No democracy wants to survive contemporaneously without transforming reality and politics into a game of appearances, where the presumed power of the people is the largest and most colorful board.
Our democracies play more with irrationalism than with injustice. They play with fire in the haystack. In the haystack of the State.
Democracy, and particularly all contemporary democracy, has turned the Law into a spectacle of sleight of hand and malevolence. A chromatic and playful labyrinth, where enchantment, illusionism, and fallacy determine any possible outcome. Unlike board games, where the cheat is the only one taking that game seriously, in democracy, the opposite happens: the only ones taking the game seriously are honest and hardworking individuals.
Because they respect rules that no one follows, and in which no one believes. And that, as we have said, only serve to punish those who give up their personal freedom to assume and comply with such laws, on behalf of a collectivity that never appreciates it. Because people have the impression that, in democracies, the cheats are the ones who make and dispose of the laws, whose power it is.
The proverb has said it since time immemorial: he who made the law made the trick. And there go laws where kings want. What is illegal today, tomorrow is constitutional.
The essence of democracy is to negotiate with the delinquency and corruption that make it possible as a system of government, insofar as it invisibilizes these last two, with which it always dances behind the scenes. In a democracy, there can be no effective laws, neither for education nor for any other category, when no one follows them.
Under such circumstances, democracy is a game among cheats. It is no coincidence that trickery is what our students learn best to do. Human beings mature when they execute their first ruse. So, the essential principle of all democracy is the legalization of failure in a political society. Without cheats, there is no democracy.
Jesús G. Maestro