Shifting Choices Of Public Life

The modern predicament of Nepalis is this: exponential growth in their political consciousness but little choice for dignified life, livelihood and liberty. Democratic politics is a game of free choice for the people to seek the type of ecological, social, economic and political actors, policies and institutions they are comfortable with and use their efficiency to enhance their life-enhancing prospects. Informed choice is an act of deciding among several positive possibilities of life informed by normative ideals of good over the bad without constrained either by an unawareness of self or unbounded fear of authorities, or even the burden of the past. This is the reason democracy seeks to create pluralism of ideas, actors and institutions so that no one can keep monopoly or deny others access to knowledge, power and resources essential to marvel at the life of liberty, choice, wellbeing and dignity. No one can undermine the ability of people to judge the art of statecraft.