POLITICS — HONEST EXAMINATION
Hamma Mirwaisi
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When It Started — Why It Has Failed — And What Comes Next
POLITICS honest examination
THE HUMANITY SYSTEM
Hamma Mirwaisi
when did POLITICS start
POLITICS failed humanity
By Hamma Mirwaisi — Author and Founder of THE HUMANITY SYSTEM
Opening — The Honest Question
Five thousand years ago — human beings invented politics.
They did not invent it out of greed or malice. They invented it out of genuine necessity. Populations were growing. Communities were becoming too large and too complex to be governed by the informal social bonds of small tribal groups. Resources needed to be managed. Disputes needed to be resolved. Laws needed to be written and enforced.
Politics was humanity's answer to these genuine challenges. And in many respects — as this article will honestly acknowledge — it was a genuinely important answer.
But five thousand years later — after centuries of democratic revolutions — constitutional reforms — international institutions — and the most sophisticated systems of governance ever developed — the honest question remains:
Has politics genuinely delivered a good life and genuine peace to every human being on Earth?
The honest answer is no.
And this article explains why — honestly — carefully — and with genuine respect for both the achievements and the failures of the political systems that have governed human civilization for the past five thousand years.
Part One — When Politics Started and Why
5000 Years Ago — The Birth of Political Systems
