has not yet turned off the echo of the death of Eluana and I find it hard to speak on this topic for meeting I feel for the suffering of others. I feel close to her father, who showed great dignity, love for the daughter and deep sense of civic duty for the battle that led to civilization despite the great hypocrisy of the media, institutions, politics and especially the Church. A little big man, a hero of our times.
Is there something I can not bear that stirs me uncomfortable and angry. Since I do not want to yield to disgust, will reflect on what happened from the meaning of words, taking up a term on which I have already talked a little 'time ago. Cynicism is the term . I think what
to have emerged, especially the last stage on the story of Eluana, is precisely cynicism and opportunism as a result.
What is this word in everyday language? (I will not take into account its philosophical origin, of which retains some features even if warped).
read some definitions drawn from dictionaries:
cynicism takes the meaning of dismissive attitude towards any political principles and values, moral and ethical-religious.
The cynic is one who shows contempt for every social convention or moral ideal. To better understand which may be associated synonyms: cold, impassive, imperturbable, indifferent, insensitive.
seems to me that some of the attitudes and policy of the Church, have been cynical nell'accezione exactly negative of this term. Berlusconi has no respect for anyone used this story in a cold and opportunistic, willing to take two birds with one stone: to pretend to respond to the undue pressure of the Holy See and hit the President in terms of image and institutional power, is now clearly established in the will to turn our Republic into a limited populist democracy. The Church, without any spirit of charity, arrogant tone he used towards the family Englaro fundamentalism and against those who express ideas and values \u200b\u200bdifferent from his. He urged the government to intervene in an authoritarian manner, and the government has opened an institutional battle bad. The opposition has been confused and inconsistent (ie, nonexistent). What emerged was just hypocrisy, opportunism, verbal and psychological violence.
cynicism, perhaps, can also help us better understand certain social phenomena.
written by the Carryover Žižek, thinker of Ljubljana:
" Distance cynical and complete reliance on the imagination are so closely interdependent: the typical person today is someone who, while flaunting a cynical public confidence in every ideology, indulges without retention in paranoid fantasies about conspiracies, threats and other forms of excessive jouissance " (The Big else. Nationalism, enjoyment and mass culture, Feltrinelli, 1999, p.56)
What does Žižek ? Without being confused by its language Lacanian take his film to understand how such cynicism is an essential feature of the current ideology. The film is Forrest Gump , which shows the changing role of ideology in this era, considered post-ideological. The protagonist of the film, for Žižek, is "ideology in its purest," a subject in which ideology works in his prime, "and does not need disguise themselves shamelessly, in fact manifests itself openly showing its operation without being disturbed. The moral is simple and clear. The injunction is: you stop to understand, obey, obey, and you will be successful. Forest, the executor of idiotic order becomes rich, his girlfriend, criticism and political commitment are dying of AIDS.
Žižek's analysis continues and is very sophisticated and interesting. I've called because I made a hit. On the evening of the death of Eluana has had great success in the "Big Brother", which received a viewer rating in spite of great went on air on other broadcasts Eluana question. I wondered why. I thought maybe some viewers were upset and anxious, others are tired of the fights and the gossip of the politicians, the Church and the media have preferred to escape. Others have simply stressed their indifference to everything.
All these ways of reacting, in my opinion show a strong inability to face reality head on with a company which, now marked by indifference and by turning in on itself. So cynical.
recent racist incidents confirm this analysis. Faced with a question such as rape is to take this opportunity to exorcise their sins (rape is widespread in our society especially in families) and ideologically cynically creating a "rape of alien race," solve everything with increased penalties. You do not want to reflect and discuss the mechanisms that support some perverse aberrant phenomena of our society. Cut short and cynical moves attention to enemies, which just happens to always come out. The usual bad chorus, sung at every opportunity for the crisis of society and politics.
Ulrich
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