So, let’s go!

The question that puzzles me is:
Why have we allowed, permitted or given a few, measured and specific people so much power that they can willfully or unintentionally, consciously or irresponsibly, do harm to many of us and even all of us?

Why, even at this moment, do we still allow some specific people in some specific positions with some specific roles who have the ability at any time to influence our lives in any way they want to or even destroy our lives?

How have we allowed things to evolve, what intermediate steps have we consented to, so that today someone at the push of a button, and in other cases because they didn’t push a button, can destroy many, if not all?

Why should some leaders of states, some position holders afford to not appreciate, to play around with, to deceive, to corrupt, even to destroy everything that people have been trying to build for millennia?

Why do we allow such uncontrolled by us absolute centralization of power?

And why is the bearer of such great power not controlled?

We are told that we live in a democratic constitution, and in most cases in a representative democratic constitution. Which is this democratic constitution that we live in, when our voices are not heard? Democracy, which is revolutionarily proposed centuries ago by some ancient Greeks, was characterized and built on the grounds that the voices of the citizens were heard.

Which voice is heard today? No matter what one says, no matter how much one shouts, do-gooders appear to disguise the voice, to cover up the position, to smear whoever is speaking, as if who is speaking is more important than what they say, to redirect public opinion and to entertain impressions.

Given the internet, given the social networks, given the trendy hashtags of liberating and informing people about everything, are we all living a vital lie, an illusion of expression and freedom, a liberating lack of freedom of expression and participation in the public sphere?

And if you are one of those few who want to find and understand why, just think about who benefits from such a situation and management.

That person is probably not you and me. The only ones who benefit from such an unfair and, for many, damning imbalance of power and influence are the centers of power, economically first and foremost, politically and socially. They were, are and will be those few ones, who can and do much only for the few ones, and especially for themselves, and who do just a little for the many more others beyond themselves. They are the ones who are almost always present, applauding and presiding in the sharing of every pie, and almost always absent in the sharing of every responsibility.

And you know what? The problem is not just that these few want it that way and do it that way by exploiting a system, political in most cases, that they themselves created to primarily serve themselves. It is that they themselves present whatever they want, however they want, whenever they want it, and demand that everyone else across and around them to be convinced by what they say.

As if no one else beyond them can see what is going on, no one else can think, and no one else can understand that they themselves are not served by such a system. As if everyone else besides them is mindless, stupid or even naive.

Representative democracy doesn’t work. And it doesn’t work because we don’t have democracy and we don’t have representation. When was the last time your opinion was heard? When was the last time you influenced any decisions or developments?

Democracy is not the state system, which we remember once every 4 years, because we are bombarded with whatever “inexorable” consequences of the law if we don’t live up to our “mandatory” right to vote.

Let’s not forget that if most people do not consent to vote, the election results can be considered invalid or even null and void. And in such a case, who will lose the pie? Me and you or those few, the known and the self-selected?

That’s all for now and for today. I don’t really expect anything to change now with what I’ve said, though I won’t give up hope. After all, I didn’t publish these words to cause an immediate change right now. I presented some thoughts because I wanted to be in a position to say to myself that I managed to express myself disclosing my thoughts.

I look forward to your comments. So let’s get to know each other and see who’s who.

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