One of the
greatest hallucinations in history, one of the grandest mirages of
intelligence, is to believe that human freedom never regresses politically.
However, to the surprise of many, though not all, the episodes we have
experienced since the early years of the 21st century demonstrate that
postmodern democracies provoke more hallucinations and mirages than many of the
most ferocious totalitarian regimes historically recognized for centuries as
such.
It doesn't
surprise us that humans prefer guilds, sects—a term undoubtedly more
pejorative—the unanimist group—an ersatz for a closed society—over society
itself, open and raw, despite there being more freedom outside the silence of a
disciplined community or a hermetic flock. It's not surprising—think of
Nazism—that humans prefer nationalism within their territory rather than life
in a political geography uninfluenced by nationalism, despite there being more
freedom outside a nationalist society than within it. And it's not surprising
because everyone makes their own rules, and each person has a different idea of
freedom, shaped by multiple circumstances, or even none, based on their life
experiences.
Therefore,
it's not surprising that humans prefer living within an isolating culture
rather than engaging, speaking, or studying an inclusive culture, code, or
language, historically and geographically endowed with greater linguistic and
scientific competencies, used by millions and millions of people, even though
among three hundred to six hundred million speakers there's more freedom than
among two or four million of them. This reality, with its consequences for one
and all, must be acknowledged in the 21st century.
It's not surprising that humans prefer dogmatic religion over life in a civil and civilized society, where ecclesiastical and theological fundamentalism is ...
