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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Democracy lack of intelligence?

    The general opinion about the state of democracy is that this is the best form of government in human history because the opinion of majority is satisfied.I will give the same example as in the post "The power poll".In a presidential campaign there are a few candidates mostly from different parties.There are two rounds.In first round,people have more options so you have more chances to vote the contender of your soul.
  But if the elections would remain in this stage,a lot of people would be unsatisfied because the winner from the first place cannot easy gain 50%.So there the second round,which divides people between two options,the republicans/democrats for example.Until here all is good,this is green card for democracy..Also comparing with communism,where one men decided everything,here are a few man and devices,like The court,The Parliament/The Congress,some chambers and many organizations in every domain and minister.
   But if we look further,49% are controled by 51%.And it is possible that 51% to be wrong.It is possible even for 99% to be wrong,if people don't have the eye of eagle of what's happening around.
      For example Hitler was a product of democracy,in 1932 he won the elections with over 30%.This system is vulnerable by the manipulation,people can be forced to decide between two bad contenders,the least bad.
Also,the funding campaign can put in difficulty some of them which don't have such good sponsors,but have a better plan and are faithful to their cause but don't have billions of dollars to spent on publicity,TV shows,banners and parades /authorizations in public space.And more than that ,you have as a winner/loser in the campaign some obligations to the sponsors,you must protect them and even some illegalities because otherwise you'll be no more supported,neither you,nor the party you come from.
           Finally from the perspective of the human being,it is a matter of choice between a few options which divides the mind,but the mind doesn't participate with something new in the national events.It is overestimated the power the vote,because anybody can have a choice but only few can have influence and a word to say.

The power of poll

Nowadays polls are very common,everyone talks about them,and guides their opinion after them.The disadvantages are more or less subtle.For example there are made on a sample of a few thousand people which gives a good probability but mostly not exactly.For example,in politics,in the eve of elections,there are shown some contenders,from the main factions/political party,which indirectly promotes them in front of surprising/new contenders,and gives more chances to a bunch of people.Another con' would be that an opinion cannot be expressed in a choice/other and a few choices cannot cover the whole spectrum of opinions and the only option you can take in this case(of course in case you respond to the poll)is to choose others,etc.
      Also it gives a psychological meaning,because people seeing an example get more confidence in the first one/two options of the poll,or at least that's the tendency.For example,when choosing a bank/web hosting site and see a poll about which one is most profitable,and you see that X/Y is the first option in eyes of 30-40%,you might ask why is that?So the message transmitted to the brain is that there must be a reason for that Coke is better than Pepsi or porsche is better than cadillac in the eye of wealthy men.
           Finally,but not lastly,the poll is a way of indirect promoting,and the suspicion is more reasoned if these polls are commanded by some company,or house institutes.
In the campaign of elections,in my country,Romania,the poll is like a compass for the citizens,so it approaches to a manipulation device,the unprofessionalism at its climax.

Poll is related to democracy!But democracy is more powerful,it decides even the destiny of a nation.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

The original sin and the two hemispheres of the brain

We all know the biblical story from Genesis,where Adam and eve were thrown away from the paradise because they ate from the forbidden fruit,from the tree of knowledge of good and bad.
The author,Moses couldn't explain better than in a story like this the first sin,but now the modern people understand(or should understand) that the tree means much more than a tree,it's a symbol,the first abstractization we remark at ancient people.
We know that the mind of primitive people was as the people,they didn't have any thoughts,because immediately after evolving from monkeys they wouldn't have what to think about.There weren't any concepts of family,feelings,not to mention about any code/rules.
But thinking retrospective,we may assume that man was the weakest being from that jungle(or Garden of Eden as it's wrotten).So a transformation was compulsory in their brains,that was the thing that has changed,they started thinking,how to build weapons,they discovered fire,and they were caught by this virus of domination and they got the idea that harmony was hard to maintain and it would have been better if they had full control.Could this be a sin in god's point of view?Ask god,not me!
Anyway,the holy bible says that Adam and Eve were naked,and they were not ashame.But after the serpent deceived Eve to eat the fruit,and gave also to Adam,they've both become ashamed.Why?If they were the first people on earth,or at least in the earth mentioned by Moses,who could have seen them ?They hid from God among the trees,so the nakedness means that they were pure,without any conditioning.They were innocent people,but they become dirty by knowing that beyond their innocence there is knowledge they couldn't access,yet.So for the first their mind was tricky.They haven't listened to their heart,they became unaware of the beauty of life(who wouldn't feel free in jungle,when you subdue all the nature).In my opinion,the subduing became possesion,this was the originary sin.
God isn't an authority like all the christianity tells us,they weren't unruly in the common sense,but they cheated,life lost the charm after that.
In the modern sense of psychology,they became technique,they were the first people to work hard to live,because they didn't enjoy the company of paradise,they used for the first time left brain,which is said to be scientific,it's mathematical,logic;maybe they didn't know the first thesis of Aristotel or Pythagora's theorem,but they become skilled workers.They lost their faith in something above them,and lost the initial revelation,which grow in the right side of the brain.
So,we can define psychologically that the originar sin was a transfer from the intuitive and connected to God right brain,to the left side,and that had huge consequences over humanity.
There remains infinitely unanswered questions and I've opened also infinitely other questions,which is truly delightful.