Smashing the Western Illusion of Democracy

In these politically turbulent times, the ”illusion of democracy is fading worldwide” as one pundit wrote recently. There is a growing sense, in the West, that democracy is not working well, but there is not yet a full and clear recognition of that fact.

Michel Maffesoli, honorary professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, has been saying already for several years, that “the end of the democratic ideal is manifesting itself”. Signs of this can be seen in the problematic elections that have taken place in his native France and other Western countries.