Our communication with 'Associated-Press', (AP) USA

Is the subject of media's role in the world dogmatic, unquestionable and un-alterable ?

21-07-2015

To: info@ap.org ( Associated Press, pioneer Media institution in the world)

Hi,

". . . .it can maintain its single-minded focus on news-gathering and its commitment to the highest standards of objective, accurate journalism.

AP’s commitment to independent, comprehensive journalism has deep roots. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and election"

Above text was copy-pasted from your 'about us' portion of web-site. 

We are a non-profit, concentrating on philosophical fundamentals of existing institutions, checking the contrast between their 'possible' and actual goals. We observe that, when Media stand tall as the all defining and all-expressing medium in modern-world, other institutions, traditions, meanings and norms turn largely depended upon them, for CHANGE, RE-DEFINITIONS, and RE-INVENTING. 

Truth and reality are what stand expressed, and the way they stand expressed. So, media being the singular medium in modern world that 'express' her, it define, give color and shape to the world !

Kant was very specific on the two world theory; the phenomenon, and that of NOUMENON. Phenomena, the world of senses, always depended on some or other stand point. So, Media being the exclusive agent of expressing the world, her ‘stand-point’ is extremely relevant to giving color and shape to world ! When she is obsessed with projecting the world 'objectively' a very subjective act as she only have the exclusive freedom to chose what should be expressed as 'objective' news/truth, a lot of 'subjectivity' crops into the act, even without her knowledge or intention.

We realize that what we have touched above  is a very complex theme, and an institution (media) that exists in the world for few centuries, may not be able to re-check and re-contemplate on such base fundamentals at this late stage. But remember, institutions and practices could be termed evil at any stage; take the example of European and US ‘SLAVERY’. 

So, this humble communication  is intended to knock at your supposedly OPEN disposition, to delve upon our dedicated blog-posts on the 'dire need of having a REINVENTED MEDIA' in contemporary world. The links of the said blogs are: http://mediaandcontentrelevance.blogspot.in/

 http://trueroleofmediaintheworld.blogspot.in/

http://lettertothehindunram.blogspot.in/

We are a philosophical entity and initiative, so what we have communicated might be odd and not akin to the norms of the day ! But, hope you would call your minds and have a brain-storm session, so that, future of mankind get a REINVENTED media 1

warm regards,

Abraham Joseph 

Founder 

www.conscienceofthesociety.com
Ps: November 2015: AP have not even acknowledged our above communication; no media person, or association ever rely or respond to communication from common-man, a clear sign of their lack of minimum social courtesy !

    

Our communication with Dr.Amartya Sen

Sub: Your famous theme of 'social choice' 

Respected Dr.Amartya Sen, 

Warm Greetings from a freelance Philosophic researcher from Delhi. I am part of a philosophic non-profit called 'conscience of the society' that keep its central CAUSE , ' A REINVENTED DEMOCRACY'. 

Besides the above cause, I personally was into a singular mission from my youthful years; an inquiry into the epistemological root of  ' human reason'. I, having been accepted the call of philosophy and thoughts in my life from childhood, was most baffled about how man fixes exactness of his knowledge. This question always ended up in and around man's faculty of reason ! What is this faculty ? I set-out to inquire.

After spending almost 3-4 decades on this problem, finally I have come out with the finding that faculty of reason can not be anything but man's INTERNAL SENSE ORGAN OF 'ORDER', an existential category similar to that of sight, sound and taste.  I compiled my findings in the shape of a paper, and sent to multiples of world universities, philosophical councils and professional journals, but without any result. I finally self-published this theme with Amazon.com, titled 'Is reason a sense organ? A super-mind above the known mind ? ' ( This book is Google/ Amazon.com searchable by the title) 

In the meantime, my paper titled ' IS MODERN DEMOCRACY A FAKE COIN'? ' was accepted by the 'International society for universal dialogue' (isud.org) based in Athens, Greece during June last year, and they invited to present my paper at their 9th Congress held at Olympia. The theme of the Congress was' Democracy; historical reflections and modern Transformations'. This acceptance of my thought and ideas enhanced my confidence substantially. I published my book with the same title at Amazon.com. ( title is Google/Amazon searchable) 

It is with this fragile confidence that I write this humble note to one of the most eminent minds of the age, in the field of thought, economics and polity ! 

Defining correct relation between the establishment of EQUAL MEN with its people is more primary than discussing 'social choice'

The chief purpose of this communication is to bring it into your kind notice that the very role of political establishment in modern democratic set-up is not yet defined properly, and then how can enlightened men like you and me jump to the subsequent issue of their  'social choices' ?  How can enlightened men leave such more central and primary issues such as the very identity of citizens under  governmental system of EQUAL MEN , and attend to subsidiary issues ? 

 I refer to the NOT yet fully defined role and relation of the democratic establishment and its rulers with its citizens. In democracy, people are  NOT 'subjects' like they were  in the old regimes,  but the ruler and the ruled here are at EQUAL footing !  The estates of the ruler and the ruled are but one here. 

Kings ruled on earth evoking their divine rights. When the American revolutionists opted to experiment with the old Greek system of democracy in their new land, though the great minds behind the effort cared almost everything to prevent the governmental system of people NOT to hinder the rights and liberty of citizens in the state, they had no fresh, new model of an establishment of EQUAL PEOPLE ready to adopt for their government of the people. Hence, the same old model of the POWER-STATE was adopted for the peoples own system of government too, which was a grave historical and ideological lapse !. Today, these rulers have no other model but to act and behave like their predecessors, as well as adopt the same VALUES towards the people as that of  their predecessors !

Concept of 'social-choice' presupposes an establishment that represents the collective sense of reason and wisdom of the people. Sad fact is that such a realm of collective is absent today due the presence of POLITICAL COMPULSIONS of the peoples governments, hence matters of SOCIAL CHOICE are determined by forces, energies, priorities and relevance far remote and unrelated to the plain and rational concern of social choices of a rational collective social authority ! 

As phenomenon of POLITICS is what controls modern democracies, and politics being  an art, and even a science of grabbing control over the POWER-STATES, social choices are determined by selfish agenda of political parties and its leader figures. These professional players are guided by primeval motives and energies that had been controlling the social choices of older regimes. People were merely 'state material' for the older regimes, wherein state was more central than its men. Modern democratic regimes also are  NOT different from those old regimes in those motives, and in the basic spirit of the 'ruler' and the 'ruled'.  Hence, tenets of SOCIAL CHOICES should not at all have been a major theme of study and research undertaken by the bests minds on the planet !

If I am right in my understanding of your Nobel prized paper on social choice, it was a well meant CRITIQUE about  Dr.Kenneth Arrow's theory of impossibility, a theory that said NO rational and mathematically correct conclusions could ever be arrived at, as to what a population as  a whole would want from the state. Hence, a rational 'social choice' is impossible. 

You have argued in your paper that ' Arrow's powerful impossible theory invites 'engagement', rather than resignation'. The examples you have cited to show the inadequacy of typical social research to measure poverty merely on the basic of income level was brilliant; a person may have higher income, but if he has a family member with Kidney failure, and under expensive dialysis, he may be more deprived than the poorest of poor in the community by all standards ! 

Your example for showing the falsehood of 'reported state of deprivation' was also brilliant; you wrote : ' the socially cultivated sense of contentment and serenity may even affect the perception of morbidity and illness'...you quoted the example of Kerala, where people are more educated, and aware of a better degree of health and morbidity standards. 

Modern democratic establishments does NOT represent the sacred, rational realm of the collective of man 

But, as I have attempted to convey above, the very issue of 'social choice' becomes null and void when there exists NO rational body of the collective of man today,  who could take up social choice issue in its genuine, rational sense and meaning. The 'realm of the 'collective of man' today stands abducted by professional groups and men, whose political interests, priorities and goals are what determine their 'social choice' task, than any social welfare, or human development oriented agenda. Hence, urgent attention of men like you who are engaged into such genuinely non-existing sub-realms of socio-economic-political reality should shift their attention towards the more primary issues of fixing the very realm of collective of man into a really rational, genuinely democratic and humane body. This is the crux of what I am trying to convey to you.

Prof.Christopher Vasillopulos ( Easter Connecticut State University, deptt. of history,philosophy and political science) wonders in his key note address during the isud.org's 9th Congress at Olympia: 'Canpolis-animals exist in the power-states? . . .Can the nation-state subordinate its concerns of national security, and its instruments of wealth, power, coercion, indiscriminate violence, and aggressive war, and become instead become an arena for the promotion of friendship and happiness ?'

Though we have such genuine anguish from the part of many eminent men today, our age is generally ignorant of the real danger the near anarchic 'realm of collective' that poses to the future  of human societies.  Prof. Christopher's concluding remark is apt to describe this situation: ' To date, however, the ability, or even he desire to restrain the power-state has not been sufficiently general to give our ruling elites pause'. 

This realm of collective is what controls, determines, and influences all other realms of man's life. When this all controlling realm is left to the whims and fancies of unscrupulous men and groups, and this danger is NOT in the general awareness of the mainstream reason or intelligence of mankind, how can we the men of mind and light remain mute witnesses ? 

Now the threat of world going back to the old type of regimes of Kings and his likes is remote. The threat is that of the collective realm of man being captured by tyrants and autocrats in the name of DEMOCRACY. As you would agree, present  rogue regimes like  Pakistan, North Korea etc are also claiming themselves as DEMOCRATIC !Hence, there is an urgent need for the  influx of new myths, new values and new definitions for modern age's man's realm of collective. 

This communication is specifically to appeal to you, one of the few personalities  who could grew to the level of a human institution and stature, with a ready and willing audience in the world to listen to you , and take note of what you say and express, to hint to the world about the above grave danger of the world that we live in ! A thousand books that people like us write and publish won't get the relevance of  what you say in the public sphere !  

Besides you, there are also few other men and groups who are equally potential in deviating the age's attention to its great vacuums; like Dr. Noam Chomsky, the Elders Community ( a forum of such eminent people like Arch-Bishop Tuto, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt etc.) My specific appeal to you is to share the above concern with those above referred, and discuss remedies. It would be the most rational action that would go a long way in changing the world for better, from your part !

I attempted to convey to the Elders community  the dire need of reinventing democracy so that lives of men could be reinvented on the planet. They wrote back with a statement from Jimmy Carter; ' "Where we feel a vacuum in the world, where there's a need that can be filled by us uniquely, that's when we decide to take on an issue." 

I replied them that there won't be any greater vacuum than the present vacuum of a genuinely sacred, rational realm of the collective of man today, to lead mankind into universal peace and happiness !

The general impression of openness and transparency in the world artificially created by media 

The 24x7 stories and debates at the public sphere through tv and news papers about our democratic political realm has succeeded in creating a general sense of openness and transparency about the current state of goings in the world. But is so smartly hidden that, only the ones in political and corporate power are aware of the real energies that in work in modern world, and its directions. To illustrate the veracity of this claim needs much more larger a platform and context than this brief e-mail interaction. I request you to share the said theme at my blog posts, from links: http://closedmodernworlddespitedemocracy.blogspot.in/

http://archaeologiesofthefuture.blogspot.in/

 The most vicious aspect of modern world in all respect is the existence of the institution of modern media, with their sole professional job of making interesting STORIES out of everything that happens in the world ! When men and events are reduced to mere news-worthy stories and features, just for the sake of it, unmindful of the necessity of leading mankind into sane and sober intellectual directions, the story of wilderness of the age becomes complete ! This exercise is handled by ordinary journalism graduates with inadequate historical, intellectual or moral knowledge about the world, mankind's civilizational needs, or the danger of creating such a synthetic world for peoples consumption. 

So, it is crucial that men like you intervene with your God given special status in the world, by hinting at the need of creative ideas for our 'realm of collective' of man. A mere hint would serve the purpose of a trigger; men of mind and thoughts would pick-up the tip, and start thinking on the need. 

Reason has two distinct functions; 

1) Its mechanical function of assessing through the existing premises, evidences in-front of it, and arriving at conclusions and inferences 

2) The more creative, SPECTRUM function; ie. reason's ability to give out new avenues, possibilities, sub-ideas of every ray of the chosen subject. It is a function yet unknown to mankind, though man was using it for centuries together. This special faculty of REASON was instrumental for all the inventions, creative ideas, and origin of new institutions in the world, that man had wrongly attributed to his intellectual power. 

This SPECTRUM faculty of man's reason, when applied to human existence in general, its bottom most tenets and paradigms would be reveled to enlightened minds. From this point, master premises emerge, or even could be formed as to what human societies need for its sustainable development and overall happiness and prosperity in the world. All his sub-strata of existence, like that of his political, educational, economic, social etc. realms should necessarily be ensured its logical compatibility with the earlier shown MASTER PREMISES, tenets and paradigms. Stand-alone political, social, economic ideas that can not linked with the base master-premises should never be allowed to apply, or spread in societies. Such a strict intellectual, social, political and economic base notion would prevent holocaust like ideas from emerging in the world as stand alone ideas ! Bases upon such master-premises for mankind and human civilization, threat of future world wars also could be contained and restricted, with ,massive, one voice public opinion. People like you must enact your historical role in the mainstream, by introducing these MASTER premises, and enlighten the world as a whole. 

Voices of isolated individuals like me is often treated as 'freak' voices, whereas when the same thing when emerges from the mouth of people like you, it gains sudden global relevance ! 

If you are unclear as to what I have attempted to convey in this communication, kindly respond to me, so that I could continue explaining to any extent.

I apologize for sending you such a long, unsought mail, but such subjects has no other route to communicate ! What this communication handles is mankind's future. 

I have a blog post that attempts to explain the concept of man's 'sacred realm of collective' that democratic establishments must be representing to its people, at link: http://anewtheoryondemocraticestablishment.blogspot.in/

With all respects and high regards, 

( We neither received any reply, not even an acknowledgement from Dr. Sen)

Sent during 2014

  

   

Does the spirit of Magna-carta alive today in the desired form and degree?

Our communication with the Sr.Journalist Sh. Prasannan at 'THE WEEK' magazine, June 7th issue 

( Magazine link: http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekSectionView.do?tabId=13&programId=1073755753&BV_ID=@@@)


Subject: Prasannan's cover story ' A chartered flight to liberty' , June 7th,2015 issue :

 Does the spirit of Magna-Carta alive today in the desired form and degree?

From: "Abraham Joseph"<ajoseph1@rediffmail.com> Sun, 31 May '15 12:21a

To: "prasannan@theweek.in"<prasannan@theweek.in> and others


Dear Prasannan,


Warm greetings from 'conscience of the society', the non-profit initiative at NCR,
( National capital region of Delhi) that stands for philosophical research into freedom, reason, mind and polity !

Appreciate you for bringing out this important and very relevant cover-story on Magna-Carta treaty, the first document in human-history that introduced the concept of Freedom, outside the Royal family. Your story was so exhaustive, that it read more like an extended history of Great Britain.

Though it seems your intention behind writing the said cover story was to highlight the 800th anniversary of the great Treaty, and its role as a great base for many of the important documents on freedom in the world like constitutions of many nations, including that of India, it naturally and automatically brought-out some very central facts about the eternal plight of man for genuine human-freedom !


It brought-out a fact that ( though indirectly) freedom and rights are very fragile propositions when Power
( Royal or otherwise) is present as an over-riding influence. ' Trial by law' and similar prescribed formalities remain mere rituals when Power is present in the scene as a real, all overriding force !


In one of the most interesting incidents in your story, wherein Edward-11 was killed by his wife Isabella by inserting a red-hot poker into his anus, a 'trial of law' had also took place !


Edward-111 also killed his mother's lover, of course after a similar ritual of a 'fair-trial' !


Then your story confirms that, though the Tudor King-Henry-X111 did not ever listen to parliament, the parliament ' did not dare to question him'! Means, when Power is present, tenets of rights and freedom stand null and void, or melt !


The heroic story of Sir Thomas More also was same. Even at death, he could only recite the tenets of freedom and rights, but they could never save his freedom, or life !

During Charles-1's time, both the parliament and the King had to take arms to settle the question of Freedom and rights ! Both the groups evoked the name of 'parliament' while fighting for supremacy ! It should remind us the trend of present day, wherein every political party, and even totalitarian regimes like in Communist China evoke 'PEOPLES' name when indulging in power-wars to capture the thrones, or for unleashing oppressive acts upon real people ! Peoples’ name or brand is falsely taken to avail power in their name, but to use it against him in actual act of governance ! It is the greatest fraud and self-deception of our times !

Your story clearly teaches readers another silent lesson: rights and freedom act like dew when Political or other power is present. Rights and freedom turns REAL for people, only as a 'mercy', or as chance 'weakness', or chance sense of MORALITY possessed by some ‘chance’ RULERS, at chance periods in the history of nations!

In real and concrete sense, rights and freedom are still NOT different from that in those antique days of Kings and autocrats, because, even today in modern democracies like in India, rights and freedom of common-citizens has to seep through with great-difficulty, the corridors of POWER that still remain as the chief fuel of modern DEMOCRACY !

It will always remain my luck ( the citizen’s luck) if I escape an encounter with Police during my life time, similar to my luck of not turning a direct victim of the POWER-tactics of a tax official ! If I remain a rights- activist, or a Muslim, or a Maoist ideologue, chances of such LUCK will turn half or even zero !. See the struggle for rights and freedom undertaken by Irom Sharmila of Manipur, since 2000 ,for the abolishment of the AFSPA ? ( Armed Forces Special Power Act ) She had to abandon her normal life under our welfare state, as she had to remain under home-arrest and forced nasal feeding ever-since she had started her protest !

Where is the relevance of Magna-Carta or its influence in the modern world ? If you caught talking against any reputed leader, whether it is Jayalalitha in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu where citizens treat her as semi-God, or Modi in Delhi, their cronies and devotes will see to it that you will get behind the bars for sure !

You mentioned in your story that, Coke was able to ' stir the minds of people' through his writings in 1634 , when newspapers were absent. Today, there is 24x7 printed and electronic media outlets are there to STIR the minds, but do our media STIR, or even remind people about the above calamity of FREEDOM and RIGHTS getting melted and VANISHED in the presence of Political-Power ?


They (The media) have turned partners in the business of power, with the assigned task of 'manufacturing consent", as clearly explained in our blog: http://mediaandcontentrelevance.blogspot.in/

Dear Prasannan, I politely appeal to you to utilize the convenient means already available at your disposal ( this magazine column) to write more and more, and again and again on the evil of keeping POWER as the fuel for running govts of EQUAL -MEN ! If mankind get-rid of the necessity of POWER as the fuel of RULING over people, which is the prime cause of all human violence as described at our blog: http://understandinginflationinanewlight.blogspot.in/, world could achieve a PARADIGM-shift in her intellectual, social and even spiritual direction !


Could we ever think of allowing people to enter inside the shops to pick-up their merchandise and pay later at counter till a few years ago ? See, how naturally people could adapt to FREEDOM, and behave responsibly in our uncountable Malls these days ? Think of the days wherein to meet the urgency of even for Rs.100/ -we had to approach the instant gold-loan companies a few years ago, before Credit cards have become popular. Credit cards were a similar revolution in 'believing' in the responsibility and sense of dignity of men; now, people responsibly avail such credit, and repay with equal sense of responsibility !

With govts. not infected with the mythical political Power urge, one day, similar citizen responsibility could be expected and envisioned ! Please see our blog, what should a true democracy represent to people, at link: http://anewtheoryondemocraticestablishment.blogspot.in/

Prasannan, kindly plan a cover story on FREEDOM of citizen vis-a-vis Governmental-power soon !

warm regards,

Abraham Joseph

www.conscienceofthesociety.com

A new world-order: Our communication on the subject with opinion-leaders

Our e.mail to Mr. C. Raja Mohan, Eminent scholar, and a distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, ( ORF) a prestigious think-tank

Ref. Your article in Indian Express today, ' Beyond the boundary'‏

 

11-05-2015

To: crmohan@orfonline.org Cc: center for policy research, ashok malik, sriramanujamissiontrust@gmail.com

Sub: What most effectively Modi and his govt. could have represented India to the world ? 

Dear Raja Mohan, 

Please accept warm Greetings from 'conscience of the society', an independent philosophy and polity research (non-profit) initiative at NCR! 

We maintain a website, as well as a blog site, from where you could learn more about us. The links are:www.conscienceofthesociety.com, ( web-site) and https://www.blogger.com/profile/14249415589712707293 ( our blogger-page)

Your above referred article seems appreciative of Modi's representing India to the world as 'leading power', deviating from her previous 'non-alignment-trap'. This is to share our bit philosophic view that, in these times of world getting increasingly apprehensive of the post-enlightenment, industry centered 'development' agenda of governments, and its almost reached saturation point, India's late attempt to project her as the new champion of such a dying out-look, does not deserve any acclamation and applause. 

The deteriorating economic and socio-political status of European and US governments is prime-evidence of the saturation of the old libertarian outlook on human progress. You know with what effort US government has been trying to suppress the 'occupy wall-street' and similar agitations of general public from going wild and uncontrollable. 

World really deserve a new philosophy of human-development, wherein wealth and resources does not increasingly result in the accumulation in fewer and fewer hands, as recent authentic studies such that of Oxfam and Zurich University  have proven. ( these studies showed, more than 55% of world's entire wealth and resources are in the pockets of less than 1% elite men, families and corporate empires !) 

I appeal to you to share our dedicated to the subject blogs, at links: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141206035825-97217672-freedom-and-free-

market-mutually-complementary?trk=mp-author-card

In such a scenario, an Indian leader, with a strong Hindu philosophy and teaching back-ground, could have stood for a different world view, different from that of the tried and not-succeeded model of 'development' of nations and economies. He is said to be a declared disciple of Swami Vivekananda, hence he could have proudly and strategically advocated for development of mankind in altered ways and means, thus giving modern world an altogether different direction !

Hindu philosophy, though his political party has caused irrepairable damage to its ancient and unique teachings, could have been revived under his genuine affinity towards the great religion. 

The most conspicuous feature of Hinduism is its advocating the advantage of selflessness, or no-self. Sense of self is 'maya', as per basic tenet of Hinduism. The very basic tenet of Hinduism is renouncement of self, something gravely opposite to the libertarian philosophy of 'development' through minding for 'self-interest'. This European post-enlightenment age world-view give all centrality to supporting the creative entrepreneural energies of the individual, and celebrating individual success. 

I leave this deeply philosophical subject to a detailed scholastic seminar at your parent organization -ORF, wherein I was fortunate to attend a round-table conference recently on 'rural inequality and role of government'.  

I opt to refer to another blog-post of us that deals with the possibility of modern world looking for other options of human-development, based on alternative philosophies from non-Western sources, at link: http://follyofcontrollingtheother.blogspot.in/

It is sad to notice that, eminent men of mind like you and many others have more or less turned expert commentators and opinion leaders on the existing socio-political system and order, wherein mankind's future tend to get stagnated for want of new ideas and new directions for a better-world. When dedicated institutions in the contemporary world with traditional role for guiding mankind towards better-future, like media, universities and human-rights organizations have got degenerated as mere wings and instruments of the establishments themselves, the only HOPE for future is your class of men ! 

Kindly treat this communication in its right-spirit, as attempt of mind-exchange between well concerned human-beings !

warm regards,

Abraham J. Palakudy

www.conscienceofthesociety.com: An independent Philosophy, mind, and polity research ( non-profit) initiative

contact us at : conscienceofthesociety@hotmail.com 

    

    

Our communication with.Sitaram Yechuri, regarding the historic role the Left could play in world-affairs

Our e.mail sent to Mr.Sitaram Yechuri in May 2015, regarding historic role the Left could play in world-affairs 

Ref. Yechuri's article in HT today , ' An event some wish to forget'‏

06-05-2015

To: cpim ( Communist party of India-Marxist) 

Sub: Can the political LEFT sincerely claim non-fascist ?

Dear Sitaram Yechuriji, 

Warm Greetings from ' conscience of the society', the independent philosophy and polity research ( non-profit sector) initiative !

Your article referred above in HT was very informative. You plainly claimed, it was Russia that formally, or at least symbolically liberated the war-torn colonial world from the fascist forces. But the ultimate question is, could Russia, or communism was able to liberate modern world, at least theoretically, from every futuristic fascist tendencies and ideology ? 

Can any open-minded person deny that it is the communist regimes that today fits the bill of 'fascist' than that of any other political system, if fascism is about conservatism and non-receptive to changes ? When they wanted to liberate the world from right-wing conservatism, the method that they had, or what they had adopted and put-into actual practice was only the same conservatism about NOT letting the citizens' class FREE to fend for their-own lives ! For not letting the citizenry go the same,sinful right-wing ways, they adopted more severe steps to curtail the freedom of man ! It is plain history, visible even today as best examples in existing communist regimes.  

A more serious concern was the similar, or worse definition of human-freedom that the other camp gave, and had adopted to run the rest of the world; with the so called 'free-market' ideology. This camp took the free-entrepreneur as the model citizen, and thought, un-interfering in his free-pursuit of happiness and self-prosperity would ensure general freedom in society. The severe entanglement of citizen's freedom today, due to the unplugged growth and prosperity of entrepreneurs in the world, is well exemplified in the slogan of USA's 'occupy'( wall-street, and other places) agitators: 

' modern-world is ruled by 1% elites, while the rest 99% are replica of the old world's  meek 'subjects' ! 

The worst part of the tragedy with human-freedom was the coronation of 'democracy' as the symbol of human-freedom, and the ultimate political system of 'equal-men'. Its most-unfortunate feature was the partnering with the said 1%,  for 'development' of the respective nations ! 

The primeval concepts and myths around the 'establishment', the institution of 'RULING' the class of people and country, has not at all altered in any considerable degree, despite its changing the hands of control from the old, tribal-head cum religious masters to the later day Kings and emperors, then to to warrior-leader and tyrants, to the Feudal-Lords, and now to the hands of peoples' democratic representatives. Can a sharp-sword alter its base properties when it changes hands ? Almost every declared and implicit role of the 'establishment' remain more or less same, irrespective of the 'throne' occupied by different 'class' of rulers ! Institutionalized POWER associated with the throne was the worst feature that always blocked freedom for citizens because, freedom was always antagonistic to power.

The case of modern democracy stands-out as the most self-deceptive of all other models; though in paper it claims as the ultimate political system of people, in reality, it uses its false reputation and halo of freedom to unleash the worst kind of suppression of dissent and criticism in history. In earlier systems, the oppressed had some knowledge as to whose feet he should fall to save his life,honour and property. But in modern democracy, no one clearly knows who his oppressor is ! 

Democracy has become an open but fierce war to take-over the control of the old model of power-regimes, still as powerful as before, coveted,dream-like, and the most appealing pinnacle that every human-being would die to try a hand to grab it !

So, the task of reinventing modern democracy is nothing but reinventing the very meaning and scope of plain human-freedom, a life-altering task. 

Wrong notion of acquiring freedom through sharing power and authority

Throughout human saga, whenever a group or class sought or acquired  freedom from the ones in higher authority, it was by a group or class who themselves badly wanted freedom, in order to be the 'rulers', or the masters in society themselves !

 Freedom was something unthinkable and inconceivable without the seekers of it being at the seats of the ruling class. A system of 'sharing' freedom with others, thus ensuring its equal fruits equally enjoyed by one and all, was never known in any human society, except probably in some isolated tribal groups ! To be free was possible only when things were under one's own control, or one's own group's control.  The most conspicuous negative example was that of the communist regimes. 

The moment they ousted the traditional ruler from his seat, the proletariat class took over the reigns from him, and ruled people and the country the same way that their ousted oppressor had been doing it ! He had no other known and established model of ruling nations and people than the one and only POWER-STATE model. Thomas Hob's old adage about human life and man's nature ( 'short, nasty and brutish') could not yet be replaced with any other healthier and positive image about him. So, the ways and principles of 'ruling' him also couldn't be changed in all these years.

Therefore, whosoever sought or snatched freedom in history, when encountered with the task of ruling people and the country themselves, had always went for the conservative way of their one-time oppressors. 

The way of letting the other be free in every respect,so that he too learn its advantage, and the same way of letting all others free for the general freedom in the society, is a not yet tried and tested way of collective existence. First chance of testing this historic task had landed in the hands of the communists, but the entire world now know how thoroughly they mishandled this opportunity, and stagnated human-progress for centuries !

Americans too attempted it in an unprecedented way, and almost run the country in a true democratic way for about the initial 150 years, before the onslaught of capitalism set-in. (Kindly read about this lost opportunity of USA at link: http://lostchanceofusaforsettingexample.blogspot.in/)

Even now, the best contestants to undertake this role lies with the communists, but due their being remaining as fascist as the traditional right-wing, modern world stares at her future with much anxiety and worry, as to who is there to usher real days of pure and uninhibited human freedom and individual dignity for men and women, to lead their lives naturally. 

This highly noble task requires an absence of all institutionalized or professional RULING class; every truly free human-being possess a natural predisposition to recognize and groom the 'sacred-realm of the collective', and manage it in a natural way. The way one has a natural propensity to manage his/her own life, every man  has a natural propensity to mange his collective affairs too naturally, in complete rational agreement with all others to conduct this task. So, the one and only task before human-kind is to have his existing democratic model 'reinvented' in such a way that it results in redefining the very concept of human-freedom afresh.

We appeal you you to share our philosophic blog-post " what true democracy must represent to people', at link: http://anewtheoryondemocraticestablishment.blogspot.in/

Regarding true freedom, attainable by letting the 'other' be free first, please refer our dedicated blog-posts: http://understandinginflationinanewlight.blogspot.in/ and 

http://newphilosophyoflife.blogspot.in/

warm regards,

Abraham J. Palakudy

Founder

www.conscienceofthesociety.com

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