Democracy
fails where freedom ends. And where the justice of the State begins to be
unequal for all. Democracy cannot be a political regime incompatible with
intelligent individuals, even less so incompatible with the freedom of
intelligent individuals.
The 20th
century gave us democracy, but it seems that the 21st century wants to take
away our freedom.
The human
being of the 21st century has sold their freedom to the friends of commerce and
enemies of democracy. Once lost, freedom is never restored or recovered in its
original version. It may be regained, undoubtedly, through various forms of
struggle, many of them disallowed by laws and even proscribed due to numerous
human limitations. But, in any case, what is recovered from lost freedom is a
different kind of freedom. Sometimes, entirely and absolutely different.
The apparent
triumph of the Anglo-Saxon world, its politics, religion, society, and its idea
of culture, which has been prevalent since the late 18th century, has led us to
this situation. And it now results in the surrender of human freedom to a
defined but invisible entity, which, above the States, manages the lives of
completely depersonalized and denatured human masses, of people without a State
and without freedom, of consumers of diverse ideologies and creeds, of failed
democrats who, unknowingly, will have consigned democracy to the annals of
history.
Since time immemorial, multiple curses have weighed heavily upon the image of a traitor. Something very similar happens with the figure of a coward. In fact, it is often assumed that the exoneration of betrayal is incompatible with human rationalism. It is an unforgettable and unforgivable experience for many people. The same happens with cowardice. Failures often go hand in hand with traitors and cowards. The history of politics, in which the genealogy and apocalypse of democracy are not unrelated at all, is a history of failures, betrayals, and cowardice with powerful consequences. It is also a history of impotence and frustrations that should not make ...
