Thursday, October 13, 2005
~ 1:03 PM ~
Long had it been since the theocratic rule of the states began. With it came the semi-democratic Council, which, at the highest level, had to heed the theocracy's 'advice'. As election of this representative became more skewed towards celebrities, people are more aware of the stand of the Council as a whole.
New born was the state of Meridian, and so were the people, and their Council. It was a perilous era, with many drastic changes in the progress of the states. Yet it survived.
Contradictory to the common belief of many outsiders, the council was not always having a good time serving their term for the people. For the people had rejected their leaders, after no more than a year they voted. What a laugh it is to many, to see the ultimate irony of democracy. And a cruel joke it is, to the once popular leaders.
At the beginning, the naïve citizens expressed their suffrage with such fervour; their votes went to the popular. What they saw in the candidates I did not, for I only observed the performance of well-trained prime apes. Entertained I was, to see how serious both the actors and audience was. Finally, the climax came - the voting.
However, all these had ended. The victors of the play rose to be the rulers. I cannot deny that after the play, actors actually have the capacity to learn the way of the rulers. In the pre-Republic times, the members of the Council were merely administrative officers under the absolute rule of the Priests and Priestesses. As the middlemen between the brain and the limbs, they had been trying to do their job well. And well they had done, at least from my point of view.
Yet the naïve voters do not coincide with my view. The people wanted all decisions to be directly beneficial to them, as short-sighted as it may seem, and could not tolerate anything otherwise. Problems arose when decisions came from the priests and priestesses of Moe. Many of these were for the good of the people, yet were not exactly pleasing in the ears. Thus the people blame the chosen, without realizing that the freedom to choose did not lie with councilors. I do not find fault in the middlemen, but the pathetic stupidity and auto-centric nature of the citizens. The lack of maturity is the only cause of their suffering. Despise not the failure of our past administration, my dear friends, but the failure of education as a whole.
---"The true nature of the Council in pre-Republic Era - Report to the Interstate Heritage Council", Prof. Hephaestus
