tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667715099331757257.post6622367159551585678..comments2023-05-31T05:25:51.153-07:00Comments on The real truth: A slap on Team Anna’s wrists by the Bombay HC….Prashanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05179662957363875423noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667715099331757257.post-25710172277219163892011-12-23T22:16:10.098-08:002011-12-23T22:16:10.098-08:00Trying to post a comment. Hope it goes thru. This ...Trying to post a comment. Hope it goes thru. This entire Team Anna issue has brought forth a completely new question to the forefront- is Popular Democracy the best form of governance. Today, Anna enjoys so much popularity he cud easily win an election. For a moment imagine that happens. And by a leap of imagination lets imagine, that by a popular vote, Team Anna comes.to power.....what will happen to this country? There wud be economic upheavel bec no one in fhat team has any idea about Commrce and Economics. The entire country wud become a prohibition state and anyone found drinking would be "belted" publicly (is it conjuring images of saudi arabia). The entire country would become a Police State (much like China) bec EVERYONE wud be viewed suspiciously. Courts wud have to get their decisions ratified by some supreme body (like Lokpal). There wud be very low.tolerence for anything that is western (bec Anna's Gandhian "jeans" are going to kick in. In short its likely fo become an over disciplinarian state slowly inching towards authoritarianism and then finally totalitarianiam. Now all this may be an exxagerrated extrapolation of a democratic possibility, but the point is that Popular Democracy can pretty much yield this sort of a.scenerio. Which is what has really started bofhering me. Before this Democracy was the unrivalled option of governance. But now, while not going as far as saying that "masses are asses", I have been acutely aware of the "thinking abilities" of the common man. Hence the trepidition of handing over my own fate to those chosen by a band of people who cud well be suffering from the syndrome of "limited thinking*Nikhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03363577503813808934noreply@blogger.com