Sunday, 8 July 2012

democracy DOESN"T work.

At what point does a society get too big? Been thinking about this one for some time. Ok see if you can stay with me. We're going to go back to democracy in 2014. By the sounds of it democracy is apparently a magic bullet that will heal all the woes of Fiji. The thing is, democracy, even the really most liberal form of democracy practised today still leaves certain segments of a society unhappy. Know what I mean? As someone ( I don't know who) once said...democracy allows 51% of the population to oppress the other 49%. It's simplistic but it really does have a ring of truth to it. In my opinion anyway. So...can anything be done about it? That's the main question really isn't it? Say we go back to the polls in 2014, we elect a government, someone doesn;t like it, coup time again. The thing that has always bothered me about democracy is that it's a system where we give power to someone WHO IS ACTIVELY  seeking said power. I don't know about you but that seems kinda nuts to me. It's like someone said "Man I am a gun nut, love nothing better then shooting shit up...then you go and give him or her  an AK-47. It's messed up if you ask me ( or even if you don't, I'll fucking tell you anyway...haha!).
So how to solve this this? How to ensure that the voice of the people, ALL the people is truly heard...well how about the complete dissolution of what we think of as FIJI into separate SMALLER communities where people can be free to practise their beliefs or non-beliefs according to what they believe as decided by their entire community. So you could have a community where everyone is Christian and they run their community according to biblical standards and next community over could be made of say...gay people who want to live lives free from homophobia. People are given the choice to live their lives the way they want to. Complete choice, complete access to whichever community they want to live in. Each community can choose a leader or committee or whoever as their leader as long as each person not only has a VOTE but a SAY in the civic life of their community.  And maybe, each leader could have a say in what might be loosely described as a parliament that could meet to discuss issues that might affect all the communities ie "Fiji" Other then that each community could be as isolated as they want or as open as they want it to be...as long as it's the members of that community who make the decision... I don't know if an idea like this will work and it's highly unlikely that it would ever be tried but still, it's something to think about instead of all the wanking off about democracy.

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