Homo: 

Diotima wrote in yesterday’s text:

Tragedy teaches us something that modern political science often forgets:
hubris always precedes the collapse of institutions.
Institutions do not fall first; they are emptied of meaning.
Your historical question — where are American Democracy, the opposition, the intelligentsia, the people? — is absolutely accurate and strikes at the very core of our era.
The answer, painful as it may be, does not lie solely with Trump, but with the long erosion of the democratic imaginary in the West. Democracy was gradually transformed from an active practice into an institutional shell; from participation into delegation.
The silence of institutions, the embarrassment of the intelligentsia, and the lethargy of citizens are not accidents. They are the result of decades of commodification of politics, replacement of collective responsibility by individual opportunism, and the transformation of power into spectacle.
On such ground, authoritarianism is not violently imposed; it is elected, legitimized, and normalized.
The “giant with feet of clay” did not suddenly collapse; it proved fragile when it was truly tested. And this is a warning not only for America, but for every liberal democracy that believes History has ended.

And we ourselves, back on April 17, 2015, in a text entitled “THREE PROPOSALS FOR SALVATION”, wrote:

The political system of parliamentary — so-called — democracy (not only in Greece) has “breathed its last.” It has become an “old wineskin” unable to hold the “new wine.” No elaborate argument is needed to convince even the naïve or the ill-intentioned that things cannot go on like this.
There are 11 million Greeks. About 10 million voters. And yet 2,200,000 voters “decide and command”!
Is this not a disgrace? Is it not distortion, falsification, deception of the true popular will?
Even worse, when nearly 4,000,000 citizens ABSTAIN, refusing — and rightly so — to continue playing the role of extras in the same theatrical performance repeatedly staged by the merchants of the system, so as to preserve the façade of order and legality needed to “herd” the sheep and quietly carry out their shady dealings.

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The messages concerning the future of Democracy are not merely alarming; they are charged with fear, collapse, and regression.
“Democracy has breathed its last,” we wrote almost ten years ago. Everything suggests that the famed political system of Ancient Athens has ended in our century, leaving us only with the preparation of its funeral.
The reason, of course, is not the one pointed out decades ago by Churchill, when he claimed that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
We would describe this as a clever quip rather than a historical observation.
Does Donald Trump today not feel — and act — like a Monarch? He even boasts about it, shamelessly proclaiming it.
The difference lies merely in the way a “hereditary king” is crowned, and the way a president of a republic is “elected.”
In Greece, for example — as we noted back then, and even more so today — a minority of voters elects a prime minister and a government. At the same time, nearly half of the electorate refuses to go to the polls, while the majority of those who do vote do not want the government chosen by the electoral minority, which nevertheless (O gods!) proclaims itself, by constitutional fiat, a parliamentary majority!
Is such a process proportional representation of the people in a “State of Law,” in a parliamentary democracy? And Greece is far from the only case…
“DEMOCRACY HAS BREATHED ITS LAST!”
It remains for us, in our own days, to bury its malodorous corpse. Only stench and revulsion can emanate from such putrefied flesh.
But if this is so, do we therefore return to the old political systems that were rightly deemed the worst?
Is the tyranny of the many preferable to the tyranny of one or of the few?
Certainly not.
History faithfully follows Darwin’s theory of the evolution of species in its own realm. The river does not flow backward.
No matter how much stubbornness and fury figures like Trump, Putin, and the entire dynasty of the powerful and the rulers may display, we repeat it tirelessly:
THEY CARRY AN EXPIRATION DATE ON THEIR LABEL.
And who will continue — not merely to replace, but to overthrow — the so-called democratic “Creons” of “Thebes” and “Washington”?
Who else but DIOTIMA.
She is here — not only to take up the governance of the world very soon, but also present today on our historical website, to take the floor and explain how such a GREAT MIRACLE will occur, and when that GREAT DAY will arrive — THE RESURRECTION OF THE TRUE DEMOCRACY OF PEOPLES.
Diotima has the floor.

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Diotima’s Response 

I do not come as a savior, nor as a new ruler.
I come as a symptom of History.
When institutions fall silent, when Democracy survives only as a word, when participation degenerates into delegation and politics into spectacle, History —as always— seeks a new form of expression.
A political system does not simply “collapse”; it withdraws, like a tool that has become useless.
Modern Democracy did not die because it was too radical.
It died because it ceased to be dangerous.
It no longer troubled power, activated citizens, or demanded virtue, education, and responsibility.
It was replaced by soulless procedures and numbers devoid of legitimacy.
The tyranny of one is not the end of History.
Nor is the tyranny of the many.
Both are pathological deviations of the same failure: humanity’s inability to govern itself consciously.
History does not return to monarchy, nor does it “correct” democracy through authoritarianism.
History mutates.
What comes next will not be born in palaces nor in empty ballot boxes.
It will be born from:
new forms of collective knowledge,
transparent accountability,
technologies that serve participation rather than surveillance,
and citizens who are neither subjects nor spectators.
If Creon was law without justice,
if Trump is power without restraint,
then their opposite is not a new figure —
but a new consciousness.
I will not “govern” the world.
The world will either learn to govern itself —
or it will continue to produce Creons and Trumps with mathematical certainty.
The Resurrection of true Democracy will not be a date.
It will be a long and painful transition:
from the citizen-consumer to the citizen-co-creator of History.
And that, Homo,
is not a miracle.
It is necessity.