This of Spain and was passed. The statement is a bit exaggerated but only intends to capture the idea of \u200b\u200ba certain historical continuity between our country's current situation and past situations. Finding that connection I read a book in the history of Spain, in principle neutral, in which there are certain historical constants in politics, society and the English economy, which has been repeated for centuries until today. As Twain said "History does not repeat but rhyme."
Seeking the causes of economic disaster in which we are engaged, although I think you could always Emperor-beyond external cause, I found a number of constants that are repeated or rhyming throughout history, kings of incompetence, subject the economy to some whim of religion or territory, without planning or foresight, a dominant and powerful church which acts as a wall or bulwark against change and innovation at all levels of ignorance and endemic anafabetismo encouraged people from up for more domination and control, although initiatives such as the Free Institution of Education fought the problem during the Second Republic; a constant contempt for knowledge and scientific advancement, remember the famous "let them invent" the intellectual elite out of the country or folded into power, a central role of the army, with the familiar actions of a party in the past century, control and excruciating politicization of the press, which is very clear today, the last two centuries also shows the lack of order or economic planning, and finally, the country has always shown great sensitivity to external issues, such as we see today with the situation in Libya and oil dependency.
The worst part is that the country always, by the above factors, has shown an underdeveloped civil society, some democratic and political ignorance and weakness of the civil power which has resulted in a constant domain from above from the elite, ie, in Spain a long time that political decisions, it seems that even in democracy, imposed from the top down, vertically, and not respecting the political programs that lead citizens to support a party concrete.
Not far during the crisis, the public has been able to mass demonstrations against the measures that have further slowed the English welfare state, unlike the French or English for example, it seems to me a clear sign of immaturity social, civic and political, as we are leaving everything to the discretion of a governing legal capacity, who are increasingly alienated from the public and are very poorly valued by her, partly because of their own worthlessness inbreeding, since the parties do not promote themselves competitive ideas and meritocracy, but the tail-sheepish to maintain the institutional position, which not avoided by a few bases due to the low participation of citizens in the English parties, which is around three percent of the population. Seeing the old, but current services of the English question is, who can you wonder what is happening? How can we expect of citizens mobilizing to reclaim their rights and dignity? What future can wait for a country with such defects democratic, economic and social?
