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Democracy Will End Up Hanged by Democrats

The diagnosis is old:

The biggest disgrace of democracy is that it brings out the numerical strength of the idiots, who are the majority in humanity.

I try to imagine what Nelson Rodrigues would say if he were present in our days of internet and social networks. In the main democracies of the world, freedom of expression is no longer absolute: there are forbidden opinions, there is censorship. The mass of idiots annihilates everything that displeases it to listen. There has never been such ease for hatred to organize itself and find means of action. The digital mobs revolt, commit themselves to the prior judgment and fatally deprive some of the right to speak. They easily destroy careers, reputations, and work immeasurably for the total ruin of the objects of their hatred. The capital yields, because it is averse to polemics and shudders at the thought of the detriment of its image. And democracy does nothing but validate their fury, since it is the regime in which the majority implies the right, denotes reason. Social scientists debate: how to stop the action of organized hatred? How can we prevent the prevailing morality, once again, from methodically suffocating dissident demonstrations? Difficult… Many and many will still be honored by the fires of this time. Hate is the most powerful human impulse; it does not give in until it consumes its own obsession. They will continue to hate, to hate, to hate, until democracy ends up hanged by the democrats.

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Pleasure in the Verb

It is truly impressive how the human being likes to talk, talk, talk when the silence is infinitely more pleasurable. To relate or, in other words, to engage in an irritating and endless war of vanities… Meeting people: what is that, God? Time, that finite good, spent in a pernicious way. But there is worse: the verb, the shaking of the vocal cords is rarely the fruit of a noble motivation. Bad intention, unpleasant results… and we continue to collect inconveniences…

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The Collapse of Democracy

I have fun, for a few minutes, imagining chances for the natural collapse of democracy. The collapse is natural because democracy is naturally flawed and incompetent. Let’s see: the first hypothesis would be some kind of revolution. Difficult. Revolutions make noise, the people are the master of noise, and hardly the people would support a revolution for the abdication of their power. The people would never say: “Really, I am an imbecile, and the world would be better off if I stopped meddling in issues that I don’t have the least capacity to evaluate.” That is why, even if democratic regions were to find themselves in misery, it would be difficult for an undemocratic solution to be approved by “sovereign will.” Second hypothesis: subjugation by force. Undemocratic countries would subjugate the less developed and control them politically. Very, very difficult if done uncovered: it would culminate in war, death, revolt, etc. etc. War seems to me, above all, not intelligent. There is a third hypothesis, still considering subjugation by force, but in a veiled way. That is: by economic force, the most developed and undemocratic would undermine the sovereignty of the backward. It seems perfectly possible to me, given the infinite and hypothetical means of execution. To cover up the people would be a very easy task in the marketing era. It would be difficult, perhaps, to subjugate the ego of the representatives of the supreme will. But for that there is the capital, there is information technology, there is intimidation engineering. It’s funny: even if we dispense with conspiracy theories, conjuring up collusion among the global elite, there is still a balloon inflating, inflating, inflating, and it is inevitable not to have fun imagining it bursting.

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Every Attack of a Moral Nature Is, First of All, a Testimony of Vanity

Every attack of a moral nature is, first of all, a testimony of vanity. Those who attack consider themselves morally superior to those who are attacked. But when executed en masse, not only does vanity manifest itself, but cowardice and, who knows, certain sadism, natural to the members of the noble species when unable to control their most perverse impulses. Of these, what is expected of a hyena is expected: a smile of scorn and blood running down their teeth.

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