Systemic suppression and a stable society

I am hearing news that the e-challan system for traffic offenders is discontinued. My gut reaction is that this public appeasement move has its root in election performance evaluation, but I personally read it as a disastrous one for the same objective.

Traffic is the most tangible part of how we experience our cities, so a decision that is surely going to cause chaos is likely to spread a sense of governance failure and the ruling party may fare lot worse in next election.

If we rise above local context, there is no doubt that every democratic government with central idea of offering indirect self-governance is expected to respond to public opinions. Feedback-based correction is process that should be improving systems over time.

While, in theory, a rollback-based democratic system shows potential to self-improve over time, the time has come to factor in a new development and understand that the same process, under a state of improved expression of personal opinions, could be completely counter-productive.

We need to cognise that much cherished concept of democracy is based on a false premise that people can respond to a system by understanding the greater-good dimension of rules of that form the system. But it is also …read more