The State, as a political configuration established in the Modern Age, is not just in crisis, but in fact and by law, it is a totally powerless institution when faced with current events, and even more so with those to which the globalization of the 21st century is propelling us.
Similarly, and simultaneously, democracy is a system of government equally powerless to resolve conflicts that surpass its legal, economic, and political capacities.
However, human beings are incapable of finding either an alternative to the State as a political institution or a restoration of democracy. Let alone its necessary transformation or conversion into a political regime more favorable to the freedoms of honest, hardworking people, and much more respectful of each and every one of us.
Human life is an individual self-deception. Political life is a collective self-deception. But we all know that neither the State nor democracy are eternal or everlasting. And we also know that this knowledge is perfectly compatible with self-deception, both individual and collective.
Jesús G. Maestro
