a friend about Orwell's 1984. "Who controls the past dominates the future."
The phrase is an explicit recognition the importance of ideas, because they are based on the visions of the past, this is evident mainly in history, where the focus is on showing the past from a single point of view, when clearly the opposite is true, but it should not lead to believe that history is not possible to reach accurate and credible explanations of the facts. An example of the above is the "war" among many historians in explaining the causes of civil war from 36 to 39. Obviously, the right-wing extremists to emphasize certain features of the republican government they do is legitimize the coup against a democratic government, as a lesser evil to the His abuses alleged. History at the end of the study, makes people short and basic teachings of the different processes, and transmitting the vision of right-wing historians is that sometimes it is legitimate to a coup, with the danger that this may result in the future. What is relevant is the need to be critical of views transmitted to us, the "teachings" of those buried, and finally, the phrase is a reminder that no one comes to know the easiest way to lose, of roads and to repeat mistakes and suffered.
" War is peace, Freedom is Slavery & ignorance is strength."
What is doublethink ?
Doublethink is what he has done for Zapatero few months since the IMF is forced to make reforms, had a clear political speech defending the weak and the overnight change, clearer impossible. This leads to an absolute distrust of politicians not being able to do what they say. Political discourse is inevitably perverted and undermined confidence in the policy, with consequences that can ensue.
I crimental.
Crimental desire expression refers to the condemnation of certain desires and thoughts, control of the state is such that even your inner life is free from control of power. In religion the wishes crimentales wishes would be unclean for example, we are condemned not only by having them perform them. Is a clear example of the internalization of authority, how it controls us; them are negative and guilt created by the consciousness is the conviction that. Pure Nietzsche.
Centre-periphery. Stigmatization of the population.
'm a Marxist in some ways, the first is political power a group has different forms of control over the rest, the outcasts, to control and prevent them from rebelling. These elements control the religion, art, culture, etc. That is, the stronger groups use everything in its power to control and dominate, Wallerstein, a famous economist, puts it this way, the world is divided into center West, and periphery, the rest, the outcasts, the poor. The Center monitors the outcasts creating disorder among them (USA in South America in the 70 and 80), resulting in them dictatorships that serve them (Pinochet imposed by the CIA) and passing on cultural patterns that promote the inferiority of them. Colonization and anthropology at the beginning is an example of this, they are inferior and should obey the superior.
More, Wallerstein says, unlike Frank, who each center or center also has its periphery, ie in Western countries there are also mechanisms of control and submission of certain parts, especially the south, to have cheap labor and close. One such mechanism is the cultural control, the extent of stereotypes that create an identity from the outside, to prevent the advance of the testing group and further including negligence. An example: the image of Andalusians on TV: all the television series are issued by uneducated people, speak evil, are funny, do not work or if they are vague, house maids (like the family doctor and the Serrano), etc. There is no one qualified, which shows an unrealistic image of the group that makes unable to assume a constructive and real identity. If we are all well, as shown, normal for companies not to invest, we do not hire or do not have people in the elite. Andalusia suffers from the Franco era, when it became really important to forget everything: culture, painters, Lorca, etc., and we became the territory of all English subjects. Thus both Canal Sur contempt, that is the game of wanting to show an unrealistic image of how we are encouraging the mackerel group and not place value on what's important. I'm not saying that all programs do, but the general line of the chain, focused on providing an image of Andalusia connected with bulls, song, country and party people. The television is in some ways a mirror of who we are. This is a way to control the periphery of the center, Andalusia and Extremadura. I am out I say you always have to fight the stereotypes that place us as people semiculta, funny or vague "nature", which allegedly involved in being Andalusia. Obviously this happens everywhere, there are always prejudices, but you have to the south, especially from the right, have a Francoist roots and condemn us to submit, to take seriously not merely because of being of Andalusia Extremadura. That controls the center to the periphery as Wallerstein also using other mechanisms, such as lack of investments for continued underdevelopment.
loss of ideals of political parties and crisis.
worst of the crisis is not the legitimacy of the parties, which simply has increased, but of democracy itself, as no parties are deciding and elected governments, but people as unreliable as the IMF or the WB, which mark the lives of citizens pushing countries brutal cuts and privatization, as they are not affected. The final instruction is: if the government decides, it does not go to vote on it, so others will decide for us, a power that we have chosen, that is undemocratic, because nobody has democratically elected members of the IMF or World Bank.
Using lottery entertain proles leg.
simply call attention to the use of the lottery to keep people hopeful about changing your life with a stroke of luck, not by social and political action. If you watch TV, which is the great medium of instruction in Spain at the paucity of reading in general terms, in recent months lottery ads have proliferated, and special drawings, which is curious, the state does drawings a special public money which in turn has been taken away with the cuts.
sexual Puritanism and burning warrior.
interesting Freud and one of his books; " The discontents of civilization "in the first chapter addresses the causes of the First World War, his explanation is simple from his theory of emotion and sex: the nineteenth century is characterized by exaggerated sexual puritanism is sexual repression Man unprecedented those desires unsatisfied, that energy without using a sexual level, moves to another human instinct, aggressiveness, and then to Freud the war, among other things, would be for the wish fulfillment and brutal sexual repression of European society. Interestingly, the U.S., a state with a very fierce sexual morality is now the ultimate global war state. This does not mean that Freud is right.
need of an enemy or theory of "Enemy in the mirror."
Orwell unwittingly brings to the table a theory called "Enemy in the Mirror" is basically the group that has problems or internal cohesion, to be fought better, find an external enemy, which becomes cause of all the evils within the group. The image of an external enemy serves to unite the group with problems better and have a reference point because of hatred and evil out of it, eliminating responsibilities that are borne abroad. Is now becoming an enemy from the area of \u200b\u200bthe extreme right, the immigrants, which is to blame for the current situation, focusing on them shamefully malaise.
political language and thought control.
C heck language is thought control. It covers two books vital to understanding the intellectual political discourse: "Do not Think of an Elephant" and "Manual of progressive" both a linguist to sound some of the opposition: George Lakoff. Both books are key to understand the manipulation of discourse that makes the European and U.S. right.
Political "hablapatos."
Good examples of politicians like Willy Brandt must first know and then follow, and this does not occur frequently, as our politicians, in addition to a low level, do not have the courage, initiative and creativity needed to change the situation. Some say they do not because they can not but because they can not, I think it's the contrary, can not you simply do not know. The biggest frustration with the crisis has been the lack of imagination and creativity on the left, which has simply been folded Leviathan markets without creating an alternative social and human.
Is social inequality an unalterable law?
Should reflect on whether inequality is inevitable, as it is to drop an apple tree by gravity. This conformity with what is happening, to think that the imbalance is inevitable and "natural" is unacceptable in the human world there is nothing "natural" everything has an explanation and cause, and simply a new approach, starting with the acceptance of that the situation has not always been this way and can begin to stop being so, it could change the situation. The first cause of change is to think that nothing is impossible. As stated in the May 68: "Be realistic, demand the impossible" obviously to begin to change reality. When stop thinking it does not make sense to be a teacher. We can not accept social Darwinism neo-capitalism imposed on us wild.
Economic reforms and domination.
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treatment of colonization mechanisms that have great importance today, the colonization is one of the most interesting and exciting I know, its mechanisms of domination at all levels for their survival today and for the reactions to it. Interestingly Spain, with adjustment plans imposed from the EU, the IMF and World Bank are suffering what has been suffered, relatively speaking, African countries in the 80 and 90; previous agencies imposed on some African countries liberal economic adjustments and reforms, as we have imposed on us, called PAE (SAPs) to lend them money, so did with us, or make a plan of adjustment or no money to cover the crisis. Colonialism applied to African economic are doing now with us with impunity, or rather, with the impunity of people's ignorance and the inability of politicians. The "Discourse on Colonialism" by Aime Cesaire, essential.
The relationship between war fever and sexual puritanism in 1984 and Freud.
The sentence is very interesting that the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, apart from the reason the 11-S, presumably serve to establish peace in both countries. There is a justification for certain wars, preventive wars are therefore supported by many countries, and sometimes even by the UN. But war is always the worst decision, do not say that the defense will not be necessary, say that prevention is a barbarism are on behalf of peace, human rights or oil. The second part of the sentence comes to hair to explain freedom today, basically for many it's own, which entails the slaves of the material they are supposed to free on the superficiality of consumerism. He who is not, and is worthless. The third part, ignorance is strength, we are close. On television there are characters (Stephen B.) who are ignorant and proud of it. Whether to be happy is to have money, and people who have not made any effort, then ignorance is a value. It costs effort to have it, and possess above does not criminalize the society. Explain this in schools is key, vital, what happens is that the reality, unfortunately, we dump every effort to show them that being smart and educated worthwhile.
Media.
Keep in mind that the information is received by the media primarily for books and little magazines. It focuses on them all the attention, the global media are held by 4 or 5 large corporations, who obviously have a defined political and economic interests. This is a brutal control. One example, the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. control of the media was and is absolute, do not we learn almost nothing, only what they want, there is a total opacity of the facts, hidden massacres of civilians. It is true that lately, for example Wikileaks documents, has seen what is happening in reality, but a drop in the ocean. Spain has much to learn from other countries, there is absolute control of the media by political parties, and what is worse, there are agreements between them which violate the right to information of citizens, as the explicit agreement not to remove dirt of the monarchy, which puts us in the second division democratic. People do not know what happens, or leave them. The control information increases the impunity of political and eliminates the role of control of their activity to be performed the media. The cases of regional chains, also in Andalusia, but especially in Valencia and Madrid (condemned by political manipulation and control adult) are a scandal.
