model of government and the world was converging towards that point. the protesters in the streets from athens to cairo to zuccotti park have showed that the word democracy is not enough. the devils of representation are in its details. remember, those in the streets of tie rear lived in a country that was according to its rulers a democracy. it had elections and a parliament. the emergency laws under which the country had been ruled for decades meant it was a democracy in name only. people that put their lives on the line were doing it to turn the word into reality. democracy in name is not enough. without the agitation of ordinary citizens, without mass movements, democracy can so easily come to be an empty signifier, a streng of letters that points to nothing more than a status quo where power is concentrated in the hands of a few. for democracy to be real, it must be dynamic, ever-evolving, challenged to be more democratic