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Intellocracy
Intellocracy
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Democracies have failed to provide viable governments the people as per their expectations and aspirations for its main lacuna of being only quantitative with no quality consideration of the constituents. This calls for addition of intellect to democratic procedures. The new system is called 'Intellocracy' by the Author.

The book contains philosophies and provisions of Intellocracy with exemplified failures of democracy. The last section briefs on struggle for a changeover to Intellocracy by the Intellectuals.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRam Bansal
Release dateNov 6, 2012
ISBN9781301087082
Intellocracy
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Ram Bansal

An Engineering Graduate from University of Roorkee, India (now an IIT) of 1971 batch, has served Engineering Profession for 35 years, now devoted to Social Engineering, Research into Vaidic Scriptures, and Authorship for changing the humanity - the way it thinks.

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    Intellocracy - Ram Bansal

    Intellocracy

    (An Intellectual Superset of Democracy)

    Ram Bansal

    Copyright Ram Bansal 2012

    Published at Smashwords

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    Preface

    Democracy is a purely quantitative approach of giving power of self-rule to the people. It needs to be provided with a qualitative aspect too. For this, every adult citizen need be evaluated on an intellectual scale and his/her voting right must correspond to his/her rating on that scale. With this intellectual input to democracy, the new political system is named as 'Intellocracy'.

    For a nation to progress, her citizens need be healthy and educated and they must get justice at right time to be free from fear and exploitation from the mighty. These are not only requirements of the individual but responsibilities of the state too. Therefore, Intellocracy proposes availability of health, education and judicial services uniformly to all free of cost. Further, production and distribution of all narcotics and intoxicants need be fully prohibited.

    Land is a natural resource of a country like air, water, etc. Private ownership of land has proved detrimental to humanity through causing wide economic disparities. Patriotism is necessary for nation's progress and prosperity, and this should not be expected from a citizen not having a piece of land in the nation for putting his/her feet on. This dictates that every family unit in a nation must be provided with a respectable piece of land free of cost as a token of citizenship for building a home on.

    Over the years, government employees are pampered a lot by ruling politicians making them the richest community in the country. Their incomes are 5 to 10 times of those of their equivalent non-government employees, while they themselves are responsible for incomes of common people of the country. Therefore, average wage of government employees need be made equal to that of other people of the nation. In addition to this wage ratio of highest to lowest level of employees be limited to 20 percent only.

    Sections of Contents

    Missed Essence of Democracy,

    Evils Democracy has Caused,

    Indian Experience of Democracy,

    Philosophies behind Intellocracy,

    Basic Provisions of Intellocracy

    Struggle for a Changeover

    About the Author

    Section A : Missed Essence of Democracy

    Section Contents

    Principles of Governance

    Genesis and Misunderstanding of Democracy

    Why Democracies are Failing

    Principles of Governance

    After the tribal life of humanity, three major theories of ruling the people had been put forth so far.

    Democritus's Principle of Absolutism 

    Athens was the first civilized state on the Earth having a lot of philosophers which included astronomers, social scientists and material scientists. Democritus was a famous social scientist of Athens about 2,500 years back from now. 

    Democritus was a utilitarian who disliked all strong passions, was a believer in evolution - both astronomical and biological, and was a proponent of freedom of speech even to the slaves which were an essential part of society then. His put forth his concept of 'absolutism' according to which human intellect is to be treated as absolute with everything else being relative to it. As per him, human intellect, by its nature itself, knows the absolute truth.  

    On the basis of absolutism, the first ruling system was devised by Democritus and applied on city state of Athens about 2500 years back from now and it was known as Democracy to honor the promoter. In this system, all willing citizens of the city state used to assemble at Athena - a memorial of a girl of this name who defended her country and was brutally killed by the invaders, and take collective decisions of common interest to be handed over to the state's administrators for implementation. 

    Plato's Principle of Relativism

    Plato was about 30 years junior to Democritus and a staunch opponent of his principle of absolutism and democracy. He was inducted into Athens by Spartans as their mole to subvert Athens rise to popularity around the globe as the first and the foremost human civilization.  He became a disciple of Socrates - the topmost intellectual of Athens, and established a school named 'Academy' in Athens. 

    Plato, in his book 'The Republic', put forth his principle of relativism, according to which human knowledge and intellect were relative and far from the absolute truth which is timeless and unchanging. knowledge is only a sensory perception which keeps on changing with time and circumstances. The true reality is revealed to a select few only who are born to rule the common people. 

    Accordingly, Plato proposed a totalitarian rule by the select few, self-appointed oligarchy, through thought control, censorship and inculcation of fierce nationalism. This was then known as 'politics' derived from word 'polish' the superficiality.

    Locke's Principle of Relativism

    According to this principle, all human-beings derive their knowledge dependent on their circumstances and as such nobody would have absolute knowledge. So, all human-beings are incomplete as compared to an all-knowing ideal human-being which is non-existent. All human societies are composed of such incomplete humans. Since, all are incomplete in their knowledge, so are equal to each other and hence, nobody has a right to rule over others. Therefore, all must be treated at par and must tolerate each other's incompleteness. This is the basis of modern democracies all over the globe.  

    What We Learn

    From the three principles outlined above, first we take up Plato's relativism. This is the principle on which human dignity was sacrificed for benefits of a few. Godliness and Divine interventions have been the basis of this principle aimed at misleading people and keep them under rule of the few. Religions, spirituality, astrology, incarnations, etc. have been outcomes of this principle imperiling humanity till today. Even Europe had been in this grip for a long period but got rid of through process of renaissance. For the sake of human dignity, this principle need be discarded for all times to come.

    Locke's principle of relativism, being based on negativity of incompleteness, inculcates negative feeling of inferiority in the minds of constituents. Secondly, incompleteness of knowledge does not mean that all have same degree of incompleteness and so are equal. Therefore, incompleteness of each individual has to be measured to give him/her an appropriate importance in a social system. The principle is ill-found on these counts. 

    Human knowledge is ever expanding through use of human intellect as time passes on. So, our knowledge base is incomplete at any time with respect to a future point of time but is complete at the time of the consideration. Secondly, human intellect is the best possible resource at our command and we must rely on it and respect it. This is what the principle of absolutism means to us in our present context. We can do the best through following this principle whatever short-comings it may have. 

    In city state of Athens of ancient times, when Democritus put forth this principle, his view was limited to Athens of that time wherein all constituents were intellectuals and disciplined citizens of the state. Being a small entity, they were having feelings of nationalism, and everyone had the same objective of furthering human civilization through scientific advancements. That situation is non-existent in today's world, disparities in resources and intellect have been widening wherein a lot of people are suffering under oppressions and exploitations of a few wealthy and strong persons. Material wealth has shown backdoor to human intellect, imperiling human dignity, which we need to re-establish. Devising a ruling system wherein human intellect - symbol of human dignity, is given prime importance is the need of the times. This is what 'Intellocracy' aims at. 

    Genesis and Misunderstanding of Democracy

    In the first idealist city state of Acropolis, now known as Athens, seeds of democracy were sown by Democritus, a leading philosopher of those times. The city state population was small and there were not much of economic and lifestyle disparities among the generally learned and thoughtful people. The idea of Democritus was to establish an institution of organizing people and providing common services to them based on consensus or a majority view. There was thought of ruling the people through this new system, called Democracy. For the similarity of circumstances and lifestyles of all the people, they used to think similarly and needed similar facilities from the setup, generally.

    This institution was set up after they had boldly and collectively countered with success an invasion on the city state. In this confrontation, a girl called Athena lost her life in saving honor and independence of the state. This experience had induced a need of collectivism in the people. To meet this wish of people, Democritus devised Democracy.

    As headquarter and assembly place for people to take collective decisions, they built up a huge complex on a hill top, remains of which are still existing. As its central attraction, a statue of Athena was also installed at the place. Youths of the city state used to take oath before the statue to defend their city state by all their resources without caring for life.

    The city state was invaded, captured and ruined by Philip of Macedonia, said to be official father of Alexander. After this invasion, the topmost philosopher and alchemist of Acropolis, Socrates was arrested and poisoned with the aim of killing him. Plato and Aristotle, who had masterminded this invasion by Philip through working as a mole of Yavans (originally Ionians) under their Academy in the city state, managed destruction of all the written works of Democritus for their propagation of valuing collective wisdom of people. Aristotle was the pioneer of Aristocracy, and later became guide and teacher of Alexander. Invasion of Asia, Africa and India by Alexander was master-minded by Aristotle.    

    About Socrates, although the official history says that Socrates was killed. But Indian scriptures indicate that he saved his life and came to India and worked here with a new name of Sushrut, the leading alchemist of those times, and as one of the founders of Ayurveda – the Indian system of medicine. All surviving citizens of acropolis, known as Acropols, also came to India and settled and build a new city with the name Agra. The Acropols were given a new Indian name of Agrawals. In honor of the heroic girl Athena, the city now existing around that place is named Athens which is now the capital of Greece.

    Why Democracies are Failing

    Democracy is so far considered to be the best system of governance for its presumably providing the people to elect their own government through a majority vote. Thus, it is basically the rule by the majority of the people. Its other presumptions are -

    # People are educated enough to judge the candidates' worth,

    # People have no compulsions to favor a particular candidate,

    # People are not allured for personal gains and vote freely and fairly,

    # People vote in accordance to merit of the candidates to form a good government,

    # People are not intoxicated or hypnotized

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