Step by step, democracy is melting. Collective rights are undermined, and individual rights are ignored, ridiculed. It’s not about Iran, North Korea, Cuba or Venezuela, it’s about Union Europe, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Brazil.

The lie became the truth, and the truth is considered ‘fake news’, a ridiculous expression, distorted from the original context. The ‘fake news’ has become so powerful that any contrary comment or criticism of the global paranoia of stunned governments takes the form of falsification, discredit. Dissenting voices are stereotyped as enemies, critics and disseminators of fabricated news. Either you agree with this outrageous and uncontrollable stupidity or you position yourself in the firing line of the arrogant and labeled politically correct, owners of a supposed “truth”.

The ability to mobilize the masses through watchword paves the way for the irresponsible engagement of the press with fantasies that cause regional and global social, political and economic collapses. Remember of “The State is me” (L’etat c’est moi), “The work frees” (Arbeit macht frei), “American dream” (American way of life), “Always to the victory”, “In the name of democracy”, “The hope conquered fear”, “It was the biggest terrorist attack in the History”, “Arabs attack, Israel answers”, “Stay at home”. Now it’s the “Anti-democratic acts”, “Coup actions”, “Fundamentalist danger” and other expressions framing the picture of shame, ridicule.

Demolished Tripod

The West is demolishing the institutions that have sustained democracy. The educational system of many countries has exchanged education for party-political ideology, and for unbridled profit. In other cases, it simply ignored its importance in the socioeconomic base, making it irrelevant. 

The Judicial systems exchanged honesty, public safety, individual and collective rights for the corrupt interests of judges, prosecutors, public defenders and attorneys. It is the installation of a dictatorship of the judiciary, the “Shyster Republic”, in which values are inverted.

By destroying the credibility of the press, or by imploding itself, the State itself starts to persecute the remaining journalists and encourage the dismantling of the academy that trains professionals for journalism. From this, all are extinct and any possibility of developing critical thinking becomes impossible.

Out of the blue, magistrates, professors, journalists and parliamentarians became “specialists in democracy”. It is laughable amateurs striving to interpret the indefinable. It sounds like American diplomatic policy, which claims to promote democracy around the world. Or even more pathetic, the former East Germany, which called itself a “Democratic Republic” inside a communist cesspool. Democracy is not imposed, it is not promoted, it is simply accepted, otherwise it cannot be called “democracy”. It is necessary to read between the lines of journalistic narratives in order to detect the purposes of textual constructions.

When the self-proclaimed leaders have not learned to dialogue in a civilized manner, the impetus of decrees and authoritarian judicial force establishes a state of police terror, the final measure of the violence of dehumanized ideologies.

Ruben Dargã Holdorf

Doctor in Communication and Semiotics