THE VALUE OF IGNORANCE FOR A GOVERNMENT IN SOCIALISM
By: Raul Campos
Tags: Venezuela, Society, Socialism, Ignorance, Politics

During my growth as an adult I never thought of ignorance, how a person can know what other people know and how this knowledge can affect your life or future, it is simple humans live in communities with other people. The lives of these individuals is governed by the political system called Democracy. Modern democracy has a very important characteristic, the choice of the person who will lead the community and the policies that affect it are chosen by the majority in a determined adult population.

Ignorance plays an unknown and important role in democracy.

What represented this ignorance for the founders of most modern democracies. Actually not much for them, their lives were simpler than ours with smaller populations and the systems that maintained society were primitive. Communications with other democracies took time. The founders determined that only men would vote in that democracy and to improve the classification only men with property, this guaranteed that they were not ordinary people but the predominant class. This predominant class in their infinite wisdom would choose what would be best for the lower class masses.

The struggles for equality have been numerous and difficult, the elimination of slavery, the right to vote for every man and in the end later than it should allow the vote to women. This necessary equality allowed the entire population to participate in the choice of who would be the ones who would maintain the systems and policies that would direct their lives.

Venezuela is no exception in terms of political life in South America, struggles, protests, uprisings, dictatorships and populism. What is significant is that the Venezuelan never had much voting culture after 1950 with the emergence of modern democracy and it was not until the appearance of Hugo Chavez Frias and his populism that the vote became important in Venezuela. In its beginnings Chavez raised an intellectual population either left or right but without comparison to the illiterate population.

Venezuela has never lacked schools or universities but the culture of study was generally for middle and upper classes. You could work and live in comfort without even finishing high school which was the case of my parents, so a young man could leave his studies at age 12 and start working can make a comfortable life for him and his family . How much you can know when leaving school so young and even more so without the discipline to continue expanding your knowledge.

The fact that you have studies does not guarantee that you know the future of a political decision but it does guarantee that you can learn from historical errors of the past and present. This ignorance is the fuel with which these populist political movements of our century are fed, you just have to watch the news. Ignoring reality and standing firm against the evidence of the failure of the political systems of the left is the rule for many in Venezuela. You just have to read “A Christmas Carol” when the ghost of the present Christmas is dying under his clothes had 2 deformed children of humanity and were called ignorance and Necessity.