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Elections and the people (cess)pool

Socialism/Communism made the mistake of evaluating people as potical animals, mostly they do not rank above social animal category. Even Gandhi when arranging the first democratic elections in India in a principality state, only allowed the educated to paricipate. With basic literacy rate approaching an average 30%, no wonder Indian elections have been following the principle of GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) in computing science.

People should have voting rights only if they can demonstrate that they have the capability to contribute to the political cause. So, maybe some basic literacy or higer education should be a bonus for their electoral contribution. A class 4 pass person should get one vote, exponentially increasing with theit kind and level of education(and or profession/job/role, so 8 pass should get 3 votes, finally a PhD should get 100 votes. The same scale can add the illiterate also at the bottom of the scale.

Each one having one vote is basically allowing elections to go to the dogs and wolves to get elected. People have not achived much in general over the human history, except follow the basic Darwinian principles and manage to survive and increase in poulation. Some few have contibuted beyond basic animal like subsistence and lead the overall race to higher thought and purpose. We are standing on the shoulders of these giants. The majority have not contributed to these achivements but only idly pluck the fruits of their labor.

This somnolent majority will happily overestimate their importance and intelligence but overall contribute to regression, as is their nature. A simple logical projection of human progress marks the years preceding the present days as the peak of human achievement i.e when we peaked in intelligence and capabilties before automation reduced demands on our grey matter. Even a london cabbie had to pass exams of the entire road network before getting licensed. Now even libraries are redundant with Google scholar digitizing all printed matter.

The future is going to increase reliabilty of human mental muscle on automatons, and just like sedentary lifestyles and excess diets promoted an obesity epidemic, we are likely to have an idiocy epidemic feeding off junk information fed by social media. Symptoms are already showing in Modi and Trump like leaders who exploit this opportunity.


At the extreme, with Smartness no longer a valuable criteria for survival, Looks will dominate and stupidity will propagate.

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