“Great minds cannot be produced in any country when its test depends on agreeing with small minds.”
–– John Stuart Mill, British philosopher
WHAT if a people-centric new world order has begun that’s not openly reported or spoken about? The new society’s leitmotif: “Change your thoughts and you change your world,” courtesy Norman Vincent Peale.
A credible, visible and audible society has begun implementing change by hitting hard and hitting smart at decaying government. “Change is the end result of all true learning,” rings alarmingly true according to Leo Buscaglia.
This replace government movement has been employing and deploying a cancel culture to deceptive politics. The first obvious salvo: boycotting and renouncing the necrose “education system”.
Police power solely answerable to the people is ably and admirably led by a special cadre of leaders applying the most pragmatic materials and measures gleaned from political science, law and economics.
Millions of young, trained, educated and dedicated warriors of social justice have overcome dirty politics. The tried and tested tenets of demeaning and deteriorating democracy have dissipated.
What if the total governance of the day is no longer guided by an Executive-driven written constitution suffering from acute malnutrition and malnourishment. A balanced diet of human rights is in force.
Every community selects and elects five highly educated individuals to represent them in the Supreme Peoples’ Forum that functions as the three organs of government. Money politics is only mentioned in the new history books.
An isocracy – a form of government where all individuals have equal political power – has begun with a fully animated written constitution not viewed as a speedbump. No more constitutional grey zones.
Morally urgent issues are prioritised. Executive arrogance is gone as is the public intoxication of political mantras and slogans. Constitutional trapezes entertaining jurisprudential acrobatics is a citation in the new history books.
This new society has rewritten the laws and constitutions shoved into our political psyches by outsiders. They have also successfully launched programs to impose Eastern values upon imported values.
The constitutional promise of freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and expression spells freedom of choice. Discipline and integrity have replaced challenges and complexities.
Freedom of choice is the blueprint governing race, religion and region that is ably and amply destroying malicious mischiefs. Public hangings for convicted bribe-givers and bribe-takers are also mentioned in the new history books.
The nuances, noises and nuisances of putrefied politics will be included in the syllabus of the new education models. The ethos is to keep society well-enlightened and well-educated.
Taxation is abolished – legalised misappropriation of private property with financial threats – allowing for greater consumer spending power. The economy booms. Money is determined by the strength of the medium of exchange using symbols of wealth.
Old school politics died when it developed a mortal fear for this evolutionary society that sent shockwaves in its drive to discover and conquer lies, deceptions, and gutter politics.
Terrorise the terrorists; pulverise the politicians; hang the hooligans; crucify the crooks; and defang the Deep State. Meliorism (a belief that the world can be a better place by human effort) is the new national anthem.
This society attracts parrhesiasts (people who practise or engage in frank and courageous act of speaking the truth even if it’s unpopular and risky). Open discussion and debate become the order of the days.
This society attracts philomaths (lovers of learning who are purely knowledge seekers). These are the individuals who develop the ubermensch in us – the Overman, not the Superman.
The dark and uncertain days of pathocracy (a system of government dominated by people with personality disorders) are gone for good. How voters survived that pestilence for hundreds of years is PhD thesis material.
This awakened society enjoys the absence of elections and money politics. The community selects and elects its team of leaders who will manage the affairs of society in the Supreme Peoples’ Forum. The intellectually gifted get uplifted.
A society enjoying metanoia (a journey of changing one’s mind, self and heart or way of life thought spiritual conversion) perpetrates and perpetuates total social justice.
The teaching of avoiding and discouraging agathokakological (existence of good and evil at the same time) natures is in full swing for morality to claim higher ground.
Knowledge engineering is a daily routine through educational disciplines designed and dedicated to opening students’ minds. Meritocracy has become the coin of the realm. Excellence is the national ethos.
This evolved society inculcates the spirit of atychiphobia (fear of failure) in the youth as an impeller to bring out the best in the future leaders of society? A welcome phobia for sure.
This new society has successfully built the ark of permanent safety and security to prevent political cataclysmic storms. Society has evolved as a natural phenomenon. Every preventive measure is deployed.
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes,” remarked von Goethe. Living with change and reform is inevitable. Moth-eaten politics and policies are gone.
The Einsteinian postulate that “intellectuals solve problems while geniuses prevent them”, is the new governance policy guided and guarded by a specially selected cadre of professionals.
The conscience of this new world order will promote, propagate and preserve society’s conscience through discipline and integrity. It’s not a utopian dream at all.
It can happen if people wake up, stand up to speak up for a radically evolving society.
The views expressed here are those of the columnist and do not necessarily represent the views of Sarawak Tribune. The writer can be reached at chiefjudge@secamtektektribe.org.