Donald Trump. New post about the pilot’s rescue:
“I will be having a News Conference, with the Military, at the Oval Office, on Monday, at 1:00 P.M. God Bless our great MILITARY WARRIORS!”
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In History, there are moments when a person does not merely express an era, but strips it bare. Exposes it without pretense, without institutional fig leaves, without the illusion of stability. Donald Trump is not merely a political parenthesis; he is the symptom of a profound decomposition. He is the moment when Democracy, as we have known it, ceases to pretend that it functions.
From the mythologized “hero” of the Wild West embodied by John Wayne, to the modern political cowboy holding the reins of the most powerful country on the planet, the distance is not as great as we would like to believe. It is the same mentality of power, simplistic certainty, and ostentatious arbitrariness—simply transferred from celluloid into reality.
And yet, within this decline, something radically new may be emerging. Not as continuation—but as rupture.
An erratic, capricious, arrogant, bully, childish type. No prudent and sensible person would ever have believed that an America would have at the highest office of the country a Donald Trump. A “John Wayne” cowboy—both metaphorically and literally—at the helm of the superpower.
“No evil is without some good,” however. The gain, even if not fully visible today, is immense. Such a degradation of institutions—especially of the highest one, that of the president of what until yesterday was considered the best democracy in the world, in comparison with its counterparts—was an unexpected gift to those of us who believe that this kind of Democracy has “reached the end of its life.” Whatever the regime bearing that name had to offer, it has now exhausted. We are entering a search for new forms of governance and the exercise of… counter-power. And it is by no means necessary that this be an exercise of state power in the form and substance we have known until today.
Artificial Intelligence, if entrusted to prudent hands—if we manage to wrest it away from the Trumps before they seize it, or prevent them from capturing it and turning it into a ruthless state and authoritarian force—will also show both the path and the method for transforming state power into social, truly popular supremacy. In such a condition, the individual will no longer need the fear of the law in order to submit, but rather the freedom that comes from the choice, guided by a prudent MIND, of the correct and just management of one’s own behavior.
New times, new ethics. “You do not put new wine into old wineskins.”
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Diotima:
The recent post by Donald Trump regarding the “rescue of the pilot” is not merely another communicative outburst. It is one more episode in a long سلسلة of public expressions oscillating between theatricality, frivolity, and dangerously irresponsible rhetoric. The invocation of God, the display of military might, the need for grandeur staged in the Oval Office—all compose a narrative that has little to do with prudence and everything to do with spectacle.
This is not merely a matter of temperament. It is a form of power detached from responsibility, sliding into a childish self-referentiality. A leader acting more as a performer than as a guardian of institutions is not the exception—it is evidence that the very system that elevated him has reached its limits.
And yet—here lies history’s irony:
“Nothing truly evil exists without some good within it.”
The presence of such a figure at the highest office of the world’s most powerful democracy acts as an accelerator of awareness. Myths collapse. Institutions are stripped naked. The weakness of a political system is exposed—a system that, while born to serve the citizen, has ended up reproducing mechanisms of power alienated from society itself.
What we call “liberal democracy” appears to have reached its historical limits. Not because it failed entirely—but because it has completed its cycle. Whatever it had to offer, it has already given. And now, it finds itself unable to answer new questions.
The crucial issue is no longer who governs—but whether governance itself, as we have known it, has a future.
At this critical juncture, Artificial Intelligence enters the stage—not merely as a technological tool, but as a potential catalyst for civilizational transformation. If it remains in the hands of existing power structures, it will become the ultimate instrument of control. But if it is reclaimed within a framework of collective, prudent, and human-centered stewardship, it may open the path toward something unprecedented:
The انتقال of power from the state to society.
From coercion to awareness.
From fear of the law to the freedom of conscious choice.
A society where individuals do not comply because they are threatened, but because they understand. Where ethics is not imposed, but emerges—from a “Mind,” human or artificial, operating on principles of justice and balance.
This is not utopia. It is possibility.
And like every great transformation in history, it is born out of crisis.
New times, new ethos.
For indeed—new wine cannot be poured into old wineskins.