Reflections

My first elections and it got me thinking critically of democracy. Pretty much like how one questions one's faith from time to time. And it wasnt just me who voted for the first time. So many others expressed their reservations about the process of election and how susceptible it is to influence. But the bigger reservation was on the system itself. Democracy! Rule by the people, of the people, for the people. But what if the people are an uneducated lot. And what if these illiterate people really dont know as to what it is that will make their lives better other than guarantee of continued supply of food. What if this unaware lot has accepted their state as fate. What if they just want status quo and they are so hopeless and disillusioned that they dont expect and want change. Would such a nation have the judgement to choose the people who would be actually best for them? Plato answered the above question in the negative. According to him, "true democracy is the right to...