I know I started this
blog to discuss classical music within an artistic, social or political context.
However, I have decided to open this platform as a mean to write whenever I
found something worth of discussion, and given the fact the state of the world
finds itself at stake given the rise of extremism nearly everywhere, I think
it’s necessary to speak up before it is too late (yet again…)
Some months ago, I
read in a popular science divulgation journal about the characteristics of a
psychopath; of how such a person can be actually a “non-aggressive” entity
throughout its life; of how such a psychological trait can actually be
beneficial to some careers and finally of why it must be considered an illness.
(Link: http://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-you-really-tell-if-someone-psychopath) The global release of the “Panama Papers” this
morning seems to become a confirmation of all the ideas collected in the former
article.
The fact that several
presidents and oligarchs hid their secret funding for wars, sexual exploitation
and other heinous crimes against mankind or nature is flabbergasting and
disgusting at the same time, and the fact that a small firm of lawyers in a
country allowed the proliferation of such activities is equally repulsive. It
makes you think this world is truly owned by psychopaths, and thus make
understandable why every existing economic, social and political system is
doomed to fail ultimately; it is left
then to scientists to prove my claims false or to corroborate them.
I want you just to
think about these claims briefly: just see every postulate that has surged from
the fall of the last existing system to its end. From the triumph of
Christianity in Rome to the French Revolution and to the creation of the United
Nations, almost all of them promise to end all injustices issued from unfair economic
and political systems (the slavery of Rome, the inequality of rights under
absolute monarchy, the necessity of assuring world peace). However, and during
the development of new these new forms of governance, there were certain individuals
who eventually turned these sweet utopias into nightmares: from Popes who acted
as kings and tyrants and subjugated militarily any Italian population who
questioned their rule in the Middle Ages, to French and British colonialists
who denied the establishment of democratic rule in their African colonies
during the 19th Century, to the nowadays greedy tycoon who conceals
its money in tax free paradises to avoid its adequate redistribution; all of
these are unequivocal psychopathic traits of people who has risen into power
just for domination sake. No “reptilian aliens” or NWO theories required; just
plain humans with a gigantic ego and lack of empathy! Just in a few separate
cases joined with a plundering common cause.
Some may say “well,
that is how it has always been, we cannot change that” or even justify their
actions through some kind of fallacy filled argument such as “theory of
evolution states the survival of the fittest”, but let me tell you we can, we
actually can but first we must throw ourselves out of our internalized
oppression; which in many cases has been preset by such people to assure their
passive psychopathy will continue to perpetuate. Secondly, while in the natural
order of the Earth theory of evolution states the survival of the fittest, its
co-discoverer Alfred Russel Wallace considered that socially applied Darwinism would
contribute to perpetuate unfairness, because unfortunately “society has been
corrupted [by power] to determine who is fit and who is not”; again, a matter
of oppression.
However, the problem
resides in the fact we are made to believe that we are at their mercy when
those psychopaths in power are actually few; thus they have become arrogant.
Also, this goes beyond fighting a common cause: it has become also a matter of
survival in a world where economical resources are going scarce thanks to their
efforts of dividing and conquering. Certainly strong actions will be required
against them, some going even further than denunciations before the International
Penal Court as sponsors of terrorism and crimes against humanity; maybe a
Zizekian heresy might be needed in such cases, maybe then they might
understand, much in spite their lack of empathy, what terror means.
Sebastian Rodriguez
Mayen.
Links to the Panama
Papers issue:
http://www.vice.com/read/why-you-should-care-about-panama-papers-mossack-fonseca?utm_source=homepage
En español:
En français:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2016/04/04/01003-20160404ARTFIG00295-l-onde-de-choc-mondiale-des-panama-papers.php
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