The
language of Republican multi-millionaire candidate Mitt
Romney, as we approaching US elections, is characteristic. Speaking
about nearly half of the electorate, he supported actually that the
47% wrongly believe that are entitled to health care, food, housing
and that government has a responsibility to care for them, that
these are people who pay no income tax, ending with the extremely
cynical statement that his job is not to worry about those people.
The
philosophy of neoliberal doctrine is exposed quite easy when someone
thinks that is not recorded by cameras. What is the deeper meaning of
Romney's words? Maybe this: All people (not just half), must stop
beleiving that they have a right to healthcare, food, housing and
that is the job of the state to provide them. Until they do, the
lower incomes should be taxed to the level that someone could barely
allowed (or not allowed) to survive, as was done in the “Greece”
experiment, and continue the tax cuts in the name of competition and
job creation for the 1% that owns most of the wealth. Besides, it is
the poor who believe in the welfare state, why should the rich pay
for it?
Romney was
just honest, possibly not knowing that he was recorded, and said
things that will be applied in future in any case. They will be
applied, perhaps slightly disguised with a camouflage of social
sensitivity and lots of crocodile tears, regardless of the outcome of
the elections.
The new
totalitarianism moves forward vehemently into the second decade of
21st century. The goal is, the 47% to become 37% and later 27%, until
vanish, either through an ideological or a biological extermination.
The goal is, to prevail the “Randian” philosophy of Objectivism
and to remove any trace of concepts such as solidarity and
collectivism, concepts, that “oblige” the state to take care of
its citizens. The goal is, the return to barbarism: everyone against
everyone and each one for himself. Here is a possible
scenario-nightmare for the future.
For now, the
new totalitarianism is spreading either through a cynical ideological
imposition of neoliberalism, or through a supposed other way of the
“necessary” for the stability of economy, improving economic
indexes, preservation of jobs, investments at any cost as if there is
no future without them, all under any ideological umbrella. But how
is prevailing despite the continuing destruction that brought?
Despite the opposite results from the ones that supposely intended to
bring?
In America,
the “McCarthic” terror of the Soviet Communism is brought back,
together with a systematicaly planned propaganda, in order to
stigmatize the welfare state and labor rights as a consequence of
this type of Communism, which of course is completely false, since,
the conquest of the welfare state and the labor rights, derived
through social struggles of decades from the people primarily in
western countries. The “communistophobia” is also brought back in
Greece from various mouthpieces, in order the welfare state and labor
rights to be targeted through a similar way, while extreme
nationalism exploits this fact in order to be promoted as the only
voice of truth against the systemic propaganda, and gain greater slice
of the electoral pie.
But this new
totalitarianism, imposed mainly through a Protestant type logic that
the painful path to the future is inevitable. The logic, according to
which the societies must bleed today for a better tomorrow. The
logic, which essentially represents the new rationalism of the 21st
century, replacing the rationalism of the industrial society
denounced by Herbert Marcuse in “One-dimensional Man”. This
neorationalism, which may be more horrible, because it becomes the
vehicle of this totalitarianism which leads the societies to a slow
death. More perverse, because it is accepted almost automatically by
the majority of society, expecting a better future. More powerful,
because it leads ultimately not to the totalitarianism of
“one-dimensional man”, but to the totalitarianism of
“one-dimensional culture”, gradually eliminating any cultural
element that can surpass him and beat him.
Despite the
hypocrisy of the supposed rival ideologies against this
totalitarianism, the representatives of the Greek political scene
betrayed by their own words. A characteristic example can be taken
from a recent speech by the “Socialist” Evangelos Venizelos:
“It has no meaning to speak nowdays about cutting the disability
welfare payments. It is not worth for the state to behave with
cruelty against the most vulnerable social category.”
The
“Socialist” should be more careful than Romney. Besides, he is
talking in front of cameras and knows that they record him. Wearing
the mask of the Socialist, he is opening issues that in the past he
wouldn't dare even to consider: cutting the disability welfare
payments: “It has no meaning nowdays...”, which means that maybe
someday in the future it will have? “It is not worth for the state
to behave with cruelty...”, which means that if it was worth, ie if
the economic indexes were going up again, the state should drop its
people with disabilities like garbage?
it was just luck that Romney was recorded in his element.
ReplyDeleteJust curious, which language was this article Google translated from?
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