It is necessary to highlight the omission of psychoanalysis, which did not see how violent and enormous the need for recognition, reputation, success is, therefore, that this desire is now largely a producer - the masses that are the embodiment of the desire for recognition. For example: the appearance of a musical planetary icon as it is Taylor Swift, should be seen as - ideology and religion young people, furthermore, the way of their new communication, socialization and, finally, but not least - politicization. Since the support that Taylor Swift has provided Kamali Harris, in just one day mobilized hundreds of thousands, to say the least, loyal fans. Mass is inherent in modernity.
The title itself - "Terrible children of the new age" (sloterdijk), suggestively indicates that contemporary generations are being formed (or, why not - `format`) in age - after culture, in liberation from everything that culture is, from the attitude towards heritage that is neglected, to an essentially frivolous understanding of education. One of the leading problems lies in the fact that - self-affirmation repeatedly pushes the subject because the only thing he has to show on stage is what does not provide him with a return reaction in terms of recognition. In the artificial attraction of a schizoid spectacle content, we remain only and always those who belong - to the cult of worshiping an icon/star, because that is the only way we can gain recognition and belonging. (Eros is explicit to the extent that it is trapped energy that finds vent in fatal self-destruction.)
"Pride and Prejudice" (2005), a film that behind all the formalities of male honor and women's predetermined future (by marrying a rich fool, etc.), is also a story about the spirit of the end of the 18th century in England, that is: pride that is so inherent "islanders", and the prejudice that is the product of that, becomes an obstacle to the realization of love (then it was a contract/alliance between two powerful families or the creation of a clean workforce), which also in this film project calls for help comedy as what breaks through the restraints of spontaneous, human and natural reactions.
Postmodernist consumption rises to a pedestal that is acknowledged: it is primarily the consumption of something provocative, socially not always but acceptable, free and subversive, which appeals to the desire for - the emancipation of eros, which must be able to be de-tabooed. In this sense, then, an aggressively and banally sexualized single such as "Booty”, should be interpreted as a step forward in the glorification of nudity, however, and as an attack on feminism, since everything is reduced to the object/butt of two pop culture performers. (Indeed, the naked and unmanly female body has not yet problematized the question of the position of women in politics, why is she excluded from the decision-making process on all crucial issues related to the community, and how is it that she is still only seen as attached to the private space?)
However, transparency is only theatrical, while inclusiveness reveals the impotence of the contemporary subject of politics and art, but also religion. If we continue on this path (only one addition beforehand: Sloterdijk shares Deleuz's aversion to psychoanalysis, seeing it as a quasi-science that sickens life's impulses, it is hidden from the beginning on the side of religion, it suspends will, personality, autonomy, and even pride, and if the early fathers - also mentions them Niche - controlled society with the constant threat that comes with the reminder of the seven deadly sins, psychoanalysis, on the other hand, solves this with chemistry, previously with lobotomy or electroshocks, mostly it is work on dissolution thymos in the man of modernity who is increasingly a patient), we will recognize that, in fact - democracy therapeutics of politics. What, then, if it is, in fact - Real enjoyment-a of every mass to be brutally enforced on it - the will to rule?!
Without values, established criteria, general agreement about prevailing things, recognition is absent and the modern subject compensates for this by compressing hatred. All the more, this "feeling" that is cumulative, unclear and trapped in itself (the bully is usually a person with low confidence and a big ego), is ideal for control, because it dominantly threatens the role of the citizen as the bearer of sovereignty, who only has to obediently serve the idea of the nation state , again, therefore - the mobilization of the masses that are a magnet for the ego (which he noticed Freud as well as Benjamin).
When it comes to community, intersubjectivity rests absolutely and absolutely on the need for recognition. By the way, the flourishing of new-agers and various life teachers, gurus for the famous and the rich, etc., rest on the exploitation of the inferior value complex, which has reached its peak in hypermodernity today. The basic drive of capitalism rests on competition, the reality of rivalry, because if we are not what the market is looking for, we are automatically outsiders or losers. Without balance (but, again, this is a binary way of thinking, entering the zone where the law of advice rules to stay away from extremes, that the only right, healthy and advisable thing is what stoicism propagates as self-rule through moderation; why not "anger at oneself ” which he greets Plato?), easily slips into the dark side of the personality, into that which is suppressed and which is a trigger for self-destruction, as is the case with the character of Nina in the film "Black Swan". She gets her mother's "recognition" at the price of going crazy...
The irrefutable truth that is Marks recognized as an eternal class struggle, now they would level policies of plurality, decentralization and green democracy in which there is no leading figure, thus there is a linear and not a horizontal arrangement. Nietzsche's much maligned "will to power" dissolves in endless bureaucratization and abstract administration, in the work of experts and technocrats, while - the dynamics of libido - is released through the politicization of all minority, sexual groups. Political correctness is a sham and a rosy facade, as much as it teems behind everything - the relationship of forces and the distribution of power. Modern terminology does not diminish the animal in us!
From the community, everything he does thymus, is transferred to the market (which through exchange creates the appearance of pacification, which is the ideology of big capital), that's why we have - global peripheries of renegades, homeless, migrants, addicts, that layer which is no longer treated as a society but a landfill. On the other hand, swallowed up by the economy - although the narrative about economic growth constantly breaks with the past for the sake of a better future that will be a prelude to the denationalization of the state, it's all an empty story since the economy is the pillar of every state steeped in nationalism and isolationism! - politics is a slogan that no one takes seriously anymore, moreover, and therefore as a result we have become prostitution for petty privileges.
So: since his energy is devitalized, his strength is taken away, his need for recognition subdues, what remains of a man is a crucified patient, someone who needs to be taken care of, a being whose dignity has been taken away. Considering this, and what has recently happened to workers in the United Kingdom, it is they who should come forward and finally say it once and for all: since the left is clearly building its career on our desperate fate, we would ask them to do so more in the future they don't, because their representation costs us everything, that's why we have nothing. Because some in the world are getting recognition that they are disinterested fighters for the disenfranchised, to be disenfranchised more and more since they are a case that only triggers satisfaction, or, to be more precise, it will be that it is a "fantasy about satisfaction" (Sloterdijk).
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