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Dictatorship inevitably loses rationality, logic and commonsense

Oct 07, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The philosophical approach to human nature is that it doesn’t follow scientific laws. Science has predictability and determinism components to it; human behaviour does not. Nevertheless broad strands of human action can be predicted. One such experience is dictatorship.
The endemic problem with absolute power is that the deeper it sinks into its absolute state, the faster it loses logic and balance. There has never been a dictatorship that has been in control over its impulses.
That is the tragedy with all types of autocracies, including elected dictatorship as we see in Guyana, Pakistan, Venezuela and Russia.
No set of rulers wants to appear unpopular. No set of rulers enjoys being hated by the citizens they rule over. The deterministic quagmire that confronts all types of dictatorships is that its point of diminishing return cannot be avoided.
When that stage is reached, planning, control, logic, rationality, clear thinking and even commonsense go out the window.
It is much too late for the PPP to pull back. The party has reached that stage. I doubt the PPP can win a hard fought election battle in 2011 with an umbrella third force and a massive organization among the people of south Georgetown by the opposition parties
The point to note about the Guyana regime is that it has lost all perspectives on how to appear as a good government. Irrationality has taken over.
I have often repeated on this page that with each passing day, you see the expanding instinct of tyranny in the policies of the PPP.
Take your memory back since the 2006 elections, and see if you can come up with a wonderful announcement by the PPP that have won them emotional embrace from the citizenry.
You have to count out the National Stadium. All Guyanese know that was an order from the ICC or else no World Cup Cricket. Berbicians were glad for the Berbice Bridge but it turned out to be ugly with no walkway for pedestrians and too expensive to use. Carifesta came and went like the morning sun without cheerleaders.
No one sees GUYEXPO as something great the Government does.
Just look around the landscape of this country and you see no policy that evokes ecstasy in people. On the contrary, since 2006 citizens have begun to hate their government for the unpopular things it does. There seems to be no pause.
This is my cry. This is my contention – there seems to be no pause. Pick up the papers, tune into to your television news and there is no reason to feel your government is beginning to change. It is the same tyranny every day only that it takes different shapes. So we read about CLICO and how NIS money disappeared. Then more bad news inevitably follows. NBS bought out CLICO shares in the Berbice Bridge and distributed the money to its friends that lost big time in the CLICO crash.
Then more bad news follows. Dr.Ramsammy is implicated in horrible episodes of extra-judicial perversities. The Government shows not an ounce of concern
More bad news on the scene. The Mormons were rounded up, taken to Eve Leary and given marching orders. More bad news follows. Peaceful protestors are arrested and taken to Brickdam.
Even more bad news follows. Kwame Mc Coy is accused of a huge sin. The Government refuses to comment. More bad news follows. Mr. Doodnauth Singh is so fed up with not receiving his gratuity he begs the court for justice.
More bad news follows. Retired judge, Jainarayan Singh exclaims that for one year now he is not paid his pension. More bad news follows. KP Thomas building rented from the Ministry of Works is torn down and the court is asked for justice.
More bad news follows. The Minister of Finance boldly announces that the retired justice hasn’t got a red cent to collect. This is because he was in the wrong profession.
He was acting for all the time he was a judge. According to the Finance Minister when you are acting and you retire you don’t collect.
More bad news to follow. The Minister of Education when asked why the Chief Education Officer is acting said that is not a question for him. He said that many persons are acting and the respective Service Commission is the relevant body to discuss confirmation. Sad but all those actors will end up like Justice Jainarayan Singh.
This is elected dictatorship in action. We will anxiously wait to see what other unpopular will be made in the coming days and weeks.
Logic, commonsense and rationality have left the PPP Government. Dictatorship has overtaken it.

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