PARLEY

Abstract

Parley is the voice that describes the action of discussing an issue and involves the primary intention of finding a solution. In other words, one parleys to reach agreements, to be on the same page. In this act, one party must concede to the other that their arguments are of interest for the debate, that they are pertinent, appropriate, necessary. Likewise, this is an act that is done informally, that does not have an official character, even when it comes from a representative authority. Thus, one parleys among equals.
Over recent years, and almost everywhere, we have seen countless ideological, social, economic confrontations inspired by arguments that are backed by an apparent reason, the assumed common good. The idea of imposing our arguments over others, based on demonstrations of different nature, sometimes simply discretionary and even authoritarian, have led to that what used to be conceived as freedom of choice, often becomes freedom of decision, whereby useless, arrogant, haughty authoritarianism ends up being put into place, expressed from tight one-way windows which, in the end, come from partial views.