Inclusive society - 2016 teaches us a hard fact...

I am returning to my blog page after 5 years - results of the US Presidential race being the catalyst.

A lot of the noise around the election result seems to be an over-reaction to me (disclaimer: I am not a fan of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton).

What is interesting to note in the 2 most talked about events of 2016 till now (other being Brexit vote) is the fact that the media and especially social media went berserk once the results were out. We all (the active users/consumers of social media) got influenced by what we heard and saw through the 'myopic' eyes of others. Human psychology at its best - 'believe what you see' but all that we see is through a 'digital bioscope' (internet). The reality was different and that's why many of us seem to be in a state of dis-belief.

When I read statements like "This is the beginning of the end...", I really do not understand what it means. The 'so-called' civilized world moved to democratic structures indicating clearly that each person has a equal say on who should represent them and be responsible for their welfare; irrespective of what their net worth is.

But wait --- most democracies existing today are less than a 100 years old and in most cases, cannot be 'tagged' as socialist. In almost all countries in the world, the gap between the rich and the poor has increased since the beginning of the 21st century - a more of 'capitalist' trait although within the legal contours of democracy.

So clearly there is a strata of society in each of these countries, which is continuously drifting apart from the progress levels that some of their country people have been gaining from. They do not have a strong voice and are invisible through the 'digital bioscope'. They are the people who are feeling vulnerable and thus got influenced strongly by 'anti-establishment' talks - commonality between what we saw with Brexit and the US elections. All surveys and polls got it wrong coz they were skewed towards what they heard and saw through the 'digital bioscope'.

I hope that the world realizes sooner than later that progress necessarily has to have a prefix - 'Inclusive'...