In the footsteps of Plato…

One of the essential themes that I explored in my academic work and continue to pick-away at in my fiction is the whole concept of how the current Western ideals of democracy impinges on freedom at a personal and collective level. As a gatekeeper of social cohesion, democracy operates through imposing subtle, and not so subtle spheres of control that are misleadingly spun as the noble act of quid pro quo.

Strip away the cynical political declarations that turn on or off that hallowed brand of...