Selecting the rulers under democracy is nothing but providing an illusion to the the people that they are in control
I know most of us would disagree with me ...but I want to ask a simple question have you seen crackdown of the so called democratically elected government. Endless fottages are present on the internet where there is a violent crackdown by the democratically elected governments of U.S. , Britain, France, India, Japan etc. on the non-violent protestors
Most of the corrupt governments are democratically elected governments. The problem is not democratically elected government but government itself. I believe that we need community decisions (and state was formed as a facilitator for this) but if a decision is imposed on the community than it is not a community decision at all. Democracy gives that illusion that a decision is a community decision even when the community is against it because the argument is that the decision was from the community leaders and the leaders have been on the will of community itself so indirectly it is a community decision.
MY view is that Democracy itself is not bad.In fact it was the earliest form of Human Order . It is the representative democracy which is bad for the society.The pristine form of Democracy is the direct democracy rather than the representative democracy. Most of the people will say that direct democracy is not practical.I would have agreed with you if you have said it to me 10 years ago. But today in the the information age it is much more practical. I believe that a stateless society is much more practical today as information age enables to remove a huge roadblock in the community decision-making and that is problem in communication and expression of opinions of masses.
Representative democracy is a Myth, Direct democracy is the future.
