7 Wonders of the World

A farce.
It is a farce. The contest was never a fair game.
The contest asked for public voting, and it claimed that the Wonders of the World would be decided on the counts of votes received for the contenders.
This kind of concept does not appeal to me.
7 Wonders of the World, it is the list of the finest of monuments, the finest of architectural work, the finest structure, the finest of man's imagination, to be there in that coveted list. The monuments which describe man's struggle with the nature, challenging his's own limitations and building a wonderful thing that depicts an era, a civilization.

The contest is a big failure. One simply cannot ignore the fact that the Great Pyramids of Egypt is not in the list. This speaks a lot about the contest.
The architecture of the Great Pyramids of Egypt is still very baffling for modern day scientist. Its gigantic size makes a man realize his strength, his power and his determination. It has an aura unmatched by any architecture, but still it is not in the list. For me besides the Taj Mahal, it was the first monument that I came to know. It is still the one of the most visited monuments of all time. But why did it did not feature in the list?
It would be a tuff proposition for me to answer. But still I will put forward my views. The blunder in the contest made was by including the public, the hoi-polloi in the contest. Hmmm my views might seem to be very outrageous on the onset but I have a point to prove.
The contest gave a patriotic flavour, many voted for their monument as it was believed that it is matter of pride for their country. For example, Taj Mahal, it got the maximum of vote, the success was partly because of immense propaganda at the eleventh hour and partly because of huge burgeoning up-to-date Indian populace. But the Pyramids missed out.
I hope I am understood to some extent. For deciding the coveted list, it was wrong thing to include the commoners. The privilege of voting must have gone to those who have sound knowledge on this regard, to the experts, who could have judged properly keeping an eye on various parameters. A commoner who does not have an understanding should not be a part of this voting..

I have some examples to prove my stance. The American so called forefathers believed the same when it came to choose the person who could lead the nation. They never believed that the decision of the commoners could always be correct, could always choose the right person.

Anyways the results have come, I have voted thrice for the TAJ, but still get pissed off when I do not find the immortal Pyramids in the list.

The basic thing on which I tried to build this blog seems to have gone wrong. Pyramid is still the only World Wonder.