Democracy - The Real Matrix
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people." - Abraham Lincoln.
That was the caption in one of the chapters from my Civics course back when I was in my IX standard. That was what my teacher taught us about Democracy. That was what I grew up thinking Democracy to be. And that democracy is good because people's opinions are valued and considered before the government takes any decision.
It's been around 11 years since my first rendezvous with Democracy as a subject, and after these 11 long, directionless, yet somehow rewarding years, it's but oh-so-obvious to me that everything my teacher taught me was all a big lie. Yep, the whole part, all the way.
Every time I think of Democracy, I'm reminded of the movie The Matrix, more specifically, of what Morpheus says about the matrix in that movie- "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth- That you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind...." and I'll say that these machines built this huge computer program because they in deed had no other way to survive, unlike the parasites that plague our real societies here. Every time I see these politicians using the law for running their family businesses and every time I see them overpower the few that wake up from their social slumber, this scary similarity only grows stronger.
Democracy, as it stands today, is an illusion created by the people with power and money to blind the other kind of people- the poor/powerless/scared/helpless kind from seeing the obvious, that they are being devoured by these parasites who are sucking the guts out of these poor people with no mercy and with absolutely no social responsibility what-so-ever. All this blood just to fill their pockets green.
The sad part about this whole déjà vu is the fact that just as there were some people hopelessly tied to the matrix for their survival, and how some people accepted it as the real truth, some even fighting for the machines, I've seen people who are hopelessly dependent on these parasites for their livelihood. They fail to realize that the blood sucking leeches they support will not spare anyone- including their supporters and their families. However, unlike the movie, and very unfortunately, the Morpheus of this real world is yet to free himself from this illusion, let alone finding Neo.
Democracy today is no longer about the good of the common man, rather it has been reduced to a tool for exploiting the common man by manipulating the law. As long as the very people who are supposed to prevent corruption and crime(our police and justice departments) are themselves corrupt, these parasites will continue to feed on us, bribing their way out of every crime they commit and buying every judgment that should have gone against them.
It's been around 11 years since my first rendezvous with Democracy as a subject, and after these 11 long, directionless, yet somehow rewarding years, it's but oh-so-obvious to me that everything my teacher taught me was all a big lie. Yep, the whole part, all the way.
Every time I think of Democracy, I'm reminded of the movie The Matrix, more specifically, of what Morpheus says about the matrix in that movie- "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth- That you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind...." and I'll say that these machines built this huge computer program because they in deed had no other way to survive, unlike the parasites that plague our real societies here. Every time I see these politicians using the law for running their family businesses and every time I see them overpower the few that wake up from their social slumber, this scary similarity only grows stronger.
Democracy, as it stands today, is an illusion created by the people with power and money to blind the other kind of people- the poor/powerless/scared/helpless kind from seeing the obvious, that they are being devoured by these parasites who are sucking the guts out of these poor people with no mercy and with absolutely no social responsibility what-so-ever. All this blood just to fill their pockets green.
The sad part about this whole déjà vu is the fact that just as there were some people hopelessly tied to the matrix for their survival, and how some people accepted it as the real truth, some even fighting for the machines, I've seen people who are hopelessly dependent on these parasites for their livelihood. They fail to realize that the blood sucking leeches they support will not spare anyone- including their supporters and their families. However, unlike the movie, and very unfortunately, the Morpheus of this real world is yet to free himself from this illusion, let alone finding Neo.
Democracy today is no longer about the good of the common man, rather it has been reduced to a tool for exploiting the common man by manipulating the law. As long as the very people who are supposed to prevent corruption and crime(our police and justice departments) are themselves corrupt, these parasites will continue to feed on us, bribing their way out of every crime they commit and buying every judgment that should have gone against them.
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