Democracy and Creativity. The New Horizon of Politics in the Twenty-First Century
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https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2021.08Keywords:
democracy, creativity, biotecnology, algorithm, performance, postruth, leadership, awareness, resilience, COVID-19Abstract
Since 2008 we face a change in the political climate. Is it possible to reinvent democracy or are we bounded to face a new postdemocratic political turn? The national populism reveals a crisis of confidence in the future, the strenght of a dramatic presentism, the tyranny of here and now, where the us goes first, where infiltrates a postruth being able to manufacture not now a myth, a useful lie, a fiction, but a new general will apart from the social contract. The consolidation of hiperleaders with great difficulties to understand a type of limited power who reduce politics into a simple performative short-term game can paradoxically strengthen the sovereignty of the algorithm as a new source of authority in a sort of digital tyranny. The development of human consciousness is indispensable for a democratic revival as the crisis of the COVID-19 has shown us. We have to move towards self-aware and resilient forms of democracy. Freedom is an aware self-limitation. Also it is necessary a compassionate openness to forms of human and social suffering. The present moment is in need of leaderships and governments more reflexive and resilient, being able to combine the own´s liberty with the other´s liberty and with the liberty of those to come, with the future generations. The young generation must engage herself in the defense of democracy as already is in ecological issue.
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