{"id":16460,"date":"2022-06-13T05:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/when-democracy-becomes-mobocracy"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T07:00:11","slug":"when-democracy-becomes-mobocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/when-democracy-becomes-mobocracy","title":{"rendered":"When democracy becomes mobocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>The answer: meritocracy \u2013 Osho<\/b>
\nDemocracy has become mobocracy, claims Osho, the enlightened mystic. As India celebrates the 70th anniversary of independence on 15 August, it is a tantalizing issue worth examining.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have at the moment is mobocracy,\u201d says Osho, \u201cIt is certainly not democracy.<\/p>\n

It is all right for the people to choose their representatives for the parliament, but it should be the clearly defined task of the majority party in parliament to find the best men of merit to administer the various divisions and functions of the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have to see to it that the selected ministers are fully qualified for their different jobs. Then we will have meritocracy in the place of the mobocracy that we have. Unless democracy is wedded to meritocracy, it will remain a tool in the hands of the ignorant and stupid people.<\/p>\n

And unless democracy is allied with meritocracy, democracy will continue to be the instrument of man\u2019s downfall and degradation; it can never be the instrument of his uplifting and glory.<\/p>\n

What does Osho mean by \u2018fully qualified ministers\u2019? They should all be professionals, highly qualified and experienced specialists and experts in different fields of government \u2013 like education, health, finance and the rest \u2013 and form the council of ministers with them, he advocates.<\/p>\n

In reality, ministers are appointed on political grounds to represent all states, communities and vested interests. Even the upper house of parliament designed to add professional expertise, special talent and wisdom is also selected on the very same basis, except for a handful of members from sports and the arts.<\/p>\n

In addition to discoursing on leading spiritual masters and almost every spiritual path to enlightenment, Osho has talked extensively on politics and social issues.<\/p>\n

During the 60s and 70s, he delivered over a dozen lecture series on politics that were also published in the form of books. The titles of these books in Hindi are the best indication of his grasp of political and social realities that are even more relevant today.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bharat key Jalte Prashan\u2019 or Burning Questions of India dealing with corruption, population and communal violence among others.<\/p>\n

\u2018Bharat ka Bhavish\u2019 or Future of India, \u2018Naye Bharat ki Khoj\u2019 or Search for New India, \u2018Naye Samaj ki Khoj\u2019 or Search for New Society and \u2018Naye Bharat ka Janam\u2019 or Birth of New India; all focused on what India can become.<\/p>\n

His devastating attack on the sham values of society and politics came in \u2018Pandit, Purohit aur Rajneta: Manav Atma ka Shoshak\u2019 or Pundit, Priest and Politician: Mafia of the Soul.<\/p>\n

Socialism was in the news in those days and so Osho provided his insight with \u2018Samajvad Arthat Atamhatya\u2019 or Socialism is Suicide and \u2018Samajvad se Saivdhaan\u2019 or Beware of Socialism.<\/p>\n

Osho\u2019s discourses and book, \u2018Bharat Gandhi aur Main\u2019 or India, Gandhi and I dissected the contribution and persona of the father of the Indian nation with startling views about his personal behaviour which shocked many Gandhi admirers.<\/p>\n

But Osho was vindicated with a Bollywood movie, \u2018Gandhi My Father\u2019 in 2007 which dared to present these unsavoury truths. Osho\u2019s tour de force happened in 1985 with a front-page coverage headed \u2018If I Ran India\u2019 in the Illustrated Weekly of India, the top magazine of that time.<\/p>\n

Stretching over 15 pages, his sensational insights on politics, governance, corruption, communal violence, population, education and related topics stunned and shook readers across the sub-continent.<\/p>\n

These insights have stood the test of time and are equally relevant today, over thirty years down the line. Asked about leaders, Osho says, \u201cA leader is a political phenomenon, and all politicians \u2014 without any exception \u2014 suffer from an inferiority complex.<\/p>\n

And the people who suffer from an inferiority complex are bound to get into politics, into leadership, so that they can prove to themselves and to the world that they are not inferior, they are superior.<\/p>\n

\u201d On corruption, Osho says, \u201cMan will remain corrupted till we stop interfering with his nature. Corruption is a by-product. If somebody somewhere is corrupted, that means his nature has been interfered with. And you will never be able to find the real culprit; you will catch hold of this poor man who is a victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn your courts, the people who are being judged and sentenced, imprisoned, or even sentenced to death are not the real culprits, they are victims \u2013 victims of a society which has forced them to move in a certain way, to become a certain way which they never wanted.<\/p>\n

They were always resisting. Every child resists as much as he can, but he has limitations; he cannot resist too long. And he is dependent on you,\u201d Osho says in From Misery to Enlightenment, Ch 26. No matter what the topic, Osho never fails to shock and awe.<\/p>\n

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