Absolutist heritage

Certain newspaper called 'society' which speaks of events and social relevance. I do not mean union or neighborhood events, but rather acts of so-called high society, ie the rich people and high political relevance. These events are characterized by an aesthetic of luxury, where circulating, as I said, people which are occupying high positions in the social scale; mixed in them we can find persons that their degree isn’t achieved through academic merits or how they worked during their lives, but simply by to be born into a particular family. These people which are 'special' they are the lords of old aristocracy world.

Because guillotine was able to clean world of these people neither in France at finish of eighteenth century incredibly. In a globalized meritocracy world or supposedly, these people inherited from feudalism, not only in Europe, remain relevant and influential people. For example, institutions that enjoy a reputation as the IOC* basically  it’s constituted by such people, who have the great merit to have a distant ancestor who was a weapon of mass destruction with legs apart they practiced sometime sport. We might think that much of his influence comes from being rich, and it is true most are extremely wealthy, taking advantage of their old privileges were monopolized much of the wealth and resources; through this now they can occupy positions of power in great companies, institutions and influence policy decisions.

But it is not only the economic power that gives them the possibility of still playing a significant role in society. We can remember names of the great aristocratic families that give name to large corporations, but probably the most known aren’t particularly wealthy, while not suffering from financial problems. Simply continue to occupy important places because them occupied as they say their ancestors and continue the inherited, partly by nepotism but mostly because it keeps aristocratic ruling system in the world. In short, we have entered the XXI century where is preserving the aristocratic structure of the old regime, which clearly should not call old because its validity is running today. 

The most striking is the anachronistic monarchy with different degrees of involvement in the governance of the countries that suffer**. Although state law can’t afford to have citizens with special rights and privileges, I don’t referee that status may have a specific charge but the fact of enjoying privileges and inheritance indefinitely. In meritocratic society kings haven’t reason to be.

On the other hand any states, including the republics, are spared the legacy of absolutism. Population beheaded kings and nobles but the people seize the power but they have maintained the structure of absolute state. We replaced the leadership of the society but the administration has remained the same. In all countries the high civil servants believe that they are the state (as Luis XIV). Today these structures spying on its citizens, moving with hide interests, and they treated as vassals to their citizen. The alleged democratic states are still acting like a time of absolute kings, though they have changed allegiance to the king for the national interest.

As in the era of absolutist kings, our leaders continue ruling behind back to the people that are chosen they. Currently the only thing that differentiates the absolutist king of a country's president is only president must elected every four years. Citizens of democracies worldwide only have the right to choose an absolutist monarch every four years. The democratic deficit that this represents is considerable. Under the premise that if we all vote can’t be governed, today democratic governments don’t ask anything. They decide not to listen (and I don't say to follow) opinion of those who chose them, and challenging voters at the next election to expulse them if voters don't like. 

A curiosity of this current system is Demoscopy. They do not ask anything to citizenship but they legislate to hit of poll. As I have said repeatedly, statistics always answer the question correctly to be asked, but it never answers the question that we seem to ask. So we have plenty of surveys which include questions designed to get a specific answer, or asks for something when it really study what was not asked. In short surveys that are responsible for a band to make them ready for the result that will please those who pay, or it ask with wrong premises. We could conclude that current statistics only serve to feed who have this job, but not reflected in most cases the actual state of the situation just look resounding failures in election polls or level of rejection that often cause policies that were supposed populist. There is no better deceived who is deceiving himself.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Overthrowat once the wall of absolutism

We need a real revolution as the air we breathe. Among other reasons for that old regime succumbed due to its ineffectiveness. A centralized and absolute power can’t, even it has the most sophisticated and powerful computing machine information, take control of everything. In fact they control only a few, and the resulting  of it is the downing in the cascade the absolutism to other small absolutes, and it’s in the context of absolute power exercised by small despots where it has proliferated corruption and arbitrariness. Today we have before us the dismemberment of states, but every absolutist only thing they do is accentuated the fall of absolutism, leading society towards a new Middle Ages. It has been shown that the present society is inoperative, so we must change it and we must forget solutions of the past.

* IOC today is not the issue but in reference to professional sports and structures that form it we should be a deep reflection. As an example say that this structure is formed mainly aristocrats from around the world and descendants of Fascists (yes those of World War II) many times bringing together two origins.

** Suffer, albeit in conceptual form, and even the monarch in question was by a great person, but it hasn’t sense that someone is above the rest of the citizens of a country.