Systemic Suppression

The project of democracy is essentially about the liberty of the individual. Adherence to social mores and cultural values can be appealed to under any form of government. Democracy, the culture of it, the practice of it, the spirit of it must lift a nation by lifting its individuals through empowerment. That is what it is intended to do.

- Aakar Patel

In one of his essays, CS Lewis tells us that the “first qualification for judging any piece of workmanship from a corkscrew to a cathedral is to know what it is — what it was intended to do and how it is meant to be used. After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose, and the Communist may think the same about the cathedral. But such questions come later. The first thing is to understand the object before you: as long as you think the corkscrew was meant for opening tins or the cathedral for entertaining tourists you can say nothing to the purpose about them.”