The South Korean philosopher “Byung-Chul Han” has written about the determining influence on human life of “cybernetics”, which Plato, by the way, defined as “the art of directing men”. Which is the same, “the skill to govern them.”
It is read that in 1787 the British Edmund Burke limited in a speech in the “House of Commons”, that the executive, legislative and judicial were present in Parliament, but in “the press gallery” “the fourth power” . Therefore, for centuries, the world has been embraced by a triad of formal powers. And a number four that humanity itself has created. And without the rigor of the previous ones.
The academic, it is worth wondering if he has considered that in Latin and Central America “a wave of atypical political regimes” has been generated, doubting whether “atypicality” is hereditary or we got used to it, for having followed the alleged first “precursor ”, who in most cases seems that the only thing he wears, at the end of the chapter, is “the jacket”. The hatred is mutual between the 3 formal powers and the newspapers, regardless of whether they are electronic or not. In Mexico, Nicaragua and El Salvador, among others, the guidelines seem to have a certain similarity with the assessment of the Italian jurist Santi Romano: “We know that, under the threat of State Law, there are often shady associations whose organization could be considered analogous , on a smaller scale than that of the State”. Appreciation collected by Diego Gambeta in his book “The Sicilian Mafia”. It’s hard to say and in the XXI century.
Particular mention deserves Venezuela, in the midst of “a crossroads of letters.” Ask what is “the good letter”, if the one addressed to Joe Biden for the attenuation of “restrictive economic measures”, since its effects fall minimally on the government and maximum on the people. Its signatories, serious specialists, among them, José Guerra and Francisco Rodríguez, but they have been attacked as “sold out to the regime”, that is, with what the philosopher “Han” calls “infocracy”. The substratum, in the second “letter of the epithet” rubs against the “born criminal”, the one with “the sunken occipital fossa”, by Cesare Lombroso, that is, “psychopaths incapable of pity”. For some “the death penalty” finds justification in this position. In the second letter, “dead rather than corpse.” Well, with born criminals you don’t negotiate, they must first be seized and guillotined. And the country that is failing seems to be the response of the followers of the first communication, which, as they say, is supported by the Federation of Chambers and Associations of Commerce and Production, chaired by Carlos Fernández and the Banking Association of Venezuela, by the dynamic banker José María Nogueroles. It is also observed with respect to the consent of politicians.
Additionally, “a tidal wave of suigeneris governments”, whose mentors describe themselves as “socialists”, taking refuge in the banner of addressing human shortcomings, today a few. Mentioning “communism” and “socialism” means, at the very least, reading some of the pages of the Russian Revolution, which illustrate the struggle to pronounce such conceptions seriously, as well as to rehearse them. But also the famous words “Perestroika and Glasnost” by Gorbachev, undoubtedly historical. Like the words “right and left”, evidence of which is the recent forum of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy, with well-selected specialists. The mentions “communism, socialism, right, left and center” have remained as “reminiscences” of historical facts and first-class philosophers, used randomly and without roots in what they really were. For the sake of the truth of what we are and how we act, it would seem healthier to ask ourselves why we Venezuelans vote for Chavez, Chileans for Boric and for what reasons Colombians will vote for Petro. In the South American giant, Brazil, we waste time calling Bolsonaro a “right”, particularly if we take into account that Lula, branded a leftist, has decided that Gerardo Alckmin, recognized as a far-right, should accompany him in the duo for the presidency. It gives the impression that the founder of the Workers’ Party has heard that “politics was invented by the devil.” the Chileans for Boric and for what reasons the Colombians will do it for Petro. In the South American giant, Brazil, we waste time calling Bolsonaro a “right”, particularly if we take into account that Lula, branded a leftist, has decided that Gerardo Alckmin, recognized as a far-right, should accompany him in the duo for the presidency. It gives the impression that the founder of the Workers’ Party has heard that “politics was invented by the devil.” the Chileans for Boric and for what reasons the Colombians will do it for Petro. In the South American giant, Brazil, we waste time calling Bolsonaro a “right”, particularly if we take into account that Lula, branded a leftist, has decided that Gerardo Alckmin, recognized as a far-right, should accompany him in the duo for the presidency. It gives the impression that the founder of the Workers’ Party has heard that “politics was invented by the devil.”
For Taurus, editor of Han’s book, “digitalization” is unstoppable and life is inexorably moving towards another, with the seriousness that we don’t know what to do. We continue, the philosopher points out, stunned by “the informative frenzy”, which has even taken over the political sphere, altering the democratic process. Democracy, for the South Korean, who is a professor at the University of Berlin, is degenerating into “infocracy.”
Let’s go to the magical realism of García Márquez in “El coronel no ha que le Escriba”, to, perhaps, identify ourselves with that candid warrior betrayed by all those close to him, for the purchase that the government makes of their consciences, praying that in the Venezuela of the 21st century is a sincere Aureliano Buendía who interprets us with sincerity and that the term is not as long as the “One Hundred Years of Solitude” that the wise Gabo left us as evidence of who we were and can continue to be. Despite the fact that the novelist would have a hard time getting out of the astonishment that in the 21st century, at least, Venezuela, he receives letters from him.
Perhaps, a recommendation for those who subscribe to “the letter to Biden” could go through the reading of “The Art of Strategy”, by Sun Tzu.
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