Bernard sho At his birthday party, already very famous and famous, he used the following joke - Now we will plant a tree here that was previously planted. - which is a deadly illustration of the cynical way in which current capitalism in crisis functions. It is not necessary to demolish what already exists in order to build something new, but, on the contrary, to raise the new from the old as some kind of hybrid object, or, simply, to leave everything to exist as a pure illusion, an idea waiting for wealthy investors to realize it from possibility into reality.
For the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a real treat is a state in a capital collapse, in a systemic breakdown that in most cases occurs as a consequence of an economic crash. That is when these supranational institutions come into play, and under companies help, create the scenario we saw in the case of Greece: allowing the corrupt host and his administration that runs the country to become overly indebted, and thus lead them into debt slavery from which they can never be extricated, but there is certainly a solution for that too. Namely, renting or selling islands that are popular summer resorts. With such an approach to Greece, we have seen the following: Europe is run by banks and supranational financial organizations, all the more so, indeed, everything on which the continent is based, including the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Modernity, so much heritage is disappearing in the face of the currency virus.
Another example is Germany's enormous debt to the NATO alliance, so that the leading country of the European Union must unquestioningly carry out everything it receives as an ally in the form of orders. The matter is obvious, so it is not seen due to its obviousness (I would say lacan): for global capital, each, therefore, sovereign, self-organized, economically prosperous and militarily strong (is Žižek Due to this outcome in Ukraine, he did not say that the country should be supplied with nuclear weapons, because it suffered betrayal from the very people without whose help it could not have endured the war) the state is not only not desirable but also represents hostility, therefore, a strategy of weakening is immediately adopted, which ultimately results in the complete abolition of domestic and foreign policy.
Let us ask this question: since we are witnessing that it is being widely carried out privatization of the public, we are left to wonder whose capital the liberal and leftist, as well as right-wing, mouthpieces are actually working for? We surely don't believe in the volunteerism, enthusiasm and enthusiasm of those who have, in fact, shaped public opinion for the past twenty or more years, and belonged to the - striking force mediologySo, it is wrong to ask who are those who are so happy about the closure of USAID, but rather: why is the USA doing this? And which agencies will it finance in the future and, above all, which global attitudes, since there are millions of contractors for such work.
What, however, if the famous self-blaming moment of European intellectuals (we know: the super-ego functions in such a way that the more we try to be in line with the Other, the less we succeed, and as a result, a nightmarish guilt develops in us, or even, as it is said, Freud: The moment a man begins to doubt his life and his worth, he becomes sick.), is it just a trick, a show for the masses, or simply unacceptable cynicism? We certainly have a different view, according to which such a thing is not only ineffective but also completely unnecessary, especially since it leads to a dead end, because lamenting Europe's colonial past means absolutely nothing. However, if we have already accepted the role and are giving moralizing sermons and criticisms, we are, by the way, playing a role that is very popular with the younger generations without any basis, woke subversive, those who operate outside the mainstream scene responsible for creating ideological substance, it remains questionable from which fund our libertarian thinking is inspired, especially since no capital has ever and will ever favor equality, freedom, human rights, etc.
The philosopher of a very successful book The power of disobedience (intellectual and biopolitician), returns to the old question which is: What have intellectuals ever done for the world?? He goes through the purpose of the existence of the Center, which operates internationally with Director Žižek at the helm, who has placed support for the vision according to which - Politics is too serious a matter to be left to politicians., but, yes, however, the task of intellectuals remains to shed light on political decisive moves. However, as the Center first dealt with the deconstruction of philosophy Jacques Derride, this was met with ridicule and indignation, because it was interpreted as esoteric elitism, a work that does not need media hype (because, let's add, we): who the hell cares these days how, from whom, for whom, when, I will learn to live? - although that is the par excellence ethical question that opens at the beginning of Derrida's book Marx's ghosts.
Truth and the intellectual
In a super-technological, biopolitically powerful, networked world, where no more than a dozen corporations exert a decisive influence through their actions on the global market - where the process of commodification of our lives is clearly visible - it should be acknowledged that the work of the intellectual is increasingly neglected and marginal, that it often serves the authorities as a pure image, and that it can essentially point out, but, in fact, not undermine, the main problems that modernity faces.
What a crappy movie it is. Dead Poets Society - now we need to look at it in a completely different way. If someone wants to continue Sokratov pedagogical approach to the youth that needs to be corrupted - rescued, therefore, from the project in which as soldiers, scientists or intellectuals, employers, they always serve the state, which is to say their greatest enemy - what should be done then? Simple: strictly adhere to the four principles of the prestigious academy Volton, which are: tradition, honor, discipline and determination. Without it, or freed from these fundamental and truly irreplaceable principles, young people are already manipulated, and their future will be the consequence of wanting freedom in a way that will simply be (handed) to them. Because, what he had to teach them in his own way My Captain, it is that Walt Whitman was a traditionalist who understood perfectly well everything that he had revolutionaryly initiated and implemented Abraham Lincoln, adhering above all to honor, discipline, and determination, uncalculatingly following his vision.
Prema Zygmund Bauman he is an intellectual legislator and interpreter, his commitment is always and only - political, whoever, therefore, believes that it is not, then does not understand the real role of an intellectual in the public sphere.
So: what Captain did he not reveal to his young (and already dead) poets? That they could certainly break the rules of the academy Volton, only and solely because it is something completely irrelevant, a small outlet and a deception for those who are still carried away by some illusions that will be dispelled at the first contact with the reality that occurs immediately after studies. When instead of a job and a roof over your head - the case with young people in the Balkans - you go to the labor office, and stay at home with your parents, to spend your free time in your room studying free verse and the life of its inventor.
During that irreplaceable time, the world is certainly changing, as the capitalist system, the global market, the mediatized apparatus that creates our opinions, views and feelings, the very divisions, most deeply between left and right intellectuals, demonstrate the full success of the manipulative machinery that is not ours to deal with, but rather it is ours to deal with.
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