Imagine the response that the inhabitants of the extinct German Democratic Republic or the current Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), conventionally known as North Korea, would give to this question. In the West, political life is not exactly like that of the regime in Pyongyang, of course. At least for now. But... what if freedom is the main facade of democracy?
Globalization, Anglo-Saxon and postmodern, imagines and designs the future of the world, the West, and Spain, as if that future—as if the world, the West, or even Spain—historically originated from the United States, a country actually devoid of history, and what is even more serious, devoid of literature. For contemporary Anglo-Saxon society, and especially for a country like the United States, literature is a kind of self-help book, sometimes expected to provoke emotionally impactful organic effects, comparable to horror films or pornographic movies. These are societies that measure the value of supposedly literary works not by the degree of their demand for human rationalism or genius, as always happened in the Hispano-Greco-Latin tradition, but by their organic effects, limited to bodily, emotional, or simply psychological experiences. Reduced to the sensuous, for the postmodern Anglo-Saxon, the literary experience excludes the intelligible and is limited to the basically instinctual or stimulating, from a "basic instinct" to "fifty shades" of Grey or Plato, in their more or less sexualized cave.
