Democracy is the Worst Form of Government and We Have an Alternative!

“People are naturally born as Libertarians till governments and oppressive societies force them to adopt their ideologies and their ways.” 

 Hany Ghoraba

We tried them all. Slavery was a very efficient form of political order for centuries if not millennials. It would be beautiful and utopian to believe that one day the slaves woke up and realized that Spartacus was right all the way. The very same day the masters became ashamed of their abhorrent manners and set all those good men free. Probably, it was much more mundane. There was that smart man who realized an economic inefficiency of such a system and persuaded a small minority of other not-so-stupid people to make things work better.

Tyranny didn’t seem to work out that well either. Well, it never does. People know that no one has the right to dictate them what to do. Slavery is long abolished, remember? Well, the irony is it has much less to do with the reason, but rather with the psychology of a tyrant who went a bit too far and frustrated some good friends of his. Caesar wasn’t stabbed by his outraged slaves, neither was Pol Pot assassinated by his tortured nation, if memory serves me well.

Fascism and Nazism were those nice forms of political system where there existed some good old chaps who are right because they are of the “right ancestry”. It all would be fine if not for the outlandish belief that other nations should be exterminated because of their inferiority. Having known no alternative slaves might have believed that serving other people is a way to go. However, no rational human being can believe he should die because someone thought it is a good idea. I want “everything and fast” logic didn’t help Hitler’s rule either.

Communism had to be a perfect reincarnation of Thomas Mann’s “Utopia” if not for the fact that the ruling elite was resting on the bones of people, who were supposed to be "equal brothers" and share the same rights and quality of life. Looks like the system was closer to a perverted bloodthirsty capitalism way more than the expected reincarnation of “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

1991. Bipolar world is gone leaving us with an absolute winner and a precondition for today’s “democracy”: capitalism, - a system where individual freedom and property rights trump all the government attempts at dictating their absolute will.

So here we are, in a perfect world of democracy, freedom of speech and universal human rights. It must take quite some time for all the world to approach the “developed” democratic states. But should work out.

Wait a minute. Should it, really? Is this indeed a perfect world we are dreaming of and which we are fighting for? You might be lucky enough to live in a country you consider to be democratic. But how democratic do you consider the world you are living in?

If we think that a notion of nationalism or minority domination is gone, we should think again to realize that it simply migrated into a well-disguised notion of national democracies. We are denouncing the caste system in India as derogatory and unfair, while tolerating the same principle penetrating our life for years. While we consider nationalism as a passé, the fact is that we found ourselves in a world dominated by economic nationalism, which does not merely touch imported goods but each and every one of us.

Global community believes that carrying that paper thing and showing the proof of your good intentions when visiting another country is a normal procedure, just as slaves and North Koreans believe they are doomed to such life because they never knew the alternative. National communities also think that being guaranteed a good job in their “developed” country is a natural human right and their government’s obligation. The fact that some Indian or Chinese can do the same job 4 times better does not shed a light of doubt on the national-socialist minded humanity.

The fact that an Azeri has to get a European citizenship to have the same rights as people born in France seems as normal as the fact that British are currently applying for Polish passports to be able to further enjoy their European rights after the absurd referendum of June. The fact that the line for non-EU citizens takes 3 times longer than for Europeans seems to be in a way of things. The fact that you should live for years as an illegal immigrant without the right to leave the United States in order to be able to apply for a green card in the nation of immigrants seems a bit strange. But hey, you can always marry an American citizen to enjoy the normal “democratic” human rights in this country.

The examples are endless and the absurdity of such “democracy” is endless as well. We are living in the world of “Gattica” with the only distinction being not the way of being born but the stamp in your birth certificate. Then why no rational person stands up and says: “Wait, guys, this makes no sense. A Norwegian murderer and an American rapist have more rights than a hard-working Palestinian engineer or a death-escaping Syrian refugee. This is inacceptable.”

No one is saying those words not because they are weird, but because they are inconvenient. They are inconvenient for the ruling elite, politicians and the majority of rich in this world. Well, they are pretty inconvenient for the majority of people in the so-called “democratic society” as well. It is way too easy to have it all because you are born in the right place rather than achieve your dream because you are the best. We are fed by the beauty of patriotism from an early childhood since it is a sure way to cement a current world order. The rich and successful of this world are clinging to those old national boundaries since they have not figured out a safe way to earn money in the world that is unavoidably coming.

Currently politicians keep stirring national debates because without nation-states they will be as redundant as the workers of an assembly line after the Industrial Revolution. The fact is they have already become puppets in the hands of global capital, of transnational corporations. The only difference is that those "economic Leviathans" are way more interested in globalization and universal access to Internet and goods than the “ruling elites”. And it is exactly those technological corporations that will define the future world order.

The coming Golden Age of Technology will allow us to stop living off the victories and failures of the past, but give us an opportunity to harness the potential that the present and the future are unfolding in front of us. The computational capacity, universal Internet access and infallible detection technologies will enable a world of true human dignity and personal achievement. Family values, compassion and love for the Planet will not be diminished but rather strengthened and encouraged by the technology-enabled global citizenship.

All your data will be stored in the computers scattered all around the world. It will be everywhere and nowhere. You will not have to spend hours on the border control waiting for the check and scan of your papers. In fact, there will be no borders as such. You will become a global citizen of choice and deliberation and will look at the historical nation states as an interesting and curious phenomenon of the savage people of greed, romanticism and limitation.

Service industry and e-commerce, biotechnology and space exploration, environmental protection and physics, - those would be the major “industries” of the future. People will be able to realize their inborn potential rather than pursuing what once used to be considered a “sustainable” job, since they will be able to live where they want rather than where they are bound to. AI will take care of farming, production, programming and cleaning. Humanity that will chose to live in a Golden Age of Technology will live its true dream, an equal and fair life of achievement rather than fate, of universal love and understanding rather than borders and suspicion, of endless possibilities rather than bureaucratic limitations.