Electing leaders who will organize society will not make people better

Short case for limited politics and more spontaneous society

Politics make us worse. No, electing people who will organize society will not make people better. They will become worse. At least on large scale. There’s nothing like politics that is dividing people. It encourages anger and hatred. In fact, political groups have the same backgrounds like racism, sexism, etc.

How’s that? Well first, politics are encouraging prejudgment of people around us. We start to look at people through political lens: As some collective beings with same characteristics, similar to how racism is forming classifications. This is a threat to mental system. After we construct political beliefs, we want whole groups of people to approve our whole sets of ethical, economical, etc. attitudes by constructing political polices which are based on those sets. This isn’t anything new, it has been out through out the 2000 years of history.

As we think that policies will greatly impact our lives, we become more caring of the outcomes that political leaders will produce and start to fanatically oppose, and consequently hate the other side. We know that one group will have “authority” over other group. It makes us frustrated even to think that other group will “win”.

This comes from the false premise — that people need to be fully organized by “authority” in order to function.

Societies with less politics are happier, wealthier and with more justice. Just look at Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore. They are heavily relying on private individuals and their voluntary collaborations. The problem in Western societies is that people are scared of freedom. They don’t don’t look freedom as natural state — rather something that is given.

Consider this: You are supporting certain policies which political leader will apply to other citizens through force. If they don’t obey the policies you voted for, government will come and put the gun at their heads.

Would you go at somebody’s house and put a gun at their face to apply your policies?

I hope not. At least, it is completely immoral. You don’t own their lives.

We should encourage minimum politics — the basic individual rights that people need in order to flourish as well to encourage private individuals to make experiments when it comes to collaboration and causes they care for. For an example, government shouldn’t be able to “give rights” to make a gay marriage — gay marriage should be completely legal without government permission. It’s a basic human right. Yet I really don’t understand why people think that the answer to causes they care is to bring more politics. It’s a contradiction. That’s why they are struggling for their basic rights.

Politics really shouldn’t be an important thing. Private individuals should be fully responsible for their actions. Because at the end, politicians are not responsible for their actions. When politician makes a mistake, whole society is collectively wrong. We fly to the space, make hoverboards, assistant robots, virtual reality, etc. yet we are still stuck in 2000 year old view on the politics: That authority should organize people’s lives.