Democracy

Democracy is about representation not manipulation and influence. Anyone can amass a damning picture by cherry-picking facts, distorting history and taking events out of context - an unbiased presentation of events would be far more admirable, while morality needs to sustain its real value and become a matter of greater concern. Indifference and too lenient approach creates a gap that can be manipulated by more hostile, abusive and radical views to justify their activities while taking advantage of inertia of people. There need to be more efforts for good governance based on meaningful social justice and commitment.

The new world order with increased connectivity by the technological condition of our time has imposed a way of life that is not self governing. Being part of the society we ought to have political choices aligned with our aspiration and our place in the world. But the political choices of others who share our environment have imposed severe constraints to measures of self governance. Additionally, in autocratic regimes fear of exclusion increasingly cause people to be forced to take up the role that is designated to them, which is rather co-conspiring than concession.

On the importance of keeping distinct public and private boundaries to enforce exclusion, the state attempts to threaten and vandalise individual’s integrity which results in marginalisation of those endangered. Putting in action most “notorious agents” playing the role of masters and targeting “vulnerable” already weakened by restriction from participating in social and economic activities, they sustain obedience - out of fear and disgust. Since there is total blockage on financial income humiliating consequences are on agenda to complete the vicious cycle of obedience.

By imposing threat and creating an environment of fear, insecurity, and poverty, particularly on those more aware, state tightens the grip on self censorship and that someone cannot speak of her problems even to her closest associate, and cannot do so for she become vandalised, defamed and excluded from her peers. Therefore cancerous self censorship turns one to blame all who have resorted to outsiders to end the misery.

And where there is confusion on social codes, making it impossible to distinct between thugs or ministers, then third class agents can intrude as they have free hands on controlling the resources necessary to effective communication. And the reason they can control those resources is that the state enforces rules and provide instruments of intrusion (even to most private spaces) which give a lowest of low a veto power, backed by a legitimate menace of state force, over their use.