I am interested in lot of fantasy novels and recently i have developed interests in reading ancient life-style. As and when I read about it i used to visualize it in my mind and will literally live in that period. Under these situations I used to compare the life-style in present and how it is in past. I have heard that before British people invaded us we were wealthy with lot of natural resources and i even heard that there times where it is not possible to see beggers over here but now, they are everywhere.
Ever since I heard about it, I was even more curious to learn more about our ancient life-style. The one difference which attracted my attention was, In history we were ruled by kings and in present we are ruled by ministers. Literally speaking the current kingdom (Actually I have to use government when i refer to present but, let us use the word kingdom as i feel that it suits more apt to what i am about to say) is formed by democracy and it is people who elects the person to rule them. Ideally speaking this should be the golden age for people rather than the ancient periods. That too with lot of new inventions and technologies it is best suited as the golden age of people. But, are we seriously considering the present as our golden period ??. Are people really happy in the present kingdom ??
I believe the full essence of democracy will be tasted if we receive the answer as "yes" from major part of the people to the above questions. one can normally ask that the kingdom is formed by the people and they have the right to decide who to rule them so obviously they will be happy in current kingdom. yet i believe that the answer to the above questions would be "no" from majority of the people. This made me think a little bit that what exactly does these people wanted ? They are not happy with the person whom they have elected as their rulers. After a lot of thinking I searched the answer in history. As always history teaches a lot, its only us who fail to learn from it.
There were powerful kings in history some were good and some were cruel. But still I believe that people were happy when they are ruled under them. so one can ask how can a person be happy under a cruel king. yes comparatively people were happy under the ancient kingdom than the present. While thinking more of it. I just started realizing that in ancient periods the kings were boldly making decisions and were executing it. They built dams, harvested crops and built temples and did all in their power to make the life happy in their kingdom. There were charity under the kings, there were justice under them and most of all people were courageous their prowess were still appreciated.
people fought when they need to, they budged when it is needed and they struggled in bad times yet they were guarded by the kings. People understood exactly the nature of the king under whom they are sheltered and acted accordingly so they flourished along with the king. But now since people took the decision of whom to rule they were not able to decide on whom to give power and since it is people who have to decide whom to rule them most of the times there were equal support for the oppositions and they fail to obey the elected rulers. They fought with the kingdom unnecessarily just because they were not given the power to rule. They blocked the good projects brought up by the ruler as a result, they failed to protect justice and common people started to use these loopholes inside the justice to escape from the punishment.
They elongated the time for justice in the name of investigation. There were many judges as a result people elongated the justice period still more. As a result the crime in the country increased and people lost hope for justice and in the end they were hiding from these wrong doers and the rulers were supporting them instead of controlling. These were not the case in ancient periods. The king was not afraid about loosing power and boldly doing anything which he thought as good. There were ministers in ancient period but they were only giving suggestions to king and ultimately the decision making power was with the king.
People were no longer courageous they were restricted in the name of peaceful life. The punishments were reduced in the name of human rights. People were often forgiven and wrong doers go public and the kingdom protects them for investigation. They are afraid to make decisions boldly
Cant stop wondering how it would be when we have the current technology and ancient kingdoms.
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