Iranian Election And Democracy Paradoxes

I have written some critical thoughts on the situation a couple of days ago.

As the story unwinds I would like to talk about its two components – two paradoxes, one of democracy and one of generations.

First, democracy is on stage. Well, where else can it be? Peaceful revolution for the better life. There is a paradox here: revolutions are unable to procreate ready-to-use leaders with clean hands. Whoever will win the power, it will be people whose history began decades ago, and nothing can anybody do about this.

Nobody new will be let to rule. Old will rule, same people who were there all these years. And still lives a hope that a sudden change could happen and leaders will start actually do something for people in need.

To be honest such hope is very natural. Take a usual man, who works all his time and remembers about politics only near the ballot box. Majority of people are like him. Majority that decides the future. What shall we expect of the usual man? That he will go into deep analysis, he will weigh all pros and cons? Of course no, otherwise would be absolutely unfair. And with this in mind politics today heavily relies on casting the mist before the eyes of electorate.

The real problem is not vote fraud in the name of power. A horizons of much terrible things are being made in its name. The real problem is the power itself. The present features such as military balance, constant threats of all kinds, terrorism, financial crises, ecological destruction, food and energy security, fear for future that has no future, restrictions and shadow of total control – all these things are indeed necessary conditions of what is called democracy. They form a mass mindset justifying existence of governments, churches, armies and other forms power.

Paradoxic vicious circle: power needs destruction to justify itself for the purpose of preventing further destruction.

Have you thought about why billions of people work for food while supermarket shelves are always overladen with goods of all kinds? Why people have to earn?

Society that has to work to live that strives to prevent a catastrophe, will seldom think of any dangerous lofty ideas, about what the hell is going on in this world, about the causes. For this we have specially entitled persons: usually their unquestionable authorities reach out to masses from the screens. One screen specially designed for U.S., other for EU, another for China, one more for Russia, also for Iran. To each according to his needs.

This story repeats from one generation to another. Looks like young people today do not have any idea of mistakes made by predecessors. And young are likely to repeat old mistakes. Paradox is that delusions will fade away together with youth. Then a new generation will rise and who knows how long it will be possible to repeat this story.

What we see today in Iran? Generally speaking, I do not know whether what I see has any relations to reality. And that fact makes me think. As I see mainly young people on the photos, I am questioning myself about their system of values that made possible the protests. What do they really want? What is that freedom? Freedom to have enough money? To buy fashionable clothing and cars? That is understandable. But if it is freedom of speech, freedom of thought, than I don’t understand anything.

From the alien standpoint it looks like people just have too much energy, and after energy will dissipate and activity will decay, everything will return to the stable state, to the beginning, possibly with different faces but system won’t change. It is too late to wish changes on the scale of a single state. The speed, interdependence and complexity of the world are too high for this.

Talking about difference between tyranny and democracy (or between religions) was good for ancient Greece, today there are no differences, it is all the same.

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