GRASP "TRUE DEMOCRACY'S" HUGE GLOBAL SCOPE
In this article I am describing a vision for a new project that will contribute to making the world a really hopeful planet.
I want to invite you to be a part of this...we need more thinkers and people who have had it with the current system where 5% of the world live in Democracies and the other 6.5 billion on our planet are being treated like garbage.
We have been running a fundraising campaign on fundrazr.com - a link has been posted...check us out there...and...read on..."
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Isidoros Parlamas
March 23, 2018
BILLIONS AS WELL AS THE PLANET
SUFFER BECAUSE OF PSEUDO-POLITICIANS
TODAY'S NEWS: 140 WHALES WASH ASHORE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
PSEUDO-POLITICIANS & WARMONGERS
My teacher has been Socrates, not Plato, Socrates; not Moses, or Jesus, or Muhammad, or Buddha, etc., just Socrates!
Other friends and teachers of mine, provided they espouse or espoused what they are believed to espouse or have espoused, are Ephialtes of Sophonides, Phaleas of Chalcedon, Thomas Paine, Abraham Geiger, Olaf Palme, John Lennon, Manning, Snowden, Assange, and all those of similar mentality I have not had the pleasure to have heard of.
It may surprise you but I've never been interested in money, in the sense of amassing financial wealth or real estate; I just need to have enough to live an ordinary life, financially speaking, or even a difficult life. Neither am I interested in power of any sort, save ethical, spiritual, and intellectual strength.
Do I believe in God?
Absolutely!
Why do I believe in God?
Well, the Cosmos, and Everything in it, was created neither by itself nor by man!
Pretty self-evident stuff, uh? All the more important then to respect that stuff...
However, since God is the SAME for everyone, I do not believe in dogmas! Just in God or the Creator...names are not important when it comes to the Creator, because God is nameless since God has no need for a name!
My business is Peace and Prosperity...nothing to do with hatred and bigotry!
What drives me is the passionate desire to help eliminate ignorance and graft.
A Utopia? I agree, but if it weren't for Utopians, we'd be still living in caves.
What is utopia, anyway?
οὐ + τόπος = no place → meaning not found anywhere...
There was a time when a lot of what we find everywhere today could not be found anywhere...
Oh! By the way, my tool is DIALECTICS, whose cornerstone is HORISTICS!
We've been raised to think that there's two kinds of political systems, (1) Western Style Democracy or (2) some form of Totalitarianism.
PLEASE, READ ON...
Naturally, western-style democracy is supposed to be the good system and totalitarianism the bad one.
A western-style democracy is a representative parliamentary system which means that citizens delegate the management of what matters most in their lives to complete strangers who, in most cases, do not give a damn about their constituents' lives, in the first place.
So, what is it that matters most in one's life?
Well, the following are certainly equally important in the sense that they are interdependant: (1) Wealth Distribution, (2) Justice, (3) Health, (4) Education, (5) Security.
Only 5 countries declare themselves to be one-party states and, therefore, totalitarian: (1) China, (2) Eritrea, (3) North Korea, (4) Laos, and (5) Vietnam.
The rest are supposedly Democracies of one sort or another. However, the overwhelming majority of them are democracies in name only and just 17 of them are worthy of the democracy label, the criterion being the high level of Quality Of Life that their citizens enjoy.
Here are those countries:
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Germany
- Luxembourg
- Holland
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Norway
- Finland
- Iceland
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Australia
- Costa Rica
- Uruguay
- Japan, and
- Singapore
Out of about 7 billion, the combined population of these 17 countries is about 350 million people, or one twentieth.
Let us call this group of countries "the A-group." Then A-group = 0.35 billion or 5% of the total population.
What about the rest of the people?
Well, the supposed representative parliamentary democracies have been converted into vehicles of graft and corruption at the expense of the average citizen.
Armies of consultants of all sorts are employed by governments not to help in improving the Quality Of Life (QOL) of the citizens, but to help in engineering elaborate schemes which aim at nibbling ceaselessly at public funds and wealth, while at the same time passing laws to make this obvious theft of public wealth legal.
Thus, we have, quite literally, come to the point where there exist two classes of theft: (1) legal theft and (2) illegal theft.
Am I joking? Of course not! Am I exaggerating? Of course not! I mean every word of it!
A NOTE:
There is a methodology which I call VERIFIABLE PERSUASION. In my profile, this is part of the definition of what I do and it alludes to persuading an audience in such a way so that the audience be empowered to verify the arguments used in persuasion to see if they hold or not. It is my priority then to employ ONLY verifiable arguments.
END OF NOTE
These are the tools of these pseudo-democracies:
- legislative complicity
- judicial complicity
- executive complicity
- cronyism
- nepotism
The three powers, the legislative, the judiciary, and the law enforcement agencies cover one another in a near perfectly synchronized ballet of corruption, graft, bribery, kickbacks, false, fake, or duplicate invoicing, artfully hiding wealth in offshore companies, et al.
Taxes are collected only to end up in the pockets of those in power using every trick on as well as off the book.
One of those tricks is starting a war, any war...because wars provide the perfect cover and countless opportunities to misuse and ultimately steal not only public money and wealth, but also innocent young lives.
Another is to allow terrorist organizations to acquire enough leverage so as to wreck havoc among citizens, then use this seeming chaos as an excuse to earmark billions upon billions of dollars and euros to fight terrorism and in the process empty the taxpayers' wallets in myriads of legal ways...legal but unethical...remember, there exists legal theft...
Steal a chocolate bar from a shop and you land in prison; steal billions and you roam the halls of power, be it the congress or parliament, court houses, or law enforcement offices.
Of course all those regimes are not democracies, but rather pseudo-democracies or democracies in name only.
If we were to translate literally the Greek word DEMOCRACY/ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ into English, then we'd have PEOPLECONTROL and the system would probably be called PEOPLECONTROLACY instead of Democracy...a very revealing name to English speakers indeed.
It follows, then, that Democracy is supposed to be a political system where power is exercised PERSONALLY by the citizen on a rotating basis.
Let us take a look at the paradox in the USA, supposedly the flagship of the so-called Western Democracies.
If we arbitrarily accept that there are four groups of countries that reflect the QOL their citizens enjoy, A, the 17 countries mentioned above, B, C, and D, then the United States definitely belongs to the C-group of countries, despite its cultural and military strength. Out of a population of about 320 million, only about 60 million live an A-group life, with another 30 million living a B-group life; the rest live a C-group or even a D-group life.
It is indicative of the US paradox that about 35% of the US population are drug addicts, making use of either legal or illegal drugs...the criminality and homicide levels in Mexico, as well as the rest of Central America and Colombia, unmistakeably testify to just that. The official percentage stands at 10% but that is widely thought to be ridiculously low.
The gun ownership rules that prevail in the US say a lot about the callousness and corruption of the elected officals. Time and again hundreds of people, most of them young, have lost their lives because of those rules. Still, pseudo-politicians are blinded by power and money and will not change the laws lest they displease the National Rifle Association which regularly donates to their pseudo-political campaigns.
To illustrate the pseudo-culture's grip on power more broadly, of the 5 countries in the Security Council of the United Nations, the US, the UK, France, Russia, and China, none is an A-group country, and just two, France and the UK, are B-group countries. Apparently, graft and military power go hand in hand.
The root of the problem, then, lies in the statement:
and I am here, or rather, we are here to say that we need to restore DEMOCRACY in such a way as to mirror the etymology of its name.
- FIRST we need to set up an organization called TRUE DEMOCRACY, or something to that effect, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Why Denmark? Because it is a transparent country where the law is truly respected and not too far from the center of Europe.
- Then we open a few offices in strategic cities, like New York, San Francisco, Athens, because of its history, Santiago, Chile, perhaps Warsaw, and elsewhere...this is an issue to be studied...like myriads of other issues...
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Then we set up "True Democracy" parties and ask for the electorate's vote. Once we have enough seats to amend the constitution in a given country, which is surely bound to take years, we do so decentralizing power as much as possible and giving local city councils the power to run themselves as True Democracies.
That means...well...here are some pivotal points:
- We abolish all parties, including the "True Democracy" party
- We divide administratively the country into "Political Cities" or "Demos" of about 15,000 citizens each
- Each citizen serves as a policeman/woman 15 days a year patrolling his or her Demo; another 15 days as a law maker in the Demo's city council; and another 15 days as a juror in the Demo's court
- The jurors decide on the sentencing as well, if the accused is convicted
- Citizens in each Demo are free to pass any laws as they see fit
- Each Demo sends representatives to a certain central Service or Agency or Office that is to conduct Foreign Policy and organize the Defense of the country
The Quality Of Life in each Demo will reflect the quality of that Demo citizens' Political Work, as law makers, judges, and law enforcers.
Obviously, each Demo is bound to learn from the mistakes and successes of other Demos...it goes without saying the Demos which fail to learn will pay the price...but only those ones, not all of them.
But you will ask:
Can anybody be a legislator, a judge, or a policeman/woman?
But it is already happening!
Anyone who can get the necessary votes legislates...no matter how ignorant they may be.
There is no LEGISLATURE SCHOOL or JUROR SCHOOL!
As for policemen/women, a little training in small fire arms and martial arts is more that sufficient to protect your neighborhood. Besides, in most countries the police force is not capable of providing security anyway, as statistical data on crime overwhelmingly prove.
It is of the essence then that we, the citizens, learn how to govern ourselves justly and efficiemtly...so as not to be forced to delegate that duty to complete strangers who are surely going to take advantage of us...
JUSTICE and PROSPERITY.
REMEMBER:
BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AS WELL AS THE PLANET SUFFER
BECAUSE OF PSEUDO-POLITICIANS & PSEUDO-DEMOCRACY
IN THE LONG RUN, actually it may not be that long, PRACTICAL POLITICAL EDUCATION
or "TRUE DEMOCRACY" IS OUR ONLY HOPE
WHAT IS POLITICAL EDUCATION?
To know what needs to be done as well as how to do it to attain Quality Of Life
What is Quality of Life?
Please, read this other essay here.
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