Landslides/ avalanches
Both avalanche/landslide are similar except in the composition of their matter snow/ice and earth/mud. When snow does not compact to bear fresh snow on steep slopes, adverse weather causes un-stability and avalanches. Similarly, deforested hills crumble into landslides after heavy rainfall. Everything in their path is swept clean.
The same prescription holds good in the affairs of men politics, government, administration and people. When the foundation corrodes and decays each subsequent layer degenerates and the top degrades into depravity, immorality and vice. Then one day the whole edifice of good governance crashes down sweeping away everything in its path.
Every democratic dispensation, like a tripod, has three pillars to support it. The Legislative to formulate laws and rules of conduct, the Executive to govern, develop and implement projects to benefit the people, and the Judiciary to see that justice is done. Standing by as a watch-dog, is the Fourth Estate, the Media, to inform and to shout fearlessly for any deviation from accepted norms, by the other three. For 20 years, having democratic governance, which due to circumstances or design has degenerated into "One Party Democratic Dictatorships", has privileged us. The net result has been:
1. The Legislative, most of the time, devoid of any opposition, spends its time in heaping praise on one, while hurling invectives on the other.
2. The Executive pays lip service to necessities like population control, food, power, water, infrastructure, environment, energy etc. All we get is regular doses of grandiose “lollipops” like metros, free-ways, maglev, subways, giga-watts, and the latest, a 50,000 crore airport.
3. The Judiciary is above comment, but lo and behold, adverse comments are a-plenty recently in the media with one senior barrister openly commenting that rot has set in here too.
4. The media, which is the watch-dog, has tried to remain steadfast, but they have already been taken to task by “people's representatives”. So how long can they endure the pressure and survive?
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