At other times, politicians didn’t have as much incentive to avoid the truth or take polls. In fact, unstable societies demand this from them. During the long days of the economic crisis, we observed that at best the politically savvy simplified the economy; Those who knew economics were unaware of politics. We continually built apartment buildings with immigrant workers arriving en masse and bought them with loans that were believed to be repayable immediately. However, the ‘subprime’ coup put an end to everything. In those days of the real estate bubble, a handful of politicians are still in prison for theft. The bubble burst when loss of trust among banks choked credit markets. It was numerous columns of smoke with a pyramidal profile.
Then the same thing happened with the independence movement. Now it is the Middle East, yesterday it was Ukraine. There is public debt, the denial of the Pisa reports, and a struggle between the government and the judiciary at every moment. It’s not important. With the fluctuations in the price of a barrel of crude oil, suddenly we all become lawyers, experts in constitutionalism and comparative law. Classics of political analysis have always warned that one of the main tasks of any government (some more, some less) is a smokescreen.
We see expressions and words that lose their semantic meaning in two days. “Dialogue; sit at the table and talk”: as if there were no Congresses of Deputies, municipal plenary sessions, regional parliaments. The same situation happened with post-truth a few years ago. Post-truth is no longer talked about, but its practice is still active, in addition, even vulgarity It is radicalizing and becoming the court of the new truth. Post-truth and smoke climb into the digital fluid of social networks, adding layers of fragility, obsolescence and one-dimensionality. In parallel, artificial intelligence is circulating fictional faces, 100% fake news. Next are the votes. Everything, if you will. It comes to your iPhone screen, it’s a self-referential ecosystem.
Post-truth has predecessors such as ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, a satanic forgery about a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. It became an example of totalitarianism, the most serious metastasis of the 20th century. In their feedback, it is stated that the two great totalitarian systems of the 20th century needed a fundamental post-truth: Lenin This was the capture of the Winter Palace; for Hitler, Reichstag fire. Before, there were not even half a dozen prisoners in the Bastille. Post-truth is once again in the service of revolutionary myth.
Tocqueville He proclaimed a new despotism, a kind of tyranny, a calm force that does not cut off wills but softens them. The selfishness connection distorts the idea of the common good. Let us be unaware of the fate of others. We do not have or do not see our fellow citizens, and we do not want to know them. This is the risk of a ‘soft’ despotism. Undisputed. Sweet monster. A large community of equal and similar people, egos pursuing small and vulgar pleasures, are directly opposite to the desire for truth and the will to knowledge. We are already false communities, bubbles of sentimentality, misleading identities, networks of evil, as well as inexhaustible sources of information. This is the cause and effect of the smoke policy. It is not surprising that the political chimney sweep is a professional figure with a great future.