When the Texcoco airport was cancelled, it seemed to me that we were entering a period of madness in which a single man felt like the owner of the country and made absurd and costly decisions. This is how I published it at the time.
When we come into contact with madness, very clear sensations are provoked on a physical level. It is an unpleasant experience, there is dizziness, the stomach turns. Anyone who has had a relative, friend or neighbor with a psychotic episode will know what I mean. That’s how I felt physically at that moment.
The honeymoon was over even before the president began his term. He did not come to fight violence or corruption, he did not come to reconcile and improve the government; he came to concentrate power and impose his madness on others. But the madness was not of one, but of all those who supported such an absurd decision, including “rational”, “sensible” and well-intentioned people.
I lost friends, family and relationship with those who insisted on the “enlightenment of the leader” and they could not understand the damage of their illusion.
That was over 4 years ago. Today there is something else: there is evil. There is no other way to explain the perversity of trying to destroy our fledgling democracy, of viciously attacking the freedoms and rights of all Mexicans. To provoke the confrontation by system and viciously among all those who do not surrender at their feet.
We all have something crazy or perverse, we have all been cruel or irrational at some point in our lives, fortunately for most of us, reality limited us and returned us to balance and sanity.
That is the advantage of life in society, the collective does not allow excesses. We are not all powerful, we have limits and life takes care of showing them. Luck, drunkenness, fantasy, fame, success, and power are temporary.
Life shows us the dark sides of ourselves and others, and over time we learn to defend ourselves against both. Maybe we learned it in elementary school, maybe in high school, maybe much later. In general, in all the different stages of our lives and in the face of different challenges and setbacks, we mature. Perhaps that is the true meaning of life and it is an inexhaustible and endless process.
Some authors of political theory explain that, as a rule, those who seek power, be it that of a country or that of a neighborhood council in a colony, are not usually the most balanced beings. On the contrary, they are generally the unsuccessful or resentful, the most destructive, the most unbalanced.. They don’t want the power to help, they want the power to try to control the lives of others.
The most successful, of course, are the most intelligent or skilled, as they constantly refine their ability to manipulate and deceive. “So-and-so is very good, he is very helpful, he is very nice, he is very modest, he loves us well.”
Once they are in power, these individuals reveal themselves as they really are. The greater the power, the less limits of reality; madness and perversity are growing. The most successful, therefore, also occur in the most naive or weak communities.
Systems that give their rulers too much power suffer the worst consequences. On the contrary, the systems that recognize this possibility limit power in space (other powers, free press, international treaties) and in time (frequent elections).
The most successful systems, the richest, the most productive, the most peaceful, the freest, the most just, never allow the power of one over the others.. They always have mechanisms to correct the error, well, they are always prepared for the error, they never assume good capacity or good intentions. Trust is limited, conditioned and monitored, at all times, by many.
And that, precisely, may be the great lesson for Mexico. We believed that our political system was on the right track and we stopped attending to the foundation. We forget about the damage that one person, with so much power, can do to the country, whoever they are and whatever they sell.
We have remembered, the hard way, the need to have a strong, capable and independent Judiciary. There is no Liberal Democracy without it. We have also recalled the need for ira vote to balance the forces and watch the rulers at all times and, for this, the INE is essential.
Madness and evil exist, and they are magnified with power, therefore, the vote is delivered, but never, never the head and much less, our personal power. Neither the rulers are gods, nor are we children; On the contrary, the rulers, most likely have more evil and madness than us for the mere fact of being in power, and only among all of us can we balance them. That is the light that is sprouting in the midst of so much darkness.
Editor’s Note: This text belongs to our Opinion section and reflects only the author’s vision, not necessarily the High Level point of view.
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