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Democracy and Barbarism
Human life in the past has been a wild and barbaric world against which efforts were made to achieve degrees of civilization. What assurance do we have that we will not return to barbarism? How reliable is it that democracy – postmodern democracy – will not engage in a troubling regression by colluding with barbarism, under the guise of an unreal and fraudulent civilization, unequal and delusional?
We are educated in the opposite idea: we are led to believe that this is a civilized world where there are some savages, whom the law, justice, or education – or even a God, or other similar fictions, greater even than the fiction of justice itself – put in their place. What if it's a lie?
Because if everything is savagery and barbarism, without exception, those who innocently believe that the world is civilized will perish, victims of deception, before others. And democracy itself will have become in the 21st century a political regime that sponsors barbarism above the civilization from which it claims to originate.
Under such conditions of alliance with postmodernity, democracy will have sown the seed of distrust. Among other seeds lethal to freedom. Our freedom.
Jesús G. Maestro