Genghis Khan and Democracy
Nice chap, that Genghis. I just love his attitude. No flattering talk, no useless words, no debating and most importantly, no dilly-dallying. He just went ahead and did what needed to be done. So he was born at a time when might was right and he was very much at home in the surroundings he found himself in. A man of integrity and honour, his word was law.
We could have used him in this day and age when words mean so little, when a man swears he is telling the truth when he is not, when honour and integrity are mere words bandied about to further one’s self interest.
Democracy is the in thing nowadays. You just need to see the change sweeping the Middle East. My bone of contention is that some of the so called democratic leaders have been found to be so unabashed in their greed that they looted the very country and people they were elected to serve under the guise of democracy. Quite a few openly demanded a bribe or a cut from every deal that was struck in the country; be it a firm setting up data quality services or one setting up a billion dollar steel plant. My question is: are the so called democratic countries any better? Or, are they too being looted from the inside, while an outer veneer of democracy is pasted on. It could seem so from the skeletons tumbling out occasionally from the democratic countries.
In Genghis'time the penalty for cheating was death. In fact as a kid, when his family had been left to die in the freezing cold in an act of betrayal, he is said to have killed his elder brother when it was discovered that the sibling was not sharing food with other starving family members. I feel Genghis was born ahead of his time; his style of functioning could surely have helped the world of today cleanse itself of a few ills. Particularly in the democratic countries!
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