Ruled by the Shadows: Shakespeare, Populism and the Democratic Tragedy

“The real revolutionary act of our time is not to applaud the strident leaders, but to recover common sense and civic consciousness.” Alert! Let us prevent the “crazy” from guiding the “blind.” Quoting William Shakespeare, with the speech of his character, the Count of Gloucester: “It is the calamity of these times that the madmen guide the blind,” he refers to a situation of chaos and disorder, in which people with lack of judgment or knowledge…