Direct or Representative Democracy?
Resentment
Busloads of fat rich tourists
Unload and unload
In an endless stream,
In the land of
Poverty and dust,
Where each penny
Is precious.
In the land of minarets
And prayers
Where faith
Is the only hope
They have to believe.
But these tourists
Have no faith
And little hope
But plenty of pennies.
So they are catered for
And their every whim
Is addressed –
At a price.
Perhaps the price
Is resentment.
Opher 20.3.2019
While tourism is greatly needed as a source of income for people who have so little, it is not a something that is always an easy relationship.
Bringing rich foreigners, with all their hedonistic values, in contact with a poor populace who have a prescribed religious lifestyle is bound to create friction.
Sometimes the resentment is obvious.
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I’m not elitist. I just know that some things are much too complex for non-experts to deal with. I want my nuclear plants run by people who know what they are doing. If I get a brain tumour I want to be operated on by a fully qualified and experienced brain surgeon not somebody off the street.
Something of the complexity of leaving the EU is at least at that level of complexity. It requires proper detailed deliberation by people who have studied all the details not an arbitrary emotional response by people who do not understand the first thing about it.
Direct democracy is very flawed. You are giving equal weight to the stupid and uniformed as to the intelligent and informed.
Representative democracy is not quite so bad. We elect representatives who largely reflect our views who are supposedly intelligent and have the task, time and expert advice to enable them to make informed decisions on our behalf.
I am sceptical of representative democracy too. We often elect people of dubious intelligence and people who have sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies. I’ve never yet found a politician that represents all my opinions and views. It’s a compromise.
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