A Tale of Two Apathies?

Crinkly is suffering from the resource curse. It's an honourable state of mind brought on by bewilderment fatigue at the chasms accepted as norms within societies, as opposed to those expected as acceptable norms by individuals. Basically governments have demands and decrees while individuals have wants and expectations; and, due to the imbalance of power between the two, normally it's the individual who loses out.

Perhaps it's that 'imbalance' that needs levelling out - and here I offer an observation which could be classed as verging on the optimistic. Every reference source referred to by Crinkly would be covered by a 2,ooo year time span. Not a huge wedge from the flux of civilisation let alone evolution and when you consider there's less than a hundred years since every strata of society in the UK was franchised with the 'right' to vote, is it possible that we're expecting too much too soon, or does the burden of integrity and its deficits rest with our governors for abetting but not aiding the development of the democratic process? 

If we consider the last sixty years of democracy in Britain we have in the first thirty years the consolidation of the welfare state and the NHS etc, but for the next thirty years nothing. Not one progressive move to enhance democracy, but many to limit, divert or diminish its values. In fact democracy Westminster style is slowly being suffocated into fascism, where the electorate is granted a limited right within an inequitable system to elect a dictatorship. It's the only conclusion you can come to when thirty years of governance under our governors rules has failed to improve the lot of common man. But perhaps that thirty years of spin covering inertia has developed an energy they can no longer submerge with their arrogant apathy.

Which is why the quality of democracy we enjoy in this country comes down to the stronger of two apathy's. The apathy of those who believe they wield power by some circumstance of right, or the apathy of us, the governed, to allow them the belief of that right.

Belief they say is the final doubt to dispel. And, while in the recent past belief may have been a legitimate factor in the politics of democracy it cannot be now. Now it has to be a command democracy earned by the strength of our demands.