By Wally Sarkeesian
We Live in the Future — But Our Politics Is Stuck in the Past.
We live in the 21st century with AI, quantum computing, blockchain, satellites, global markets, and massively networked societies…
…but we are still running our political life on the mental software of the Middle Ages. trusting one Man to lead us.
Kings were simply renamed “Presidents” and “Prime Ministers.”
Royal courts were renamed “Cabinets.”
Priests became “Media and Influencers.”
Empires became “Blocs and Alliances.”
The structure never fundamentally evolved.
The costumes changed — not the architecture.
Humanity upgraded the hardware… but never updated the Operating System.
Why this matters now
When one person controls the fate of an entire nation, it only takes one:
- corrupt ego
- foreign pressure
- compromised elite network
- wrong decision
- psychological imbalance
…to destroy decades of progress.
One-person rule is inherently fragile.
Modern nations should never be dependent on a single individual.
Switzerland is the living proof
If you walk in the street in Switzerland and ask:
“Who is the President?”
Most citizens cannot answer.
That is not weakness — that is maturity.
The system is stronger than the individual.
But if you ask in unstable regions:
“Who is the dictator / the strong man leader?”
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia and so on…personality cults
Everyone instantly knows.
That is structural immaturity.
The more famous your leader is, the weaker your institutions are.
The more boring your government is, the stronger your democracy is.
Armenia urgently needs this evolution
Armenia is surrounded by existential forces.
Armenia cannot afford political systems that depend on the psychology of one man.
Armenia should have been the FIRST nation to adopt a Switzerland-style model: direct democracy, distributed power, referendum-driven checks, weak central executive, strong canton/local autonomy.
Small nations with high threats MUST not concentrate power.
The future of democracy is distributed
The next generation political model will be:
- Networked decision making
- Liquid democracy (delegate on specific issues, revoke instantly)
- AI-assisted corruption auditing
- Zero “single-point-failure” leadership power
This is the real future.
Not personality cults.
Not strong-man fantasies.
Not savior leaders.
Conclusion
We cannot solve modern problems with medieval political software.
Societies must upgrade the governance OS the same way we upgraded technology.
Modern hardware requires modern leadership structures.
And the most advanced political systems in the world… are the ones where leadership becomes almost invisible — because the system itself is what is strong.
We don’t need stronger leaders.
We need stronger systems.
Medieval Software. Modern Hardware.
Time to update the OS of democracy.