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The following text was written by Eduardo Subirats, Catalan philosopher, with whom I would consider whether to do a PhD. His thinking reflects much my view of the state of the world and history (nod to Chopa and historians in general). Yesterday I got up, went outside to hear pure bad news: I saw the Israeli bombing on Lebanon TV while looking at album covers that made advocacy of evil, death and destruction. The TV showed wounded children being treated at Lebanese hospitals. Then George Bush screws up again in the g-8 summit in St. Petersburg. The sacohuea forget or ignore that there are open mics around him and lets go of Blair, I think, Pachot it reveals the sinister simian bastard he is. Anyway, to continue paveando and I hope that someone sensible and put it to watch the grass grow from the bottom. "The Century" a fraud complaint as a set of measures the government of Chile, charge that the pretext to bring the desired and necessary social justice that this country needs, only deepen the model, ie: more lies and trickery, betrayal of their constituents. In Viña shine, hot like summer, almost. It's winter, winter weather ... trantornos? The greenhouse effect?. But I'm in a good mood. I feel like I'm turning into one of those old retired observers of the spectacle of history. Incidentally, the photo was taken a few days while it rained and tragedies occurring water overflowed the south. Well ... there goes the text, not to depress anyone, but to reflect.
Published in THE WORLD, April 5, 2002
The wars of the end of history
SUBIRATS EDUARDO
"The banality of speeches postmodernists of the last two decades, announced the intellectual mute against the global crisis we live today. First reason: the end of utopias bankruptcy sociales.La peace movements, and socialist projects of the 80, and the systematic deconstruction projects redefinition of national sovereignty and social elites of the Third World includes today its conclusion. Today pictures of environmental destruction, famine and death, migration of millions of humans, and political corruption and military and paramilitary violence that is covered in this world disorder has become obscenely visible. Their images are censored and voices of despair of human devastation that is unprecedented in major historical genocides of European colonialism. Charitable phrases eventually utters the global financial and political bureaucracy cynicism only add to their military and economic strategies of robbery and extortion.
Deterritorialidades. This was another of the watch words of the postmodernist discourse. Images associated with transnational capitalism, its global government and its powers móviles.Asociada with the construction of political discourse. This implementation of the power networks deterritorialized is now an accomplished fact and an ominous banality. For the global war strategies no borders. Paradigma.Los Amazon is a global war mercenaries in situ direct and monitor military operations in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Probably in Brazil. Developed in these scenarios the same strategies that have been trained in Africa and Southeast Asia. Synthesis and hightech dirty war. National sovereignty is an archaic if not treated in rich countries.
Argentina's financial settlement under the auspices of a democracy corrupt and irresponsible strategies of global banks interested in expanding to the collapse of the external debts of the Third World is a paradigm. The same principle has swept Ecuador, is strangling socially Brazil with a mass of human thirty million financially doomed to extinction, and maintains a tightrope called Mexico's democratic transition. Bureaucracy global multinational banks and representatives of the superpowers directly dictate the economic policies of plunder and free trade, while guarding the bastion of protectionism in rich countries. Scenes from an official White House dictating what the next Democratic president of Brazil has to do in social and economic matters, while justifying the imposition of tariffs on steel and agricultural products from that country is an act of interference resulting embarrassing even for those who yesterday assumed the inevitability of the fascist coup sponsored on behalf of the Cold War. Postmodern
The third myth was the virtual village, impersonation of the social body by the electronic mass, the end of the subject in the global village, and look empty transparent or defining a new existential condition and existentialist. Today we can draw a sequence of the decadent condition of modern civilization. Persian Gulf War: the electronic village perplexed and fascinated with the media transubstantiation of mass destruction, than it was a real massive bombing an entire country planted with thousands of tons of enriched uranium lethal effects in the long term, in a fascinating video game. Balkan War: show a systematic mass crime: organized rape of women, systematic bombing of civilians for many years, public opinion against the passive. Terror as a media event that does not distinguish between dirty wars of the paramilitaries trained and armed by rich countries to act on his watch in the jungles of Asia, Africa and Latin America, suicide warriors of Jihad and clean technology strategies of war the stars have imposed universal paralysis called civil society. Chechnya: the synthesis of War technology and total, and dirty war, in the complete passivity of the global village. Today announced an indefinite extension of the global scale regional wars, militarization of all economic and social conflicts generated by a complete failure of economic globalization social sponsored by the G-7.
is in this perspective that has also seen the event on September 11. I do not mean suicide attack at the symbolic center of capitalism and global military power by Al Qaeda. But the electronic dance manufactured from this attack. Its transformation into a primitive ritual sacrifice great, aggressive nationalism and the continuing propaganda war progressive. The 11-S has become an example of the mass mobilization of global electronics for the legitimization of a chimerical project to create a global nuclear superpower, the first formulation was exposed the day after the launch of the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as the ultimate meaning and ultimate truth, and which has since governed the bloody paths of the Cold War.
Fourth, the slogans of multiculturalism. Heir to the enlightened concept of tolerance, multiculturalism jargon, while academic and military serves the same objectives that colonists. In his name has created a perfectly uniform global culture, perfectly so closely linked bureaucratically semantically and completely controlled. These exhibitions, the museums themselves, the same single thought, whether political or literary criticism economy, it plays over and over again the same in the universities of Peru or Angola, Sao Paulo Biennial in the Guggenheim Bilbao . The result is the obstruction and destruction of memory, intelligence and local cultures, standardization of historical knowledge of ancient civilizations, and the creation of a new bureaucracy and a new global censorship.
And to finish this list soon terminals historical categories, a final conclusion or end of history as the final conclusión.Este history was, as is known, a global illusion described by the American neo-liberalism. But the end of the story is actually an old slogan apocalyptic, made first by the English Christian imperialism or merged later by German National millenarianism under the sign of the construction of ever repeated and global world orders. In essence this doctrine means that when the whole world is Christian or across the globe has become the propaganda built by the corporate media, obedient mankind will achieve happiness, and as consumers of the kingdom of God, and blessed paradise neoliberal.
The illusion of this submission the world a single law has meant, since the era of the Crusades, the first formulation, a "clash of civilizations" in the words of another intellectual associated with the administration of our new world order. The concept of shock is an understatement in this context. Actually means that the system can not be imposed Western civilization without resistance from those for which this absolute happiness means environmental destruction, misery and degradation to a subhuman existence. Obviously, then comes the shock, come wars, it's time of terrorism. And cross-imperial wars of yesterday and today's global crusade.
Under this perspective seems to me revealing the official definition the new discourse of war as a war of indefinite global civilization, and that this war was also granted the symbolic dimension of transcendent war of Good against Evil, that is, a holy war, a crusade within the meaning of Christian Manichaeism more archaic. It is a war that embraces not only a military strategy or specific weapons technology. She further defines a project of civilization. A project that is global, totalitarian, and presents administrative and notorious as a necessary order, apocalyptic war perfecto.Una unquestionable and final fulfillment of the destiny of the Christian and capitalist civilization, its values \u200b\u200bof freedom, power, order, reason. The end of history.
Certainly the corporate production of electronics can not hide fact that this politico-economic order burns on all four sides creating the suffering and death of millions of humans and opening a global perspective based precisely on terror: electronic monitoring of civil society, degradation of democracy to show corporately manipulated, violence and widespread corruption, fear and emptiness. In fact, the new global war not hide their reactive nature. They are the ultimate expression of this system when nothing can justify or support more than the militarization of social conflicts, as in the case of Colombia, and the desperate and suicidal terrorism, as the two opposite aspects but also very complementary to our historic crisis. Propaganda slogans of democracy or civilization that flag has the militarization of the planet can no longer keep either technically impossible to define a just social and economic system at the same level with that measured global strategies global war indefinitely.
The final program in history also defines the state of intellectual paralysis, the absence of artistic and social projects, the existential void that dominates the global cultural decision-making centers. Define an integral nihilism linked to the concentration technological and financial power. This gap calls for a radical change in our thinking globally and in defining our future. "