Democracy is dead

By Jethro Bakker

Gone are the days where the people can only decide who will decide for them.

Power to the people is one of the most recognized and fought for ideas in human history and thanks to this wonderful, invisible network of binary and electricity, we, the human race, can have exactly that.

Really important decisions like why we should go to jail and whether or not we should build power lines over schools and such.

These few people, with their own agenda’s and ambitions, with their own seemingly bottomless pockets to fill. Their ten wives and one hundred children, deciding how we millions, ne billions, should spend our short and important time on this earth.

Deciding where our hard earned taxes should go and laughing as we sit in silence while they decide to spend it rather on their private homes to insane amounts. In the millions. Our taxes!

Which is exactly what it is! Taxes belong to us!

They are supposed to be logically budgeted and used on things to better us as a community, as a province, as a country!

Better roads, education, food and shelter for the destitute of all races, medical research and services, police and security enforcement and you can literally go on forever!

Entrepreneurial assistance, which does exist, but with so many rules and red tape that even if you follow the guidelines and receive government subsidiary, you are doomed to inevitable failure anyway!

But we can’t blame anyone for this endeavour.

Its only human nature plain and simple.

It’s the way we all are.

I personally consider human nature to be the ultimate catch 22 scenario.

We all as individuals want to strive to have more than the person next to us. It is this desire and drive that pushes us to invent, build and improve all aspects of our lives and our world.

It is also the reason why we burn and dig and use until one day our planet simply won’t be able to support our existence here anymore.

But fret not dear reader, all hope is not lost and only a bit of change is required.

And thank God, and man, for inventing the tool to exact such a change.

Imagine this.

You wake up, make yourself a cup of coffee, turn on your computer and, because you are a good and caring human being (otherwise you wouldn’t bother) you log into a community wide, country wide or even a worldwide daily voting system where you and the rest of the people who actually give a damn can vote together and decide on the important matters that are going to affect you and future generations.

You, and the millions around you, deciding together how recourses will be shared that in no way will suit your own personal agenda (because let’s face it, you are human too) but will improve your life as a whole.

Instead of time, man-power and capital being wasted to win over the public for the next election. We can all be the presidents and politicians!

Why should we decide who will decide for us when we have the tools and technology to communicate and make these decisions ourselves and together. The big and the small ones!

Tax is essentially a community pool of resources that we should all have a say in how it should be spent.

This is not an attack on the institute of government.

This is not an attack on presidents or politicians.

This is just a simple fact!

I know that any one of you out there, having worked so hard to achieve such a title would do exactly the same.

Like I said, it’s just human nature, and it’s a good thing. Otherwise we would not have come so far.

But it’s certainly plain to see that Democracy, having served us very well, has seen its day and as we are an ever changing and growing species, must at sometime come to somewhat of an end.

It’s time for Democracy to retire and make way for a new, less corruptible and perfectly possible system to be born.

I personally believe that I should and would run for president with this exact campaign strategy in mind. Effectively giving my own title as president absolutely zero meaning.

But I would absolutely support anyone who would do this in my stead.

Perhaps a greater and more educated man.

Thank you for reading this article. I hope it has inspired you to think a little more about the distribution of power. And so I say God bless you. And God bless the internet!

Amen!