To live without
freedom, we do not need democracy. The politically unjustifiable extension of
the State of Alarm in Spain beyond the date of May 11, 2020, not only revealed
that the effective powers of the Spanish nation had no interest in deploying
preventive and protective alternatives to public health apart from this
imposition, which denies our freedoms but also undoubtedly and unequivocally
preferred to maintain the current status quo and exercise power ignoring
democratic demands and possibilities.
Democracy,
under the imperatives and ideological formats of postmodernity, continues on
its course towards a dead-end. Without intelligent and workable alternatives.
Democracy, denying its own political possibilities, becomes from that moment
onwards, for many people, an increasingly disappointing administrative regime
devoid of resources. Because, I insist, to live without freedom, we do not need
democracy.
We know that
ideologies are placebos that the elites manage for the people. And that the
people themselves consume with addictive relish. And we know that such placebos
are the engines from which political parties are propelled, which, instead of
uniting the population, irrationally separate and divide it. And above all,
irreconcilably. While we were told, in the most trite possible way, that we
stop the virus together, we were drifting apart further and further. In every
possible ideological direction. Notice how facts demand a path that is
diametrically opposed and contrary to the language through which these same
facts are communicated.
Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about this ideological system is that ...
