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A Post-Democratic Society

 


Late 20th-century democracy has been more beneficial to commerce enthusiasts than to democrats. Its significant advantages and unprecedented successes have made it a completely anachronistic and untimely political regime today. Its own achievements have destroyed it.

Today, democracy is an outdated form of governance. It belongs to the past. Nobody believes in it because nobody wants to admit it. It's irrelevant: reality has never cared about the opinion of humans lacking power. Democracy is the name inherited from an imperfect and recent past that used to govern our way of life. Nowadays, commerce and its allies manage that life of ours.

If politics is the organization of power, that is, the administration of freedom, the rights of the democratic citizenry are moving away from the legal framework of States and increasingly resemble rights that fit on a "complaint form."

With the historical failure of democracy in the 21st century, three realities with which human beings ...

 

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