Authoritarian Democracy
We live in a democratic society.
I wake up in the morning and go to work. I follow orders or get sacked. I obey. I don't ask. I need money to buy life. I can't afford to question.
We live in a democratic society.
For the lucky ones who have a job, half of their awake-time is spent in an authoritarian institution where you do as somebody else says or else lose the source of a dignified life.
We live in a democratic society.
We have choices. Not free choices. Choices that are marked by a constant threat of a life of poverty. A guy with a gun to his head can choose to die. But he has the choice. That is the logic we're offered.
We live in a democratic society.
Yet all around us, life is managed by authoritarian methods. Companies, stores and offices. Where is the democracy? We have democracy on our books. Authoritarianism in our lives. Democracy every 5 years. Authoritarianism for the rest of the time.
We live in a democratic society.
We don't live democracy.
I wake up in the morning and go to work. I follow orders or get sacked. I obey. I don't ask. I need money to buy life. I can't afford to question.
We live in a democratic society.
For the lucky ones who have a job, half of their awake-time is spent in an authoritarian institution where you do as somebody else says or else lose the source of a dignified life.
We live in a democratic society.
We have choices. Not free choices. Choices that are marked by a constant threat of a life of poverty. A guy with a gun to his head can choose to die. But he has the choice. That is the logic we're offered.
We live in a democratic society.
Yet all around us, life is managed by authoritarian methods. Companies, stores and offices. Where is the democracy? We have democracy on our books. Authoritarianism in our lives. Democracy every 5 years. Authoritarianism for the rest of the time.
We live in a democratic society.
We don't live democracy.
posted by Peklectrick at 2:30 AM
2 Comments:
That is, unfortunately, the sad and harsh truth about the society we are living in, a so-called democratic society.
Where democracy is only the term coined for the lobbying for votes two months before any election. It is the democracy where whenever you utter a single word against the Establishment, they will do everything to shut you up and, possibly, destroy you while meticulously removing all evidence of their involvement in the matter.
It's sad, but that's how things are and it doesn't look like anyone seems interested in changing them... which leader in society (who's enjoying the present system till the last drop) would volunteer to, anyways?
cheers for your comment kenneth. I think no leader would do that. If change is to benefit the people, it has to move up from below to the top and not vice versa.
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