Imagine the
response inhabitants of the former 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 in the regime of Pyongyang, of course. Not at the moment. But... what
if freedom is the main facade of democracy?
Globalization,
Anglo-Saxon and postmodern, envisions 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 came from the United States, a country actually devoid of history
and, more significantly, without literature. For contemporary Anglo-Saxon
society, and especially for a country like the United States, literature is
akin to a self-help book, sometimes demanded to provoke emotionally impactful
effects comparable to horror movies or a pornographic film. These are societies
that measure the value of what supposedly constitutes literature not by the
degree of demanding human rationalism or genius, as always occurred in the
Hispano-Greco-Latin tradition, but by its organic effects, confined to bodily,
emotional, or simply psychological experiences. Reduced to the sensory, for the
postmodern Anglo-Saxon, literary experience excludes the intelligible, limited
to the fundamentally instinctive or stimulating, from a "basic instinct"
to "fifty shades" of Grey or Plato, in its more or less sexualized
cave.
Be that as it may, our future does not adhere to the logic of the Anglosphere. Why do our university students and professors seek explanations in ...
