THE VIOLENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

THE VIOLENCE OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Democracy means ‘rule by the people’. In Greek, ‘demos’ is defined as ‘people’, and ‘Kratos’, ‘rule’. Yet in the world that we live in, it is a far cry from the root meaning of the word itself. Many of the countries that are constitutionally considered democratic have a selective version of democracy that best suits those in power. John Dewey (1859–1952), an American philosopher, associated with pragmatism, in his political philosophy, speaks about democracy as a means to help citizens to the ‘full realisation of their potentialities’; yet it would seem that in many democracies in Asia, these potentialities seem to benefit only a few.


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