Today’s cultural imagination has little room for the idea of the history-making potential of humanity. On the contrary there has been a fundamental shift towards a world view where people are almost entirely written out of history. There has never been a time since the Middle Ages where the human species has been accorded such an insignificant status in the making of history.

Today’s cultural imagination has little room for the idea of the history-making potential of humanity. On the contrary there has been a fundamental shift towards a world view where people are almost entirely written out of history. There has never been a time since the Middle Ages where the human species has been accorded such an insignificant status in the making of history.

Challenging the claim that democracy is a means to an end rather than an important value in and of itself.