Now what?

The departure of the autocrat under the chaotic pressure of the population he ruled is a somber reminder that systems built with false assumptions are bound to fail. Democracy, most intuitively elect to be good, is a highly inefficient form of governance without sufficient control of uncertainty. Humans, with novice brains, incapable of valuing actions under uncertainty, generally gravitate toward actions that demonstrate value in the short run. However, such actions, albeit with desired tactical outcomes, can lead to value loss. Value, after all, emanates from the ability to invest in ideas and not in chaotic and unpredictable outcomes.

As the press, with highly diminished brains at sub-human levels, laude the outcome – the departure of the autocrat - a more important question is, now what? Does the departure of the autocrat unambiguously increase the value of the country? A more interesting question is why they had an autocrat for over three decades and one day decided to throw him out. As they rejoice in the streets and in every capital city across the world, where the leaders laude the democratic outcome, without sufficient understanding of what they mean – one has to bring this all back to the fundamental question, now what? The country has a checkered history of over 5000 years of accepting and rejecting autocrats and so the present uprising is nothing different from what has been happening before.

As the democracy loving people around the world pop open Champaign bottles, they have to at least consider the more enigmatic question – now what?