Politics, law, economics, even culture, have become a kind of empty mechanics, dull syllogisms, false assumptions.

From so much repetition, doctrines are reduced to speeches that sound like a tin drum, are there any ideas or just simplifications, speeches, cheap rhetoric?

The problem is also the drama that does not think about politics, law, or economics, and even less about the concept of country. They are words that hide intentions that are never revealed, or general words that are used as tools based on certain advantages, specific interests of those who have won power. How many innovative ideas were fed by university professorships, reflections and political proposals, and how many independent parts of propaganda melodramatic literature, which is repeated again and again? How much do you lie these days?

Courtesy of Jorge Edwards

Cuba: voting in a dictatorship

Democracy is going through the worst crisis in living memory, but no one dares to question its foundations, dig below the surface and propose an examination of the delay in truth that the electoral system has caused. Has the concept of “the people” ever been called into question or do we tremble that it is a fiction in the name of which countless abuses have been committed and some kind of despotism has been established? Isn’t the sovereignty on which the “legitimacy” of the system rests an evident remnant of monarchical absolutism? Aren’t assemblies and congresses oligarchies by representation?

And if we try democracy…

Democracy is going through the most difficult crisis we can remember, but no one dares to think about its foundations…

Right is not thought. We should not return to the fundamental ideas of the rule of law, the only possible opponent of the government. It never occurs to anyone to suggest that fundamental notions of political law have been replaced by reality, such as the alleged and nefarious representation of the people in assemblies. We have forgotten the republican concept, when it is necessary and urgent to tear down the clichés without thinking, which made it possible to build a legal system that systematically conditions the moral heritage of each person, which deifies the State and denies the dimension of the individual. for the benefit of hypothetical communities. ? And what about human rights, have they thought beyond the political literature that turns them into signs of the socialist left, who have found refuge in the latest intransigence for use, who enjoy the passing prestige of fashion?

And freedom, turned into a memorandum of any party, not recognizing that it is a virtue that characterizes and distinguishes a human being, that transforms his dignity. Has freedom been thought about beyond the idea of ​​doing whatever we want without suffering the consequences or losing sleep? When did liberalism become a bad word, if it is one of the foundations of democracy in whose name do we appoint any caudillo as a leader?

And what about civil society, turned into belated consolation, whose immobility is evident? Have we given up thinking? (OR)