The Future Governments By T.S.Khanna, Sept.,14, 2013

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September14, 2013.

The Future Governments

T.S.Khanna, September 14, 2013

In the past, humanity has experienced two basic types of governments: Dictatorial (age old) and Democratic (recent in history).  Dictatorial governments served best when people believed in the divine power of the dictator.  Democracy has caused a growing awareness of the rights of the people weakening the belief in the divine power of the dictator.

At the same time, the most vigorous American democracy has exposed its own failings in common with all other younger democracies born during the twentieth century.  The failing include but not limited to (a) indecision and postponement of political decisions and arriving at lowest quality fragile decisions made by weak compromises; (b) inefficiency and corruption becoming the culture of government; (c) lack of accountability and uneconomical governmental operations as a commonly accepted practice; (d) value freedom of individuals and groups stretched to the point of making the whole society value-free; (e) emphasis on representative democracy and individual freedom to the point of destroying the emotional unity necessary to hold the society together resulting in atomization of the society.

Most democratic countries have common problems: (a) outdated constitutions, and, (b) due to diversity and disagreements, their inability to amend them.

Human mind is unlimited in illusions and imaginations but human knowledge and operations are limited to physical realities.  Both types of governments have political ideologies based on articulation of illusions and imaginations with misleading emotional appeal.  Now, as those ideologies intersect with realities, their weaknesses are exposed.

The present form of dictatorship no longer commands the public acceptance and the present form of democracy no longer meets the public expectations.

Every society takes pride in its past.  The pride and practices of the past usually resist the needed change in light of the new political experiences and advancing technology.  The future demands that both types of governments may rationally analyze their weaknesses and make amends for the satisfaction of the people.

Basic problem with both types of governments is that they do not have any well designed monitoring and adjustment mechanism in place to keep them abreast with public needs of the changing times.

In the future, for their own survival, the dictatorial governments may have to be less dictatorial and democratic governments may have to be less democratic.