As Yanis
Varoufakis said in this recent interview:
Europe
and the United States were never set up as democracies. Read the
Federalist Papers. It was all an attempt to make sure that the
riffraff do not control governments. We hark back to the Magna Carta.
The Magna Carta was not a democratic instrument, it was a charter of
barons. It was all about their right to have slaves and not to be
taxed by the king.
Aristotle
defined, I think, democracy very well even though he was
anti-democratic. He said it's a system of governance where the many —
and therefore the poor, who are always in the majority — control
government.
It is
impossible for our sophisticated societies to become sustainable
without democracy. Democracy is not a luxury.
If you
go to Europe today, what unites them [people] is a sense of
hopelessness. A sense that their democracies have been usurped, that
their democratic rights mean absolutely nothing, that there is a
decision making process, which combines authoritarianism with
incompetence. And therefore, you end up with a situation where the
only ones who are really energized by the fragmentation - and the
constant economic, moral, political crisis - are the fascists, the
xenophobes and the racists.
Financial
capitalism under the neoliberal 'ideology' that has started in the
early 70s, has offered a fake prosperity - all based on debt - for
the masses in Western societies, for a couple of decades. Through this
way, the ruling class managed to 'hypnotize' the majority, hiding the
enormous fraud. This 'hypnosis' made societies compromise with the
wars and destruction outside the Western soil.
As long
as this colourful circus was performing on the stage of a deceptive
ideological framework, very few bothered to question and condemn the
undemocratic nature of the West. And they were often being
characterized as 'radicals' by the establishment machine.
When
this illusion collapsed, the ugly picture of reality paralyzed the
societies. The police state became stronger under the pretext of
terrorism to crush any thoughts for uprising against the fake
democracy.
The more
people wake up and realize the authoritarian nature of the regime,
the more it will becoming more authoritarian. Just think for a
moment: it's not only the increasing censorship, the brutality of the
police state. It is also the fact that the warmongers of the regime
don't even bother to search for pretexts to conduct new wars.
Varoufakis
says that Europe and the United States were never set up as
democracies. And that it is impossible for our sophisticated
societies to become sustainable without democracy. It is highly
questionable whether our societies are indeed sophisticated apart
from the technological progress. Yet, there is no doubt that they are
walking away from real democracy instead of trying to approach it.
So, instead of becoming sustainable, they become increasingly
unstable, which fatally leads to their final collapse.
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