as it is taught in schools, in Greece. The number of ‘free citizens’ were small
and so all of them gathered together to discuss and decide on matters of
dispute.
Greece was the wisest
place in ancient time. It was a place of philosophers. They had the magnanimity
to listen to every philosophical, religious or economic theory. Anybody from
any nation could present his arguments before the elite group of the nation.
The citizens had freedom to accept or reject them. They respected intellectual
and emotional freedom.
So democracy as a
ruling system was inherent in the social thinking of Greece. As a governing
system it might have evolved gradually and accepted by them for the nation
after many discussions. That makes it the best of its kind in the world.
Christianity supports
democracy. Though the basic teaching of Christianity contains the Kingship of
God, it has granted free will to all human being. Christianity does not
differentiate people on the basis of race, color, education, wealth or sex. Before
the true Christian faith, all human beings are equal. So the idea of a Kingship
by man is against the basic teachings of Christianity. No man is better than
the other and so none should take the privilege to rule others.
The spread of
Christianity might have encouraged democracy to a great extent.
Man cannot create
anything perfect. Everything created by man has two sides – positive and
negative.
The negative face of
democracy is that it is not always correct.
Democracy is simply
the wish of the majority of people in a society. That society may be large like
a nation or small like a family.
None can assure that
the wishes and decisions of the majority of people in number is always the
correct.
Ignorant people may
express their opinion and take decision on superstitious beliefs and practices.
But how can they discuss to the correct decision on modern technology or
scientific progress.
A tribal group in the
remote African continent may discuss the social issues around them, but never
can discuss the fear of terrorism as the world face today. Can they take
decisions of economic reforms that will lift the country to the next level?
So democracy is not a
success among ignorant people. A
benevolent King who is experienced with the knowledge of ancients is best for
them. An outside world can easily communicate with him than with the ignorant
social group.
Democracy is the
privileged system for an educated society.
But even they tend to
make mistakes.
We cannot assure that
an educated society always take the right decision.
Education leads to
light with an awareness of the intensity of darkness.
Education educates men
about the free will.
Hence all decisions of
man cannot be the right one.
Democracy is only the
rule of the majority, not the rule of the correct.
Decisions of democracy
may go wrong.
Democracy may lead to
disastrous decisions and after effects.
Still I love
democracy.
Professor
Jacob Abraham
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