Democracy and chemical castration

 

Hello, my dears. This is a transcript of my latest episode. If you prefer a spoken word, here’s the link:

https://world-according-to-gemini.castos.com/episodes/episode-13-democracy-and-chemical-castration

 

Hello, and welcome to the ‘World According to Gemini’ podcast.

If you are a new listener, I’ll tell you in two words what’s happening here. We are talking about politics, art, science, philosophy, crime, food, love, hate, dogs, cats, motorbikes, and so on. The usual. The only catch is that we are trying to give you a different perspective on something well-known and well-discussed. Some of those perspectives could be questionable or rather disagreeable with some of ye. For example, at the moment, we are preparing a podcast about Che Guevara, the hero of the Cuban Revolution and a darling of liberated females worldwide. Not everyone knows that Che Guevara was a fanatic, a murderer, a rapist, a thief and the lowest form of a human being who personally tortured and executed gays, priests, scientists, and even his own friends. There’s much more to this character. Anyway, some of us don’t know, and some of us don’t want to know because he is a symbol and because he’s sexy. You can buy a Che Guevara T-shirt on Amazon for 9.99 Euros, by the way.

And I know that we will be universally hated after this podcast is out, but all we’re trying to do is to give you a different perspective on something well-known. That’s it. That’s what our podcast is about. When I say ‘We’, I mean Gemini. As you probably know, every Gemini has at the very least two different opinions about absolutely everything. That’s why we tend to annoy people so much. One more thing you have to know is that we are not native English speakers, and so there is bad grammar and some questionable stylistic choices in our podcasts. We might speak English, but we still think in Russian. So, be gentle, and don’t get offended by anything we say. We try to deal with facts and data, nothing else.

Back to our podcast. I have bad news, and I have good news.

Bad news first.

My audience is shrinking, it seems. In my last podcast, we were comparing the Christmas celebration styles in the West and in the East. And, I’ve just lost two of my listeners. A Russian gentleman who was offended by my comments on our General Secretary’s New Year speech said I was mocking ‘Something which was holy for the Soviet people’. And then I got an email from an Irish lady who didn’t like my Christmas story about someone who put a sex toy in her daughter’s bag. She was scandalized, and she said that I am deeply offensive. So those two are gone forever. And my dream of becoming a podcast legend is somewhat diminishing.

Now the good news.

I still have my most devoted follower, the American lady who wants me chemically castrated. She is still with us, and as long as she is, I will continue, no matter what. Her name is Casey. So, my dear Casey, I dedicate this podcast to you. And by the way, if you are ever in our parts, don’t be a stranger, pop in for a coffee. We can be friends, believe me.

Now, back to the podcast. Today we are going to talk about democracy. I won’t give you any opinions, just historical facts and nothing else. Just a different perspective. So, armed with data and facts, we shall proceed.

Democracy.

This word is an old prostitute which was used by every politician or every journalist around the world for centuries. Imagine a hundred years old woman who is missing one leg and one eye, has plastic teeth, false eyelashes, she has no hair, she cannot see, she cannot hear, can barely walk, and has every disease known to humanity. She looks dreadful, but she is still somehow a favorite among those politicians and journalists who use her every single day, in every position, if I’m allowed to say so. But we have to remember that there was a time when she was a young, innocent and beautiful girl. So let’s go to the very beginning, to the time when this girl was conceived. In the 5th century there was this enormous Greek city-state Athens. And there was trouble, there was unrest, military coups, corruption and so on. It was a mess. The political system at the time was called ‘Oligarchia’, which means a government run by a small number of powerful people. Their leader, Cleithenus was very unhappy about the state of affairs and decided to do something. So eventually he created and introduced a system of political reforms which he called ‘Demokratia’. As you know, ‘Demos’ means ‘People’ and ‘Kratos’ means ‘Rule’. So, ‘The rule of the people’. This system allowed ‘Demos’ to have a direct role in a decision making process. Basically, that’s it. So

nds good so far?

Yes, it does. And that’s what we are being taught in our schools. Now let’s see who were considered to be ‘Demos’ or ‘People’ in Athens and who were not.

You all know this quote from the Animal Farm novel by George Orwell. ‘All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others’. Cleithenus, he didn’t read Orwell for obvious reasons, but he basically had the same idea. Yes, he was not a politically correct person. He simply wanted to have a practical solution to the problem. He decided that ‘less equal’ should not be allowed to make decisions. So let’s see, who were those less equal?

Here goes.

Slaves, women, children and foreigners. They were not considered to be proper people or ‘Demos’, and therefore were not allowed to vote. Only male, free citizens of the age of 18 who also went through a military service had a right to vote. That’s about 20% of the population, which is hardly a majority.

‘Power of the people’, my arse, pardon my Greek. It’s not exactly how our politicians describe democracy, would you agree?

Now, if you are a liberal mind, to you, this system might sound unfair. But before we start jumping to conclusions, let’s just have a closer look at the practicalities of the system. You know, most ideologists, government, religious leaders and politicians and all of those, they, all try to divide people by applying some social, biological, political, religious, gender theories and so on. Like in Nazi Germany, Northern Europeans were considered to be a superior race or humans or ‘Demos’ or ‘Mensch’, which means people. The rest, all those Slavs, Asians, blacks, Jews, Gypsies, gays and such, they were called ‘Untermensch’, or inferior humans. Non ‘Demos’, in other words. In radical Islamic countries, women are not ‘Demos’. The only purpose of a woman is to serve her male masters. They’re not allowed to get educated, to get a job, to drive, etc. There are plenty of other examples of different ideologies which are based on division, like Marxism, KKK, Woke, PC crowd and so on. But all those theories are based on ideology, not on practicality. Ancient Greek’s approach was not ideological; it was purely based on practicality. And it actually made a lot of sense at the time. You see, contrary to what we’re told, the whole idea was not to give the power to absolutely everyone, but only to those who were genuinely concerned about the state of affairs and genuinely wanted to make positive changes which will benefit their country. In other words, to the patriots, to the citizens, educated people, land owners, aristocrats, military and so on. Now, let’s look at each category and let’s compare how it works in our time and how it worked in Athens.

We will start with citizens. Here’s a good example for you. I’m sure you heard about this cleric in Liverpool who spent two or three years in the prison on terrorist charges. Now he’s out and about and he’s teaching young Muslims about Intifada, degradation of the West, Sharia law and so on. He is a British citizen who is actively working on destroying the existing system. He’s a radical, and he’s a troublemaker. And the government cannot do anything about this guy. They cannot take his passport and send him back to Pakistan. He is a citizen. They did try. They did. But liberals didn’t allow this to happen. That’s it. End of the story.

In Athens, it was very easy to lose your citizenship. If there is a suspicion of corruption or criminal activity, if your colleagues decide that you have your own interests about the needs of the society, you are done. They have introduced something which was called ‘Ostrakism’, which means they take your citizenship and kick you out of the country. Fast.

In our modern democratic world, politicians, actually citizens, they can lie, steal, commit crimes, you know, crimes against their own people. But I’m still waiting to hear about anyone being kicked out of the country. And as far as I know, Tony Blair, who is a war criminal and who is directly responsible for this immigration mayhem, is still a British citizen.

So the score is 1-0 to the original democracy the way I see it.

What do we have next? Yes, children. In our, modern western world, we have a whole generation of teenage snowflakes who will rule the world in about 10, 15 years time. I’m not criticizing them. Jesus, no. My heart goes to this bunch of lost souls. They don’t even know who they are. They don’t know if they’re boys or girls, dogs or crocodiles. They see no difference between the virtual world and real world. God bless them.

You all know this poor child, Greta. I’m not going to criticize her, by the way. She has no knowledge or understanding of how things work in this world. She’s so confused that she doesn’t even realize how insulting her statement sounds. ‘You stole my childhood!’. My dear! Jewish kids who grew up in Auschwitz, they had their childhood stolen. African kids who dig lithium with their bare hands for your electric car batteries, they have their childhood stolen. Chinese kids who work in sweatshops, kids around the world who have their houses bombed and their parents killed. They have their childhood stolen, you idiot.

Anyway, she’s just a kid. She’s just a dumb kid. It’s not about her. It’s about the world in which she can publicly address the bunch of world leaders and say, ‘How dare you!’, without offering any meaningful solutions to any of the existing problems. Well, that’s what kids do. And I do hope that you can see why children were not allowed to vote in Athens.

So the score now is 2-0 to the original democracy.

Next. Foreigners.

It’s only in our democratic Western world a foreign minority can dictate to the native majority how to conduct themselves. Many years ago I was attending a Bradford city council meeting where politicians and locals were discussing the aftermath of Bradford riots, the situation where British girls were raped by Pakistani men. And also they were discussing racial conflicts in Leeds area. One of the speakers said that a conservative part of Muslim community is very angry about the way British girls present themselves. ‘They drink alcohol’, he said. ‘They don’t cover their heads, they expose their legs and arms, which is not acceptable to Muslims and which is basically a main reason for those girls being raped’. ‘They should learn respect and until they do, there will be incidents’, he said. He also suggested that introducing a Sharia law will improve matters drastically. How about that? I offer no comments. I will only say that I understand why foreigners were not given decision making rights in Athens.

The way I see it, the score now is 3-0 to the original democracy.

What do we have next? Yes, slaves. Well, I don’t think that if you were captured, brought into the country in chains and forced to work as a slave, you would be well motivated to make some meaningful contribution to the society. I just don’t see it happening. Hope you agree.

So, -40 to the original democracy.

Next. Women. Dear ladies………… I can feel the tension racing. I can feel it. Well, ladies, this is the only part I don’t agree with. In my personal opinion, if every single politician on the planet is replaced with world will be a much better place. And I’m pretty strong on this one.

The score is 4-1. Still, the original democracy, even if it sounds unfair, wins on practical points. Do you agree?

Now there’s something very interesting. Every citizen in Athens had slaves.

One of the researchers made a very interesting point. He said that it is slavery which made democracy possible. And I’ll tell you why. Here in the West, you vote every few years, you go to the polling station, you vote for somebody like Ken Starmer, and then you go home and sit there for another few years feeling unhappy. In Athens, it was completely different story. Athenian democracy was a full time job. There were millions of things which had to be discussed, which means you had to spend 4, 5 hours in the Assembly every single day. So if you are a poor person with only one or two slaves, you yourself had to work in your field or in your shop, you simply wouldn’t have time to go to the Assembly if you were a rich person with 10 or 15 slaves, you had more free time in your hands and you could afford to go and take part in those debates to devote your time and energy to the system fully.

So slavery made democracy possible.

And by the way, looking at the numbers, in reality, only about 15% of the population were actively involved in making decisions. So that is the original political system called Democracy. 15% of the population is slightly different from what we are told, don’t you agree?

Before I finish, I would like to mention something. As I said recently, I will be very happy to present my podcast to the selected group of people who do not support chemical castration like my dear friend Casey does.

I would like to move eventually everything to my Patreon page and to make it private. So you might want to visit my Patreon page and to subscribe. It will cost you a price of one espresso a month. And when I have enough money to buy a coffee maker, I will move there permanently. The name of the podcast is ‘The World according to Gemini’. So please do.

Also spread the word. I’m always happy to annoy new people.

And the last thing, I’m quite interested to hear your opinions, even if you don’t agree with everything I say. If you like to offer a topic, please do. I’m always happy to do so some research and to learn something new. My next podcast will be dedicated to the hero of the Cuban revolution, Che Guevara and political correctness phenomena.

For now, all the best.

God bless.

I love you all.

Goodbye.