Superstar politicians, do we need them?
Many dream to get a chance to be involved in politics and governance because important decisions are made about the public and they feel important as a public figure.
A small detail many seem to ignore today is that public figures in government positions are also called public servants. I believe this term was not chosen casually but fully depicts the purpose and mission of politics.
Looking at political parties today we see that they seem to represent the interests of large groups of people. The left seem to represent the "working class" while the right, we are told represents the "business".
The question we rarely ask ourselves is how true this really is? Many politicians historically and today have come to believe they are a privileged class, a "political class" that has the right to decides the destiny of the nation.
It seems they are divided between the power to spend the money we gather through our taxes /the national budget/ and the desire to serve the very people that pay their salaries and gave them the job.
Seen from this perspective the situation looks very ridiculous...
Imagine this was a company and the employees decided to be the special privileged class in dealing with the management.
Imagine this was a family and the management /the parents/ decided they will only provide services if children applied for them and will make them work and collect taxes from them then proudly decide the future of the house from a TV screen. Ridiculous, right?
Our current leadership paradigm is false, it seems.
A servant has no rights therefore can not be a privileged class and a public servant is one who serves the public and is provided only food and lodging.
In this upside down world the servants play the masters and those who pay taxes daily, struggling to make a living and employ the "political class" are placed in position of a Citizen Cinderella.
The deeper we search for meaning in this world the more we realize that a change is needed. A big one...
My proposal is to start by creating a public benefit index under which each public servant has to prove their usefulness every year and if the minimum criteria is not met should automatically be fired and when necessary prosecuted.
It should be scary to be public servant as the name implies and only those who provide most benefit to the taxpayer per $ spent should be allowed to serve the public.
I always wondered why I look for a deeper meaning to life and things comprising it.
Take alcohol for example. "Normal" people around me drink alcohol and seem to enjoy it. I on the other tried to avoid social exclusion by forcing myself to drink on a number of occasions always resulting in me feeling deeply disgusted. Not with myself, as some might expect, but with the alcohol drink.
See, I was raised in a family where drinking was not only a regular routine but my grandfather even took me as a child to help brew the rakia /high concentrated alcohol drink in Bulgaria/.
Every one was fascinated by the flavor, consistency and taste of the drinks produced, while I just could not get over it.
I have a very highly developed sense of smell and taste therefore everything I ever smelled or tasted was rotten fruits.
I thought I was the problem for a long, long time as I was the one that had to refuse the lovingly offered drinks for years and years and could never tell anyone my "secret".
As the years passed people got used to my strangeness but I could never get over the revolting feeling of smelling or tasting alcohol drinks.
Even today I often hear people talking about the exquisite taste of the variety of wines and how well they go with different dishes.
Despite the eloquence all I can smell and taste is rotten grapes or various types. The revolting smell is so deeply underlying all other sensations that I often wonder if people are so culturally blinded by cultural and peer pressure that they convince themselves that the grate variety of rotten fruit juice left to age is "so amazing"...
Call me stupid but I just can't force my senses to culinary appreciate and consume what is meant for de-greasing equipment or other industrial purposes.
If any of you look for deeper meaning of daily things we enjoy in life you might be surprised like I am... how strange our cultures actually are...
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