It is curious
that democracy has been, and not just ironically, the only political system in
the history of humanity (allow us to speak so nobly...) that has simultaneously
confined and imprisoned all human beings on the planet in their own homes for
an indefinite period.
Even more
curious, and still ironic, is that this same postmodernized democracy,
supposedly to combat this virus, had to suddenly cease being democratic. This
suddenness must be read and heard in italics because it was a blow delivered
entirely by the State.
That this
virus was the intermediary bait for other hooks is something that nobody can
dismiss anymore. If not in intention, certainly in consequences, the outcomes
of these hooks, lures, and subterfuges are undoubtedly present. The most
effective and subtle intelligence is not the one designing intentions but the
one managing consequences.
In recent times, numerous prominent figures (whom journalists call gurus — I must note I always avoid speaking like a journalist), these figures — I say — have started to exercise prescience, discovering astonishingly obvious things (just around the corner) and preaching post-eventum prophecies, in other words, repeating obviousness that everyone knows (but in a solemn tone): whether dictatorships are more competent than democracies in solving problems, whether the Europe of nation-states is better than the Europe of nation-peoples, whether the suicide pill promoted by ...
