6. SUMMARY

The time of the great social reforms to rid citizens of the remnants of feudalism, which have justified all the great revolutions in history, has long since ended. With it, the traditional ideologies that promoted them disappear. In the youth revolts of May '68, to whose generation I belong, the need to completely renovate a democratic system that gave its first signs of decline and its inability to effectively, transparently and honestly manage the citizens' interests. Young people back then tried to experiment with new "alternative" political and democratic models, but they were more imaginative than realistic. "Imagination to power" was then our slogan. But the time for change had not yet come. By then communism and capitalism were in full swing and competing for wperialist and militaristic tactics to dominate a world made up of a minorityof educated and wealthy nations, exploiting and squeezing a vast majority of uneducated, superstitious, and horribly impoverished and backward nations.

At that time, the nations of the so-called "Third World" were disconnected from the outside world and resignedly endured their destitution, dominated by national tyrants who considered themselves the state's owners and lords. The world was not yet globalized. In the midst of the sordid roar of the cold war, the so-called "Free World" tried to win adherents by exporting its confused liberal and capitalist ideology. To do this, it convinced national tyrants to establish democratic multiparty systems. In return, the would-be candidates to receive large investments and loans for "development" granted by rich countries. Tyrants quickly understood that they could implement democracy without changing their tyranny one iota. For this, it was enough to create an "official" political party and invest a few million, taken from the meager national treasury, in electoral propaganda, with which they won by absolute majority one election after another. It seemed enough to the free world, and they considered them related to their ideology, exchanging official visits at the highest level, with magazines of troops, national anthems, and grandiose speeches of praise for having embraced the cause of freedom and democracy.

But so much hypocrisy had to generate, sooner or later, an explosion of social outrage, and this is where the new media of the digital age intervene.

Both the Internet and mobile telephony are the first advanced technologies created by wealthy nations, but which can be easily assimilated by the poor. And this is the great novelty that makes history, because its massive use, especially among urban middle-class youth, is from a rich, poor country, or simply suddenly impoverished by some economic crisis, as in the case of Spain, is where this movement of “indignation” will arise, which will lead them to take to the streets, and camp in emblematic squares, to try to change this unfortunate state of affairs at its roots.

Through social networks, they exchange the reasons for their outrage and denounce the battered state of their merely formal democracies, which not only deprive them of fundamental rights and which they consider natural but also accuse them of being the cause of their crises. At one point, messages are exchanged with calls to show their discontent, and one or two fundamental slogans are agreed, but the most significant will be "Real democracy now!". The slogan will drag parties and ideologies from the political scene as the matter is dragged into a black hole, quickly and without leaving a trace of both.