Democracy An Another Failure

The history of mankind is a story of unsuccessful experiments, trials and tribulations. Man produces a concept and gives it a trial and after centuries of dreadful conflicts, bloodshed and wars it comes to the conclusion, that the concept he had produced was wrong. Then he brings forth a fresh concept which is generally opposite to the previous one and thus begins fresh experiments on it. That also proves unsuccessful after passing through the same unfortunate events. The life of man, political, social and economic has reached the present stage after passing through a series of such vicious cycles. 

When the beastly practice of Autocratic and Theocratic ruling reached its zenith, some western thinkers originated the idea that in order to eliminate the misery of mankind, the system of government should be based on the mutual contract of the people.  Thus the theory of "Social Contract" was introduced by Hobbes and Locke.  But Rousseau (1712-1778) gave it the practical shape.  He said that every man wants freedom but that is an impossibility.  Thus, let every individual person allow his/her "will" to get absorbed into the will of the society. In other words, make the general will of the society the ultimate source of authority.  Theoretically it appeared to be a good idea but the difficulty arose in putting the general will of the people into practice. It was not possible to determine the will of every individual in a society. It was thus decided to base the form of government on the epresentatives of the people, and if opinion differ the decision of the majority be accepted.

Our conclusion is that the democratic parliamentary government is a deception and a most wasteful regime in which the achievement of a small group people is to make fools of a larger group of people in a society; because opinion is something that can easily be guided or modified. See the latest example of Pakistan & India where one can easily find that 51% are satisfied but what about the remaining 49% ?

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