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or should There is no doubt: the once proud democratic systems are in danger, in the global North and South. But beneath this not so novel circumstance, a larger spectrum moves, which is not that of the communism that Marx and Engels announced in the 19th century. It is an enormous, extensive and intense discomfort with and in culture, with a greater corrosive capacity than that studied by Freud.
Thus, it should not sound exaggerated that from these solitary pages we warn of the accelerated collapse of many societies, and our own, despite the obstinate negativity displayed by our political leaders, in and against the State. We do not know what the company or capital think of this, but their departure from the public scene is regrettable and pernicious.
Not in all latitudes this drop is expressed in the same way; in some regions, such as Ukraine or the Middle East, armed destruction has been imposed as a routine; In Western Europe, unrest and the rise of the most brutal authoritarianisms are spreading, while here and now criminal violence is expanding among us, appropriating entire territories.
Insults and infamous inventions reign that parliaments find themselves incapable of modulating, so violence is enthroned as the main, almost sole, language in entire regions. He no problem
of the Sinaloa and federal governments only exacerbates people’s fear, which feeds back into their futile search for refuge in a passive and destructive anomie of our elemental tissues.
We have arrived at the time of adventurers, demagogues and careerists, imperially summarized by Trump’s new rise to US presidential power. The most powerful country in the world and with its new ruler unwilling to take charge of the dangers and multiple shortcomings of a world in accelerated transformation, without certain and coherent navigation coordinates. From anomie to entropy, then, and with no ports of relief in sight. All power to power, as Carlos Monsiváis used to ironically observe the sinister games of officials and unofficial ones.
After major crises, called recessions so as not to scare us, and pandemics, we reached a point of incredible fragility, confusion and bewilderment from the top to the bottom of the social and power pyramids that gave some meaning to the post-Cold War world. The more than evident crisis of leadership, supposedly responsible and trained in the experience of governing, is followed by false leaders who more closely resemble circus tamers. This multidimensional crisis of leadership is roughly associated with an institutional breakdown, whose elemental profiles we outline in Mexico with the aberrant judicial reform and its irrational but no less corrosive sequel.
Instead of having learned something about what those eventful years meant, dating back to the great crisis of 2008-2009, the covid fell on us and we found no better response than the sum of mistakes and resignation in the face of the daily abuses of the powerful and the criminals. Contrary to common sense, we do not reflect seriously or rigorously on the errors and abuses of the script followed by neoliberal globalization, nor did we seek to reform the capitalist system, starting with the recovery of a State that governs and promotes growth and well-being. .
The ill-fated combination of external opening without a creative counterpart with industrial and redistributive policy now overwhelms us with multiple deficits in policies and creation of public goods, the reproduction of job insecurity and the progressive weakening of social cooperation. All of this, as we said and repeat, has translated into more inequality, unshakable poverty, acute concentration of income and, now, of constituted power and of course that which derives from the iniquitous concentration of wealth that accompanies us.
We will have to be careful and take care that our leaders do not rule; that they stop cultivating denial as a way of leading the State and society, and confront, firmly and without bravado, the harshness of the world that is, from A to Z, ours. Seeking mutual understandings and cooperative and genuine understanding in actions, policies, promotions and strategy designs should lead us to formulate an agenda for the republic and its strengthening. Unavoidable conditions to weather the storm unleashed by American anti-democracy and to be able to display in-depth reflections on what happens to us and happened to us; before new gales hit an edifice of cohesion sustained by weak institutions weakened by the irresponsible use and abuse of a power that was never granted by anyone as absolute.
It is this reconstruction that we have to talk about and soon.
