As Ernst Jünger assures, every generation can be said to have lived its Titanic, no age can escape its madness. But now times are speeding up and generations are barely closing the decade. The prematurely aging political passions reproduced by Mimesis change direction when the wind blows. You must not miss us. Throughout his memoirs, John Lukacs did not tire of explaining that the dominant Nazism in his hometown of Budapest had turned into communism in a matter of hours. It’s always been like this: ideas catch on instantly because they sound good and, above all, because they’re interesting at the time. For this reason, it is as important to swear by “legal obligation” as to swear for world peace or climate alert. Rituals always and everywhere perform the soothing function that tradition (and neuroscience, if we pay attention to biology) gives them. While political power continues with its enthusiasm to build castles from playing cards and then destroy them, each generation has its own Titanic – and we’ve already had a few -. The alternative is boredom, which is a form of cynicism like any other. It’s understandable anyway. If a diet high in carbohydrates and fats causes all sorts of metabolic diseases, from diabetes to hypertension, current knowledge is that overdose creates another type of fatigue, which quickly leads to disconnection.
We have passed from the generation that emerged in 15-M and said to be one of the most politicized and blatantly leftists in history, to another educated on social networks called fachatubers and voting. it seems – largely to Vox. Of course, this fashion will pass; As with the process in Catalonia, although there is always a remnant of disappointment and a trace of pain that has been engraved on the soul or conscience of the citizen.
Today United We Can may find themselves immersed in a path of disintegration; Like a spring rain, the Basque and Catalan independence movement awaits the arrival of a right-wing government that will allow them to resort to their usual victimization factories; To avoid defeat, Sánchez must set off the much-lauded anti-fascist alert; and Núñez Feijóo to reject sanchismo messages – here I manage with Vox, there I support PSC – trying to balance the policy of agreement. Politics thus became a story factory where the most trivial thing was to draw attention to the real discomfort of society and even to allow it to emerge. You have to fill the public space with noise to create a relevant climate that will one day explode and leave us exposed.
One month before the general elections, it is useful to get away from the competition and look at the stage from a distance. Better to sin with phlegm than to sin otherwise, better not to believe than to fall into naivete. In his acclaimed work on World War I, The Sleepwalkers, Christopher Clark reflects on the enormous impact of propaganda in improving war morale in the different countries involved. In the future, some historians will have to analyze our time from a similar perspective: the damage done to us by politics, the destruction caused by propaganda.
Source: Informacion
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