THE IRONIES OF AN ABSOLUTE SYSTEM

The foundations of the world has been built on systems that make it up or make it work. As the world and man evolved, man has continually set up systems he feels would bring orderliness and meaning to life. There are the educational system, health, political, economic just to mention a few. My focus would be on the economic and political system and their ironies.

In the past, it was much more easier to separate the economic from the political system, but today, it has become almost impossible to do that. Political and economic systems are now interwoven that the economy adopted determines the politics and vice-versa. From the feudalism of the middle ages to the capitalism of the 21st century, history has shown that an absolute system only leads to anarchy and chaos.

Past political and economic leaders have learned the hard way in the inexperience and folly of entrenching or trying to entrench an absolute system. An absolute system is the idea that a particular system is enough on it's own to satisfy the economic and political wants of the people without external influence, no matter how little.

This means that a people would believe that capitalism alone is enough or that democracy alone is enough to have a sane system. A system could have general features or characteristics, but no nation can claim to practise it the way it ought to be. Wiser leaders understand that when a system like capitalism is the constitutional economic system in a country, it only means that capitalism is only about 70% feasible while other systems are entrenched inside that capitalism.

A country like the USA is a perfect example. For a capitalist nation, it would be assumed that the idea of social security or Obamacare wouldn't be adopted. Social security and Obamacare are ideas entrenched in communism. This means that all capitalism and no communism will lead to revolution, and all communism and no capitalism will lead to anarchy.

Socialist China is another example. It only means that China is socialist most of the time, and capitalist more of the times. Freedom of religion and association are not core socialist values, but that is what happens in China. China operates a strong free market, and that is why their products find their way to many parts of the world. And we should not fail to realize that a free market is a core socialist evil.

Democracy is supposed to be a political system that should abhor every form of absolute or dictatorial powers, but the executive orders of a president are his absolute powers. Executive orders are usually the way of absolute or military dictatorships. This means that all democracy and no dictatorship will lead to disaster.

An absolute dictatorship like Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Idi Amin, with no democracy will lead to revolution. Every system abhors an absolute stance, and no absolute system can hope to survive long to be generally acceptable by the world. This is why absolute communism, feudalism, nazism, facism and military dictatorships all crash by themselves.

These are the ironies of an absolute system that will always make it a system for an immature era and inexperienced people. If you have enjoyed this post, please share. Thanks.