Wednesday, January 03, 2024

A WORLD OF FANTASISTS LEAD BY A LAWLESS ELITE

Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists ... We have an economy that depends not on the quality and quantity of necessary goods and services, but on the moods of a few stockbrokers. We believe that democratic freedom can be preserved by people ignorant of the history of democracy and indifferent to the responsibilities of freedom.

Our leaders have been for many years as oblivious to the realities and dangers of their time as were George III and Lord North. They believe that the difference between war and peace is still the overriding political difference—when, in fact, the difference has diminished to the point of insignificance. How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry—between, say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is “accepted” as a “trade-off.”

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Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were, in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

Wendell Berry

UN MUNDO DE FANTASIOSOS LIDERADO POR UNA ÉLITE SIN REGLAS 

fantasioso, sa 

De fantasía 'presunción'. 

1. adj. Que se deja llevar por una imaginación carente de fundamento. U. t. c. s. 

Sin.: soñador, imaginativo, inventivo, creativo, idealista, iluso, fantaseador. 

Ant.: realista, objetivo. 

2. adj. coloq. Vano, presuntuoso. 

Sin.: vano, presuntuoso, fatuo, vanidoso, creído. 

Ant.: sencillo, modesto, humilde. Sinónimos o afines de fantasioso, sa soñador, imaginativo, inventivo, creativo, idealista, iluso, fantaseador. vano, presuntuoso, fatuo, vanidoso, creído. 

Antónimos u opuestos de fantasioso, sa realista, objetivo. sencillo, modesto, humilde. 

La antropóloga Mary Douglas (Los símbolos naturales) atribuye el milenarismo y antiritualismo a los movimientos de rebelión social sin clasificaciones diferenciadoras.

Actualmente son, sin embargo, en el mundo occidental, característicos de las élites no sujetas a reglas: es su vía para sofocar cualquier acceso al control de los símbolos y diferenciaciones traicionados.

Douglas señaló que la "magia es producto del control social" y "constituye así un barómetro de la legitimidad política" (a mayor "magia" menos legitimidad). Lo que no podía imaginar es que pudiera constituir un recurso al servicio de las élites occidentales.

La magia o las magias  de la deuda sin límite, de la pureza ecológica y la energía limpia, de la guerra de liberación, de la salud no individual, de la desinstitucionalización y la renuncia al derecho ...

Este aspecto antropológico sigue a las observaciones de Carl Schmitt sobre las élites políticas:


"YOU MUST THEN KEEP YOUR PACE CLOSE TO THE ELITE'S ONE IN EACH MOMENT.BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE INTO ACCOUNT THE FOLLOWING:

1) TODAY'S ELITE IS NOT YESTERDAY'S ELITE AND MUCH LESS TOMORROW'S AND THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW ELITE

2) ELITE ARE THOSE WHO PAY LESS TAXES WITH MORE INCOME

3) ELITE ARE THOSE WHO CAN OBLIGE OTHERS TO FULFILL FORMS AND PETITIONS.ELITE ARE THOSE WHO CAN DEMAND INDEMNITIES FROM THEIR VICTIMS

4) ELITE ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT SEEK JUSTICE IN COURTS AND WHO ARE NOT AFRAID OF BEING BROUGHT TO COURT DUE TO THEIR WRONGDOINGS

(EPSTEIN LIST)

5) ELITE ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT NEED TO SEEK PASSPORTS FROM THE POLICE

6) ELITE ARE THOSE WHOSE SOCIOLOGY NO ONE DARES TO WRITE. ELITE ARE THOSE WHO CHARGE OTHERS WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT BEING CHARGED BY OTHERS

(EPSTEIN LIST)

7) ELITE ARE THOSE WHO CAN RESIST "TU QUOQUE""

(EPSTEIN LIST)

CS

(JULY 22, 1948)

 

 

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