time capsules

I am writing to you from the past. So, as usual, but a little more. Eduardo Galeano said, “At the end of the day, we are what we do to change who we are,” but we also have the before and after and the countless transcendent moments that chart our history. Is it now? I explain to you from the past: when you read these letters they will be on a thinking, voting day or even seeing the leaders of different parties from a balcony confirming that the elections were successful, thanking the Spaniards for their confidence, or blaming the voters for not knowing how to catch their proposals well.

And here I am, writing the most timeless article I’ve ever written, like the time capsules that future residents bury to read, although in this case the future is just around the corner. And in the meantime – as always, but a little more – a future for all of us to write about. Democracy is exactly that. AND the opposite is dictatorship but also stupidity and dear compatriots, Spain suffers from both diseases.

But any journey into the future always begins in the perfect past tense that brings us to this simple present, and that of democracy begins with Ancient Greece. About 2,600 years ago, the Athenians created a new form of government in which executive power came from the people: demokratía (demos, krátos e —ia; ‘the government of the people’). The importance of this fact is better understood when compared to the other: After 40 years of dictatorship in Spain, the first democratic elections were held only in 1977. National newspapers accompanied their enthusiastic headlines (“Today’s weather forecast shows good weather in Spain, a political spring gives the people of Spain back their sovereignty”; El País), along with a handbook reminding them of how to vote.

Since politics is more than a matter that concerns us all, what separates us from the animals is Aristotle, the greatest influencer of the time, who has already said: “Nature does nothing in vain. Well, she’s only giving the floor to the man. […] The word is given to express good and evil, and therefore just and unjust, and man has this characteristic among all animals: nature therefore instinctively attracts all humans to political unity. evolved humans, which he describes as zoon polity; political animals And even today – more or less – the RAE contains the fourth meaning of the word “political”: “activity when the citizen interferes with his opinion, vote or in any other way in public affairs”. The opposite of this “political animal” was (and is) “fool”, derived from the Greek idiotes: “private and selfish citizen not interested in public affairs”. This indifference to others is better understood by the inflection of the word in the script, which is given today as “stupid or lack of understanding” until it reaches the RAE. Be careful, not everything that glitters is gold. The fact that the ancient Greeks, including Aristotle himself, were not idiots but scumbags confirms that this ‘democracy’ bears the fine print that ‘the people’ speak of ‘free man’ except slaves and women. Can’t describe it better than these lines from I am-my-my-my-mine: “When the Nazis came to take the communists away, I kept quiet because I wasn’t a communist…” and this paints an excellent portrait of what society loses when stupidity gains ground. Countless examples of the tale of the ant who hated cockroaches and voted for pesticides. They’re all dead, even the abstaining cricket.

Praising the non-dumb, Aristotle seems to have been the first to speak of politics as the “art of the possible,” as Machiavelli or Churchill would later respond, and this is open to two interpretations depending on whether one sees the glass half full or half empty. For those of us who see politics as the laudable task of managing and increasing public resources (from the Latin publicus, belonging to the people), the ‘possible’ utopia is. You see… Just like time capsules.

“Utopia is on the horizon. I walk two steps, he moves two steps away and the horizon stretches ten steps further. So what does utopia work for? It’s good to take a walk for that. Eduardo Galeano

“Democracy is a story of pluralism and tolerance, not victory and imposition. That is why there is no victory in democracy, there is peace, and peace is the real victory of the political life of the peoples”. Shimon Peres.

Source: Informacion

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