The GoGo Syndrome

All nations have been facing financial crises in the past years. Governmental budget cuts have targeted most of the departments. The “untouchable” governmental departments in most countries are defence, finance, security and foreign office. This sort of strategic thinking gives us a clear message: we belong to a security driven society, which is not wrong. It becomes wrong when the budget of these departments eats up other budgets.

It came to me that we should find different partners to
help in running the other departments: education, health, culture, sanitation etc. My suggestion is to implement democracy in its newest shape, by sharing the power of authority in each country. The elected government should be in charge of the “untouchables” and the rest of the nation through CSOs and institutions should be able to run and foster the touchable departments.

We know from history how kings used to run countries in medieval times: reigning in the untouchables, while leaving the rest to the public. In Britain, we have the example of Grammar Schools- the contribution of society to the development of the country.

The challenge at the end of the day is for us to revisit our definition of democracy and make it more inclusive, so that the GoGo Syndrome (Governmental Governance) is distributed equally.