Summary:
Provides an overview of demcracy. Describes why democracy is merely ideology. Argues that a true democracy could never exist.
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything."
-Josef Stalin
Josef Stalin was a Russian political figure that lived from 1879 to 1953. When Stalin made this quote many years ago he was bringing forth the truth, or allowing people to see the corruption of many governmental systems that exist today. Even America, which functions as a democracy, we have rarely ever seen an election or voting that hasn't been rigged in some sort of way. What Stalin truthfully suggests here is that those who count the votes hold the power to tally that vote in the favor of their preferred candidate. What they truly are lacking is a sense of moral integrity. Therefore, systems such as democracies being seemingly "just", do not truly exist, but are merely an indication of the universal human deficiency of subjectivity. We can see that humans are because of, how since birth, children are slowly developing biases of their own, how people always have irrelevant points to back up their beliefs, and because of patterns that have occurred over time in human behavior
From birth children are innocent pure beings untarnished by philosophy, religion, politics, and heavy thought. As they develop and get older, opinions, as always, begin to take their place in children's minds. More and more how a person views different topics characterizes the person in the publics eye. Their religion, for example, could mean very little to us, but could be a significant factor in the person's life. At this early stage, the development of cultures comes with the surroundings and contacts that the person has. All of which are influential to how an individual acts, feels, and even thinks
Once a person has been built upon certain beliefs they then truly become bias. It's a strenuous task, trying to overcome a bias you have. When someone believes in something they will do anything to back themselves up, be their opinion rational or not. Sometimes the points an individual says are completely irrelevant to the point that they is arguing, but when you are trying to defend yourself and you can think of many points, rationality is not a factor. For example, a boy that strongly believes in Christianity will preach all of his beliefs to another girl. But, when contradicted with her theory of evolution the boy is at a lost and must then begin to find things to say, all to defend his bias.
In history, there has been a repetition of mistakes that people in general tend to make. This is of course is created by following the biases that society has created for us. Genocide, war, politics, family life and many other things show us similarities between past events and the present. Hitler corrupted the minds of many people and after preaching and praising him, they lost their value for life, all to do his will. Moa Zedong also let his code of ethics be known and he too gained many faithful supporters. All these followers and leader were acting under the impression of their own opinion or beliefs. They were acting under the influence of their own bias feelings.
In conclusion, this is why I don't think a true democracy could really exist. So long people live through development, protection and following bias actions, a clean government cannot really exist. If we can somehow get past subjectively viewing things in our everyday lives, then we may somehow get past our biases and live fairly. But, if society continues to follow this path, we are prone to live for a future in ruin and function under the control of a illegitimate head of state.
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