Pros And Cons Of Greek Democracy

The Greeks - they’ve done so much for us. They’ve pioneered the fields of modern math, science, biology, and also endeavored in more entertainment such as theater and art. Much of what we know today has been built off the back bone of what the Greeks discovered and wrote down. In fact, the Greek had the first historian to exist - Herodotus, who wrote a book simply called The Histories. But one can say none of this world be important without their governing system - democracy. None of this could be as organized and be as successful as it was without a good government ensuring the prosperity of all their people. However, the Greeks’ democracy was not like the one we have today. In America, we have a representative democracy. We vote for leaders in our areas, and they go to the capital to represent us as a whole - something that may not be entirely accurate, as it is almost never possible to have an entire district agree unanimously on a single issue. The Greeks had a more accurate, but inefficient (if it were upscaled to today’s population) way of handling democracy. The Greeks

There is definitely something we can learn from the earliest democracy to ever exist - which is somewhat embarrassing and something to be ashamed of, given the fact that we have had millennia to improve upon the system, and all we have done is make it worse. Perhaps it is not a fault of our different, representative-based system, but simply the changing values, morals, and mindset of people today - we’ve been more focused on ourselves, our happiness, and our prosperity, while completely disregarding others that we do not know. Maybe we don’t need to improve the system and become more like the old democracy we based our government off of - that would work just fine - maybe we need to improve ourselves and become more like the Greeks