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Failure of Democracy
Today, most countries follow democracy. Why is this so? The people of a country
ought to decide what is best for them and democracy ensures that the people
govern themselves. This is quite the opposite of dictatorship. But is it close
to our real ideal? Doesn’t anyone of us want to live in a perfect world? If
people govern themselves, make the laws and decide their future, is that close
to perfection? Of course it isn’t. Perfection is every human being treated like
a human and not a single human being treated like an animal. Will democracy
erase the sheer hopelessness into which most humans are born every day? The
endless poverty? No, it won’t. Let democracy remain as a system that prevents
tyranny and dictatorship. But let there also be better laws to prevent human
birth into poverty. Since the people make the laws, it’s in their own hands
whether to attain perfection in their society, if they abhor poverty, if they
care for every human who is to be born, they will do it.
The majority, the billions of people living in less than respectable, inhuman
conditions, who inhabit the earth today cannot be ignored. Their ways of living
will affect those who live otherwise because they are the majority. We hail
democracy as our savior but it is hardly worthy of such a title. Democracy will
ensure that the poor majority will make the decisions in the poor countries and
those decisions, though benefiting the poor, will not also stop short of
bringing the rich to the level of the poor. With the population explosion on the
horizon and especially the poor being the major contributors to it, the
degradation of living standards is not only imminent but also inescapably
obvious. Why is something so obvious being chosen for blatant dismissal and
disregard in the minds of the billions who inhabit the earth today? With poverty
comes disease, crime, injustice, pain, sorrow, overcrowding and more poverty.
And all of it is going to spread and make itself the accepted standard of
living.
Democracy fails because it tries to secure the interests of adults and not the
weaker and less independent portion of the population, who are the children, who
are, without doubt, the more deserving members of the population. Also, for a
society to be stable in the long run, its very basic blocks need to be secured,
namely the children who are the citizens of tomorrow. ‘Democracy + Child
Protection Law’ is the perfect solution to the need for social order. The Child
Protection Law protects infants and children who cannot voice their opinion or
run their country. Democracy will remain as the self-governing, decision-making
machinery run by the adult population section. The law should protect the
interests of the infants and children who exist today as well as those who are
yet to be born while democracy continues to protect the interests of the adult
population. The latter cannot be done satisfactorily unless the former is done
first. But in today’s world, with much sorrow I have to say, that both Democracy
and Law is used to protect the interests of adults almost exclusively. How
foolish we have been! Using all the great ideas of democracy, justice and
equality and the governing machineries based on these principles exclusively for
the protection of adults! Laws to protect children (especially since they cannot
vote) ought to be powerful, all pervasive and unstoppable in order to be
effective.
Because children are so carefree, and seldom complain, we take it for granted
that they are happy. But have we treated them fairly? Even the child who begs
seems happy. A normal life is the right of every child, whether it complains or
not. Stop trying to create jobs for all the adults. It will get us nowhere. We
have to start from the children. If we cannot take care of them now, then
certainly we cannot take care of them when they’re grown up adults. Stop trying
to provide higher education to everyone. If the children don’t get their basic
needs fulfilled because there is no law that sees to it that it’s done, whatever
is done to provide education to the youth will not be much effective, the
education being of lower quality and not being within the reach of all. Because,
if there is not enough for infants, how can there be enough for youngsters? If
there’s not enough for youngsters, will there be enough for adults?
And so all our social work and social order is futile because it serves to
secure mainly the interests of the adults, in a democracy, where only adults
vote. This is where democracy fails. It asks the opinion of adults, not the
weaker, younger, dependant portion of the population, since they are too young
to voice their opinion or even think for themselves. So instead we must have a
powerful law that secures their interests and thus fill this void that democracy
cannot hope to fill. Democracy does not secure the weaker, younger, dependant
population. The law that makes up for this shortcoming, the Parenthood Financial
Capability Law, is the message of this book, and is the plug that can fill a
large gap in democracy and hence make up for its greatest shortcoming. To
achieve maximum effectiveness, this law secures the interests of children to a
reasonable extent before they are even born. Basic needs of human beings, which
are greatest and most disregarded at childhood, have to be secured for equality,
justice and harmony to follow. These in turn would have ensured peace, national
security and harmony. We have fought for equality and justice. Now we have to
fight for the rights and needs of every newborn child. We really don't have to
fight for them; we only have to make their existence a prerequisite to
parenthood. For, if we had done so in the beginning we wouldn't have had to
fight for equality or justice, peace or freedom. All these would have followed,
without the bloodshed it required otherwise.
The greatest inequality is the inequality among newborn human children. The
greatest injustice is the one committed to a child when he is denied food and
water. How can any nation be at peace with itself when such injustices are being
increasingly committed each day?
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