intellocracy

The concept of Democracy was propounded by a notable Acropol Democritus more than 2000 years back, which was very aggressively criticized by Aristotle who, being in power, ordered to burn all the writings of Democritus. Today, we don’t have much of Democritus works except his few quotations. This great philosopher lived in Acropolis, birth place and citadel of Greek civilization. All citizens of Acropolis were educated, nationalists and well-cultured. Democritus devised Democracy to enable every citizen to participate in the working of the government, in their assemblies in Athena, now known as the Athena temple. The system of equal rights and participation in the decision making process was an ideal for the civilized humanity. It worked up to the time when Alexander’s father Philips invaded Acropolis and chased the Acropols out of their place. Most of them fled to India to work with the Theos there. In Indian context, the Theos are known as ‘Devas’ and Acropols as ‘Agrawals’.Democracy is an ideal system og government for a civilized society. It has some basic requirements and expectations from the citizens. Not all societies fulfil these requirements, hence are not suitable for a democratic rule. The minimum requirements for a democracy are equitable distribution of wealth, good physical and mental health of the people, and most importantly a well-educated and disciplined society. Exploitation of each other by the members of the society is a bane of democracy.Without any regard to these basic requirements, free countries around the globe have chosen to adopt democratic form of the government for themselves. This has led to democratic failures in developing and under-developed world. India, said to be the largest democracy of the world, is a stark example of democratic failure, wherein neither rule of the majority exists, nor people are free and considerate enough to vote for a responsible political leadership. In general, people of India are illiterate or under-educated to understand the value of their right to vote for a government. They are under severe compulsions and many times greedy enough to elect a wrong leader for the government. Such a leadership, takes care, in its own interests of perennial rule over the country, that the people remain under-privileged and uneducated, sick - physically and/or mentally, and most importantly, they don’t get justice.This situation in India has forced me to devise an alternative to democracy, which I put forth here, point by point, for a public debate.

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