Reforming the Notion of Politics (Part II)

Freedom is controlled and provided a set of laws, regulations and standards to guarantee that it works properly. However, the question that should be addressed is, it works properly for whom? Only a minority may benefit and reap the rewards granted by the various political systems in place, currently. On the contrary, a political system is meant to serve all people’s interests and not just a select group. Ensuring that such a political system may truly achieve what it was designed to deliver, reorganizing the structure of political systems after reforming the political field is required. Reformation of the political field is incorporating the needs and wants of the new generations that may fit the dynamics of people's behaviours or thoughts in the Information Age. Political reformation, such as reconfiguring state functions or interpreting leadership roles or reigniting people's needed participation, are all key components of reforming politics as a tool for reconstructing a nation.

Politics of the Information Age is no longer about building a nation from scratch, as that would prove to be difficult. However, politics of the present must be an effective approach that renovates a nation and re-establishes its purpose, using the existing foundation. There must be no limitations to freedom, however, there must be a certain form of guidance towards exercising freedom. Political restrictions on freedom may be among the greatest causes for the abuse of freedom, initially. Restrictions for one group or segment of the population may appear to be liberating for another. Therefore, mediating between the various divisions of society, not for political ends but for fairer outcomes, is a necessity to deliver a more functional and balanced political community. In order to reach towards such a balance, the quality of thinking and the approach to thinking must be looked more closely upon. This links closely to the general mindset of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whom believed that, “A corrupt society produces citizens motivated by their particular selfish wills”. Some cultures discourage the idea of "thinking for yourself", as they bud in to do the "thinking for you". The sovereignty of a nation lies within their freedom of spirit, movement and reason. Governments or corporations have begun the process of limiting our freedom of thought, as another means of limiting our freedom of speech. This is closely related to what Benjamin Franklin believed to be a threat to democracies or free societies, when he declared, “Where there is no freedom of thought, then there may be no wisdom…And there may be no public liberty, if there is no freedom of speech”.

People are bombarded with an overflow of information that is not nourishing but rather corrupting the minds of the youth. We are meant to confront such deliberate act of suppression, by freeing our minds from the constraints of the media or pseudo knowledge that is being branded as genuine, trustworthy or viable. Governments are only as good or wicked as what their people allow them to be. If a society is prone to malicious behaviour and intolerable patience towards waiting out for the good times to ensue, then their representatives shall lead as per the traits of their people. Some nations justify dictatorships, as many of their people believe that they may not be led by democratic or liberal forms of governments, simply due to the stubbornness or rash norms exhibited by their people. This is bogus and should not be accepted or tolerated at any level. Governments are constructed to do what the people seem negligent about or inattentive towards. When governments begin to betray their initial cause or objectives during their preliminary phases, then they betray the true craft of politics. The people must then wake up to such betrayal and begin to take control over their own flocks and individual sovereignties, if they are to ever find peace.

Not everyone may be aware or able to make a difference but everyone is more than able to join a cause worthy enough of making a true difference. This starts from the manner in how the people think and what types of thinking gets projected to the tangible world. Many assume that we may know what one thinks, more or less, as it is usually reflected by their behaviour towards others and to themselves. However, that may not be so true, for not everything we think is applied, due to fear of some sort of backlash or unexpected consequences that may negatively affect an individual's position in life. Therefore, as we live in a time of default, people let go of thinking about serious matters beyond themselves and let others, like governments, organizations or corporations do the thinking for them. In other words, many governments of today no longer seek to force the individual to change their perception against their will. Governments have transformed our immediate environments to zones that break one's spirits and hinder one's potential to think rationally or creatively, to the extent that many just end up giving up. However, thinking of some sort still needs to commence. And so, governments, organizations or corporations gladly swindle such privilege to organize, determine and offer how and what the masses should think of. This form of politicizing tactics is not what politics is ought to be, yet, it is what politics has become.