Introduction : Power creates power , power controls power, power needs power and power plays the game of world peace as per its choice, wish and strength. For the sake and thirst for money, powerful political leaders and nations discard and disrespect world peace .Right from individuals up to governments all entities love power and long for power. For, power gives joy, strength, superiority and control over others and resources.. Of course there are many variety of powers and among the powers, money power, knowledge power and political power are three important powers that control the destiny of humanity today positively and negatively.
Money Power and Politics: Now-a -days money power is used by the politicians to get political power. Practically it is not at all possible at present , to win a general election without the help of money power . Laws passed to control the influence of money in the Legislative Elections , have miserably failed to do their jobs. . Existing laws and administrative checks could not stop the influence of money power in the Legislative and Parliamentary Elections . So the people with money power or those candidates who are supported by people with money power alone can win the elections.Naturally our elected Legislators and Parliamentarians are under the influence of the rich people who supported them, with their money . It is said in these days of globalization , rich people, business tycoons and Multinational Corporations of local and foreign origin are wielding great power and influence on the voters so as to elect the Political Representatives of their likes. Until and unless the voters are politically enlightened Politics can not be redeemed and saved from the clutches of the money power .Definitely people who spent money in the election will play all kinds of political chess to get back their money ,automatically corruption enters in . We need to remember that if the politicians who form the Government by the support of the Business magnets, fail to implement the policies and wishes of the business men or other rich men , definitely such Governments will be toppled or defeated by the business tycoons with the help of their money power in the next election . This is a stark reality in the present day global political scenario. Who can save politics or political democracy from the power of money.? Elected political representatives should deal with all the people without favoritism arising above all petty narrow domestic walls.That is the hall mark of a matured patriotic politician.
Knowledge Power and Politics: Good people are nothing but puppets in the hands of the mighty people so says an adage. Generally people with shrewd and sharp intelligence or knowledge with good speaking ability enter into politics,. Shrewd and knowledgeable politicians use the money of the rich people to contest in the Legislative elections by giving many promises to the supporter or donor. The rich man is in need of the knowledge power of the knowledgeable people and knowledgeable people are in need of the money of the rich people . Thus this mutual dependence forms the backbone of electoral politics and activates the politics.Moreover the knowledgeable people control the media of their respective nations. Knowledgeable persons do have the flair, intellectual resources and capacity to think analyse and write. And so they start Newspapers, Journals, and Magazines to voice for their political social and business causes. Actually the knowledgeable persons with the help of their writings in the News Papers and Magazines, sow, plant, create shape, guide and direct the political and social opinions of the nation ; in tune with their line of thinking and ideologies. In short they control the commanding heights of politics and public opinion in par with the actual political rulers and leaders of the nations. The knowledgeable people with the help of their knowledge power and Print and Electronic Media power, they make and demolish national Governments. There is always a silent invisible competition between the power of money and intellectual power , and always the persons with the power of knowledge have their upper hand over the rich people. It is quite obvious the knowledge power powerfully controls national and global Politics with the help of money and strategy. Knowledge is powerful so it should be used wisely; knowledge can be used for construction and also for destruction . Knowledge is not bad by itself; but all depends upon how it is used and that makes all the difference. Knowledge is generally selfish in nature . Who can save politics rather democratic politics from the selfishness of knowledge? Unfortunately the tall political leaders who make tall political claims and promises for the cause of the common man are not sincere to help the common man.Because the rich politicians and the educated politicians are not really interested to transfer the political power to the common man . Now we can say in politics specially in a democracy ; money, and knowledge singularly or jointly overpower of the common man's interest, political privileges and political power . Naturally ruling politicians want to keep the the common man under their control and influence as long as possible; so they do not want the common man to progress quickly and to become a political threat to them. In the same way the powerful nations want to keep other less powerful nations under their control generally.
Money, Knowledge, Politics, and World Peace : Money , knowledge and politics, all these are revolving and evolving around the fulcrum of power and for power . And power helps the people to acquire everything they want to have . The politicians spent their money and the intelligentsia use the Print and Electronic Media to get political power so that they can formulate suitable economic policies to accumulate wealth at the expense of the common man ..Unfortunately the world has been divided into so many social segments , into so many communal compartments, into so many religious regiments, into so many racial groups, into so many economic orders , into so many political blocks and so on. Wealth is needed for everybody and every nation ; but no individual , group , business organisation country should follow unscrupulous and selfish ways and strategy to accumulate wealth at the cost another fellow citizen or nation. Greediness for wealth is the basic base root cause for all hatred, cut throat competition,misunderstanding and disputes between human beings , communities , traders,business houses ,countries etc.
Conclusion: Immediate and concrete steps should be taken by the governments to eradicate illiteracy from the surface of the world to the maximum level, so as to narrow the knowledge gap between the human beings at the earliest.. Because a knowledgeable person is an enlightened person and he can not be fooled and subjugated easily A good political system should liberate its citizens from all types of social, economic and political chains and suppression.We need to have a new Global Political Order or System to live in this world happily and peacefully and to leave a peaceful world to be inherited by our children and grandchildren. We need new mind maturity to make human civilization more love oriented and fellowship oriented .. We need selfless political leaders who can love all the citizens and lead the people without discrimination and partiality. Economic growth and political power are needed but not at the cost of the social harmony, poor man's smile and another country's sovereignty. We need innovative political and economic thinking to solve all these problems and to establish universal political brotherhood. among people and nations.
[This Post will be modified and altered if needed later]'.P. BABU MANOHARAN.
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