Odious comparisons IX – Rule of the People

This is what democracy means, etymologically at least. I do not want to debate whether it actually happens so in practice, because we could spend months to reach any conclusion in this regard.

But I wanted to comment on democracy. Although it is taboo to speak critically of democracy, because we all know the alternative systems that have proved most unfair and even cruel, I think it is useful to note the things that could be improved.

 

Answered Questions III - Left or right-wing

Are you left or right-winger? No, do not answer yet. Besides the already questionable need to position ourselves above all and before all, the question itself is tricky if we want to be precise.

'Left' or 'right' is just a colloquial term, which gathers preferences and trends we have on the political, economic, social, religious and even philosophical views of the world in which we live. Then we put them altogether, mix and make two piles crossed by a line: on one side, the left and the other, right.

I know many will say that they are in the middle of the line, or even beyond that line, but that this is not a question of a single dimension. (Do not get upset with me those who know the subject in much greater depth than I).