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by Abraham J. Palakudy (Author)
This is part-2 of our book series 'Is modern-democracy a fake-coin?'. Part-1 is already available at Amazon.com stores. This part-2 has eleven articles, each one handling a unique negative feature of modern world, seeking remedy through a 'reinvented democracy'. The only remedy is a 'reinvented democracy' because, world today is at its contemporary stage of progress, chiefly due to its all controlling political institution, ie. democracy. Polity is what give birth, define and control every other institution and its values and directions in modern society. Therefore, a new world-order, with genuine freedom to every man on the street, would be possible by thoroughly redefining and reinventing our leading political system- democracy. Bringing out of this book that delve deeply into various not yet noticed and recognized, philosophical and psychological aspects of modern world was so necessary because, there exists a general impression in the mainstream that, contemporary world is an absolutely free, liberal, open and progressive place ! Our age can see the deeper discords over the surface glitter and glory only when it come face to face with the deeper, almost hidden facts presented in the book. As the preface of the book has a description about each article, this description does not attempt to reveal much on the content. But, modern democratic states are shown at par with the totalitarian regimes in modern world, in the matter of the common 'fuel' both parties use in governance, ie. POWER ! Hence, while the openly declared 'closed' regimes such as that of the communists, autocrats and Kings suppress freedom and liberty openly, democratic regimes pretend to be 'free' and open, but at the citizens real 'experience' level, there is not much difference between his level of freedom with that of his counterpart at the other-side of the wall ! This is the gravest tragedy that this book attempts to expose. The last article has attempted to visualize and define what a true democracy must represent to people, freeing itself from its present symbolic and technical aspects, while giving centrality to its 'value' aspects. Today, democracy's value core has no takers, as such value core exactly tally with the spirit and values of the erstwhile European Enlightenment.
Author Biography
He is founder of the philosophical non-profit organization called 'CONSCIENCE OF THE SOCIETY'-that stands for philosophical initiatives into Human faculty of Reason, Fraternity and Reinvented democracy. He is post-graduate in Sociology from Kota Open university, after his Bachelor of Commerce degree ( B.Com) from Kerala University in India. He developed intense interest for deep studies about Mind during his college days. So, he studies Hypnosis, and then conducted scores of successful experiments. His close encounter with many Clairvoyance enabled Hypnosis subjects compelled to continue to independent studies and research in formal philosophy and metaphysics. He was awarded a residential Fellowship by Indian Council of Philosophical Research ( govt. of India body) during 1990. His book titled 'Is reason a sense organ? A super-mind above the known mind' was published at Amazon.com in 2012, at link: http: //www.amazon.com/dp/B008NOEE9I, and another book ' Is modern democracy a fake coin?' at link: http: //www.amazon.com/dp/B008NNPG32 His research paper on 'DEMOCRATIC CULTURE' was peer-reviewed and accepted for presentation by International Society for Universal Dialogue', Athens, Greece during 2012, and paper ' Scientific explanation of reality ' was accepted for the 10th Congress ( Romania) of the same organization (ISUD ) in 2014. He was invited to Olympia to present this paper, and he attended the Olympian Congress, but he could not attend the Romanian Congress in 2014 due to personal reasons. 'World Philosophy Forum' named him an 'active thinker' at link: http: //www.wpf-unesco.org/eng/acthk.htm, and also appointed him as the Asian head of its activities in New Delhi. His research paper on 'police and human rights' was chosen for presentation in 2013 by Kalyani University, West Bengal, India. A similar paper on 'Indian Heritage' was chosen by M.S.University, Baroda (Gujarat, India) in January, 2014, for presentation during the 'National Education Summit' at Gandhinagar.
