Metastasis of Liquid Society “The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for […]
The Decline of Modern Democracies Read Post »
A strategic reading through Umberto Eco’s critique of bureaucratic simulacra and the liquid society. Government systems are human creations. And as such, they are fallible, corruptible, deformable, decadent and ultimately collapsible. History does not call for alarmism, but for lucidity. When examined carefully, it reveals a recurring pattern of institutional exhaustion. The current global architecture
The Terminal Crisis of International Institutions Read Post »
A geopolitical reading of managed decline and the demand for renewed sovereignty in Munich 2026 Three Hundred Years of European Decline From Jonathan Swift to Marco Rubio If Jonathan Swift, the satirist behind Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal, were to inhabit the office and voice of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2026,
European Governance Under Strategic Critique: Marco Rubio’s Structural Challenge Read Post »
How short-term political survival and ideological rigidity are eroding democratic institutions across Europe and Latin America Across democracies and authoritarian regimes alike, a subtle but persistent pattern is emerging. Institutions are not collapsing overnight. They are eroding gradually, under the combined weight of political self-righteousness, bureaucratic inertia and ideological rigidity. This phenomenon is not confined
Institutional Decay and the Politics of Slow Collapse Read Post »
From Argentina to the United Kingdom and Venezuela: how the logic of contraction turns prosperous economies into zero-sum systems Induced underdevelopment and managed decline: the global pattern of extractive societies From Argentina to the United Kingdom and Venezuela: how the logic of contraction turns prosperous economies into zero-sum systems Lilliputian societies are groups of people
Induced Underdevelopment and Managed Decline: The Global Pattern of Extractive Societies Read Post »
From the Critique of Political Economy to the Construction of New State Ideologies: A Strategic Analysis of Marxism and Its Contemporary Derivations The False Promise of Marx Marx claimed that social science truly begins only when we tear away the veil of ideology. For him, everything related to human society was ideological. While he applied
The demolisher of ideologies and father of the most perverse one Marx: Critique of Ideology and False Consciousness To understand why Marx was so critical of “ideology,” we must first strip the word of its modern connotation. Today, we use “ideology” as a synonym for a “system of ideas.” For Marx, however, ideology was something
IDEOLOGY: CORRUPTION AND STATE PLUNDER Read Post »
The Latin American experience as a case study within a broader global pattern of crony capitalism and kleptocracy Ideology often functions as a disguise for organized systems of appropriation. Ideology has been defined as a structured set of ideas reflecting a rigid worldview, codified into a doctrinal body designed to establish channels of influence and
Ideology and State Capture: How Political Narratives Conceal Structural Corruption Read Post »
Which leaders are we talking about? The cost of “banality” The worst effect of these leaders is not the money they appropriate (which is considerable), but the opportunity cost. While these societies debated political or criminal responsibility for Cristina’s handbags, Maduro’s birds, Fernández’s parties at the Olivos presidential residence, or the legal proceedings against Sánchez’s
THE RANKING OF USELESS PRESIDENTS Read Post »
A critical examination of contemporary presidents and governments in Europe and Latin America during the first quarter of the 21st century The legacy of the useless doesn’t disappear, it simply blends in. In this new era they ignore, they are doubly dangerous: useless and contagious. A marketing lie elevated Mujica to the status of leader
The Crisis of Western Political Leadership: Demagoguery, Power and Institutional Decay Read Post »