A major(ity) problem.

I have a problem with democracy. Not the idea of it, which is not terrible, but the power of the majority in any cause.

Looking around the world, the majority in any cross section of humans are underachievers. The majority of athletes running in a race are losers, the majority of workers in a company are not geniuses, and the majority of us do not achieve anything great in our lifetimes. Ergo, if you belong in the majority, you are probably mediocre.

So, why does the majority get to decide things in a democracy, unless this is a blatant attempt to keep out geniuses who are bound to be in the minority? This is the best way for a lot of people to have to listen to a small group of very intelligent people, and this is a great way for dumbasses to feel good about themselves, having won in numbers what they could never win in merit.

But, the leaders we elect are also in the minority! There are very few leaders to a very large group of people and those few leaders are supposed to effectively "represent" their collectives. I must say, at least in politics, they do, to a magnified level of inaction and ineptitude, not to mention abject incompetence in most cases.

It is strange that the majority by an overwhelming margin, once believed the earth was flat. The minority was proved right then, and more often than not, I worry about what the majority believes. Even God doesn't have much of a standing with the minority, since the majority have major investments in their beliefs in such an entity.

Why is it that cold rational thinking eludes the majority, and only the minority musters up the courage to go up that alley? Would it be wrong, fundamentally if there were more people who were agnostic or atheistic, and the minority believed in all kinds of Gods? But the flat earthers and the God believers both being overwhelming majorities, I wonder what would happen if it was conclusively proved that there is no God. The minority would go, "Aha, we told you so", and the rest of society would create mayhem, just because they hate to be wrong.

The majority was the reason slavery was legal in many parts of the world, and the majority is usually guilty of the most stupid courses of action that humanity has taken. It is not a matter of pride to belong to the majority in any collective, and a win by numbers can most of the time, only be a mandate that we love to belong to the group most likely to be the dumber of the two.

So, how did we manage to pull off this con on the minority? Truth is, we haven't. The minority most of the time has enough mental resources to think clearly, manage their way around the stupidity of the (m)asses, and they don't really care about having power of intelligent, rational thought over the majority. The minority watches with pleasure as the majority kills itself with its own stupidity.

The richest people in the world are a minority, the most successful people of the world are a minority, and it runs across the board, the ability to stand out and strike out on their own. It is very rare that people who simply do as others do climb out of the majority mass. It is always those who "do not belong" in the collective that get the opportunity to fly higher and on a different plane.

Now, imagine the competition we would have on our hands if the majority was capable of excellence, and only a few were falling behind. It would be unbearable, and we would quickly up our standards so only a few of us would continue to stand out. So, is that where the buck is - in the standards we set? Of course it is. The communities, the countries, the collectives that have prospered and improved their standards of living are those that took the examples of the minority and quickly applied them to the majority.

There are a few people in India who actually use dust bins, do not spit randomly, do not break rules, and do not cause chaos in everything they do. The majority does not even notice. They're too busy following other fools.

So can we apply that to political choices we make, and declare the BJP the more capable, intelligent party that has been denied the opportunity to excel by the majority? Most definitely not. The BJP succeeded in scaring the majority and created a mass fear of them. Fear of this nature spreads rapidly in the majority, since there are many carriers. Rational or not, fear has momentum, just like stupidity. So if you want to lose traction with the majority, cause them some fear.

The BJP should have kept it benign and comforting to the majority who wants to be in a slumber. Manmohan Singh is the more accommodating of a slumber compared to LK Advani. That guy might stir up something that we may have to really deal with. So, the majority chose the party that would give them the less to be bothered with. What a lovely thing this democracy is! And we have analysts for masturbating over thousands of details as if the majority really uses a fraction of human intelligence to make its choice!

The minority of humans actually produce, while the majority merely reproduces. The minority finds solutions, while the majority simply comes up with resolutions. The minority gets rich, while the majority gets to bitch.