Compulsory freedom: the paradox of democracy

Democracy is founded on the game of the majorities, a silly game, considering that if you are lucky you get 49% against 51%.

Anyway, the will of the majority imposes itself on the one of the minority.

Through voting every person older than 18 can express his/her will.

In democracy everything is permitted, as long as more than 51% of the voting population wants it.

It is also possible to change the constitution, with a bigger percentage, yes, but it is possible.

.... And so one beautiful sunny sunday morning we are all called to the polls (if it's raining they don't even try to have elections because the seats would remain deserted).

I also go, I also go to vote.... of course only if it's a sunny day.

Right, left, center right, center left, moderate, liberal, conservative, republican, democrat, communist, socialist, progressive, constitutionalist, populist... and you are there and have to put a cross somewhere. But where? I think one puts it a little bit randomly, not really convinced, not so deeply informed, only somewhat proud to be a Citizen (with a capital C).

But you know how it is, after a while you get a little bored to randomly cross boxes now and then, and perhaps the weather is not so good, perhaps the government fell during the winter... and the result is that  the voters are less than 50% of the population with right to vote. 

So I ask myself: why do we still have a democracy? The majority has expressed itself very clearly: it doesn't want to vote, but democracy is founded on the notion of voting, which is the basis of our freedom. Ergo the majority does not want freedom... but we don't have the freedom to refuse this freedom. We have the freedom to vote and propose anything except the abolition of freedom! 

I think democracy is a bit out of fashion, perhaps it's time for a bit of dictatorship, or for an elitist oligarchy, or for an illusion of anarchic freedom, or for nostalgic monarchic revival!

Why have we never seen on a ballot such an array of options: democracy, anarchy, dictatorship, monarchy, oligarchy?

Thus in democracy all freedoms are contemplated except the freedom of non−freedom... And this had already been discovered by the mathematician Gödel, who stated, in his

incompleteness theorems, that a system is either coherent or complete, but never both!

Our freedom is compulsory: we can make all the laws we want, but we cannot subtract ourselves from the sweet obligation of freedom!