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The article will analyze the relationship between power and liberty by emphasizing the way our contemporary society contains in itself the seed of dystopia. The control over every aspect of human life seems to have become the way liberty and happiness is perceived to be achieved. On the contrary, this same control leads to the actual denial of liberty and happiness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Avatar, a film by James Cameron, is a "curious" example of contrasting socio-political visions: the military and aggressive "Earth vision" and the "Pandora" vision linked to a peaceful community of equals. The contrast between these two civilizations recalls the American colonization. It emphasizes how universal human rights founded on equality in reality allude to a specific type of human being and which leads to the abuses by those who retain themselves superior. The history repeats itself throughout the film and its images denouncing a reality in which inequality reigns supreme. The Avatar instead makes the acceptance of "the Other" as an equal possible (despite "the Other" being different) and it may lead to a coexistence without discriminations where each person (human being) is seen as an equal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Democracy establishes an ideal, a model to which both modernity and post-modernity tend towards for the realization of a world of equals where everyone finds oneself free. A world that needs to consider its origin and its power that it's anchored in the people's will and people's sovereignty. The idea of democracy contains in itself an element of unattainability because it produces its degeneration the moment this ideal translates to reality. We can read democracy as an identity where dualism between people and its representative figure does not exist: the leader and the people thus evoke a populist leadership which on its own turn can represent yet another "deviation" of democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]