“Bad weather voting” is the statement starting Essay about clarityBy José Saramago – A novel to vote for an uncertain capital of citizens of unknown people. Now, taking into account the results of this legislation, we face another type of whine: the voting of conscious protests, but the evacuation of the political substance that paves the dilution and symbolism.
Surveys, which are less than four years, the third call, the national political landscape was dramatically required. Decreased in traditional left practically. As they called, “a left dark”, this is parallel to the significant growth of the right level.
That’s what I think using the theoretical means that helps clarify the current moment. Ross Abbinnett explains that the media-technological system radically changed the social dialectical order. The mass media for Baudrillard are in an exclusive state of social stage and there is nothing, including political responsibility and a temporary representation of history outside the operating logic.
The victory of this system in these elections was accurate: policy has already become a sign of a sign, which represents nothing but them. When political leaders speak, what they say, but to call, however they do not matter, to call the image and authorities to call. This is better understandable than anyone, preferred to this grammar, and images that develop a reality that does not exist, but it becomes more “real”.
Christopher Bollas helps you understand the psychology that takes the basis of this transformation. For Bollas, the fascist mental condition is characterized by the presence of a ideology that protects the confidence through special mental mechanisms designed to eliminate all the opposition. Doubts, uncertainty, self-interrogation were weakness, and those who offer simple responses to the best performance, complex problems, complex problems, clear and binary narrates.
But there is something deeper in danger. Felix Guatti’s attention is a desire for fascism that passes the whole society – In a sense, we all want to be a fascist. Fascism, like a foreign force, is not only lowered; This arises from internal desires, repressed drivers, affiliation, community, and the individual self-abolition.
In the current Portuguese reality, we see this dynamics in more than one form. Consider nostalgia for a mythical “Portuguese” so that it is very harmless that seemingly seemingly many nationalist statements. For Portugal “old time” for “old time” – “when ordering”, “when we know who we are”, “when we know who we are”, often hide their desires for the radical simplification of social complexity and the hierarchies. They are definitely not the statements of conscious support to authoritarian regimes, but the symptoms of basic desires with a charter, hierarchy and simplification.
Climbing remote in these elections is fed from these desires. According to “Portugal” and “restoring Portugal” and “return Portugal” and “return Portugal”, they only mobilize deep rooted desires, but spread to society. In this wing, the election growth, without this collective inclination, it would not be possible without this secret driver passing through various segments of the Portuguese society.
The most worried thing is that this fascist desire is traditionally limited to conservative sectors. In the fantasy of the “depolithized” society, “depolitized” society, in the fantasy of the “depolicious” society, “experts”, exists in the fantasy of the “depolicious” society, and the reduction of quantity complexity and indicators. This is available in the algorithms of social networks, such as political and extremism of polarization, entertainment and fundamental ethical problems.
As Deleuze and Guattari warned us and when Michael Peters argued, our daily behaviors fascism in our fascism in our fascism, pleasing and wishing us. “This is not only atrocity and terrorism, as Susan Sontag argues. This is an ideal today: art, beauty, fetishism, manual and manual fetish, manual fetishism; rejection of the intelligence; the human family.
The most concerned about the results of these elections, the Portuguese did not make the fascism clearly elected. This is the difference between democracy and fascism in the context of the postmodern simulakrum. Democratic institutions gradually empty the unloaded content gradually and became simulations. Democratic language is suitable for non-democratic purposes. Rituals of democracy – elections, debates, boxes – continued, but allocated from any anchor in social reality.
What to do in front of this scenario? Undoubtedly, a nostalgia returns to the idealized past that is not available. Perhaps the first step is to recognize the fascism that we live in the United States and multiply in everyday life. To doubt, hesitation may need to be revived to endure uncertainty, complexity and indecision. Probably, we must rediscover a policy that fleeing both postmodern simulacrum and the fascist spectrum.
Portuguese is applied to a deep opposite of the left ordinary conjunctural analysis. It is not enough to relate the defeat of voters to “betrayal” with “betrayal”media en host “or” populist manipulation “. Portugal is required to criticize the hypotheses, languages ​​and practices that manage progressive political action in Portugal. com – and not only side – Famous classes. The divorce between the progressive discussion and the most sensitive strata of the Portuguese society.
It is relevant to develop a consistent criticism of the media and digital platforms, to develop a consistent criticism of political imagination and rediscover the power of joy as political power. Saramago imagined a radical gesture – an empty sound – in response to the degradation of democracy. Now it means to restore our meaning to politics, creating a lot of reigning, and the spectrum of fascism does not find the spectrum of fascism. The bad weather will continue in the voting, no doubt will continue. But maybe we can set up shelters for the storm interstill and democracy – as a collective creation of general life forms, not as possible.
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