To transform our society into a democracy, we first have to dismantle the myth of democracy as currently defined. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)

Do human relations boil down to competition, combat and promotion of one's self-interest? Henry Giroux offers an antidote to the TINA (there is no alternative) worldview and a democracy that has organized itself around war and its culture and language of injustice and cruelty.