Mi capita tra le mani questo mio scritto dell'estate 1996 quando fui estromesso dal mio lavoro di responsabile del progetto provinciale di lotta alla dispersione scolastica ad opera di un provveditore che fece carte false per poter realizzare questa nobile impresa sostenuto da un ampio stuolo di intriganti e facilitato da an army of cowards. As always happens to me during a heavy blow and try to learn something in a sleepless night I wrote these words. Unfortunately, as I wrote them so I have forgotten - the power of removal - and is now back, do not know why I find them extremely topical. Let me know if you find someone who looks like this identikit.
Stupidity LESSONS IN THREE: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE POWER
For some time I stopped thinking that there are conspiracies, for the simple fact that they have discovered that there is one big conspiracy that stupid. This is a story so secret that even the players are aware of and yet there is no appointment is missed, provided it is violated, an objective that is missed. Reflections on stupidity springs to mind, especially when I try to explain too much nonsense in the social system, and particularly disturbing as the thought of accompanying me when I happened to observe closely those who claim to exercise power.
intelligence and movement of the mind between two basic things: breaking down the reality, which is still complex and multifaceted mental elements simple is the reason that analyzes, who does his job to split, ratio , reality, reducing it to concepts to be introduced in mind, the second task is to establish new links between the mental elements, move them from one place to another, create new games go beyond the 'and present themselves well. intelligence is completely mobile and changing, constantly crossing borders and divisions established by the intelligence itself, is a dangerous navigation in the complexity of feelings, relationships and knowledge. Stupidity is therefore identified and fixed, unable to extricate the complexity, inability to get out from their games, unilateral reduction of reality to its appearance so it is not a lack of intelligence but a disease of the intellect.
At school we are told - and explain - that the main problem of the handicapped person, which does not mean that another disadvantage, is to set out on his own diseased part, the difficulty in developing a complex identity in which the diseased part has a role but is not pervasive. But the setting may also relate to exceptional quality - or those claims - the person, once inside, they become monstrous distortions that hinder lo sviluppo di una persona umanamente completa. Sappiamo tutti che la precoce ed insistente specializzazione della mente o del corpo rovina le persone perché le fissa intorno ad una propria parte ritenuta ‘eccellente’.
Di queste fissazioni, di questi sviluppi unilaterali alcuni hanno particolare rilievo sociale e costituiscono il brodo di coltura di cui si alimenta la congiura degli stupidi.
Tratterò tre forme che assumono il ruolo di abito professionale per chi esercita una qualche forma di Potere. Per Potere intendo chiunque abbia un berretto in testa che gli conferisca the power to direct others, from parking where you require and how to deposit the car, the Secretary General of the United Nations.
power
power once descended directly from the intelligence: the priests of the temples, granaries were able to predict the time and to make provisions for work in the fields, were authorities because they were actually able to drive the growth of the common heritage. The capacità di guida e di decisione discendeva quindi dalla conoscenza, l’autorità intesa come competenza era strettamente intrecciata con l’autorità intesa come capacità di essere autori, accrescitori, del bene comune: a Giuseppe che seppe conoscere e gestire il tempo delle vacche grasse e delle vacche magre fu dato l’epiteto di ‘nutritore’.
Quando si esercita il potere senza autorità, la decisone sostituisce il pensiero, l’imposizione sostituisce la convinzione. “Cosa fatta capo ha” : il fatto non é il risultato of joint efforts, but a weapon of power against the same people who produce the common good, sharing is not a condition for participating in the joint work, but vassal homage to those who have the power. The need to continuously produce facts that Ergani like boulders in front of his subjects, creates a state of emergency continues, and emergency preparedness in the decision.
The setting in the role of decision makers in the overproduction of facts, depresses rapidly every ability and willingness of knowledge: the facts are produced by the power stones to power itself, which increasingly tangled around them and lose all interest in unraveling the complexity of reality to invent new possibilities, to be author something.
The power is then solipsism and loneliness, self-sufficiency, dissolution and isolation from the bonds that can be called out of the game alone, just like the power to admit to himself, because ' similarity and strangeness': not created similar between no movement of knowledge, but simply lonely coexistence. In this respect men of power tend to continually recreate the spirit of the Acropolis, the citadel, which dominates the city, being inhabited by warrior-lovers, the supreme guarantee of total unity and fighting spirit in combat.
When this set of conditions is realized the power is finally stupid, unable to understand and deal with reality, fixed repeatedly and unilaterally in only one function: the compulsion to repeat their crimes to self-destruction is the necessary corollary of stupidity - blindness - the power, from Oedipus to Creon, Holofernes by Saul, from Napoleon to Hitler, people's democracies by the Christian Democrats (if it is allowed down in issues Homemade)
It 's just worth noting that the power of money and politics tend to behave the same way: just change the means to produce decisions: one using the coercion of money, the other using the coercion of the laws.
vanity.
Vanity par excellence is tied to the physical appearance, beauty and prowess of the body. If the body is a common resource, the handsome, caring presence is an aspect of intelligence and precisely that aimed at developing relationships and expressing feelings: intelligent people seem beautiful even when they do not comply abstract aesthetic.
In this respect we can consider the 'beauty' in the broadest sense, as the capacity to fascinate others by his presence, whether it is an exclusively physical, be it a fascination with larger capacity.
The setting in its charm and an important source of stupidity.
The cliche has always set this feature to women, but fortunately this is one area in which males have finally begun to break the women's claim to exclusivity, for which a discourse on beauty as a source of stupidity can not be accused of being antifemmnile. The handsome man walks around with a flashy sign "Mi Sun''has a vacant look nice or retroflex on himself addressed not to meet each other in the eyes of others but to understand the unconditional admiration. Of course estrinseca il meglio di sé in presenza di almeno una persona di sesso femminile; in assenza di questo catalizzatore si serve del fascino riflesso della folla plaudente a cui é ancora più difficile sottrarsi.
Il modello simbolico per la competizione e l’affermazione di sé é il branco in cui il maschio dominante mostra la propria potenza in relazione al numero di femmine possedute e al numero dei maschi subalterni che gironzolano intorno al branco in attesa di raccogliere qualche briciola. La folla plaudente rimanda simbolicamente al possesso di un vasto harem. Sotto questo aspetto l’uomo di potere non può esimersi dal realizzare in pratica ciò che il successo di folla postula in termini simbolici: dovrà sottoporsi a lifting, cure dimagranti e improvvisati footing per adeguare il corpo allo spirito, e dovrà anche, per vero o per finta, circondarsi di un adeguato numero di donne (in questo contesto animalesco sarebbe più appropriato il termine femmine, se non si rischiasse di avvilire il ruolo delle femmine della specie uomo a quello di mero strumento riproduttivo della specie), poco importa se i confini tra l’amore autentico e quello mercenario siano piuttosto labili.
Quando il fascino sia esercitato soprattutto attraverso i mezzi di comunicazione di massa, il problema di collezionare femmine può Simplify and become symbolic of everything: press and special programs talk about the loves real or imagined, you lounge on the quantity and quality of orgasms, the catalog of love that always ends with 'in Italy it has milleetré " .
The man of power, set in its own charm, can make pleasant to think and reason: he simply has the know-how or order it to those who can count, his argument is the number one and Prince: any stupidity or wickedness is accredited by the high number of followers, any attempt at reasoning is crushed by the abundance of opinion opposing supporters. The trial of Galileo is repeated many times: the power of the crowd may controvert any scientific truth.
intelligence.
intelligence is itself the source of stupidity.
One of the decisive game of intelligence and the construction of representations of reality. These representations, by their nature, are not "real" but only "trusted" must constantly be reviewed, maintained after the confrontation with reality. In general, the frequency of maintenance prevents the building is representative and comprehensive in all its parts. Still, there is an uncontrollable drive to complete the picture, to find a place for each event: it is a push that comes from the need for security, to find everything in its place, not to meet with surprises and unexpected. It is therefore an exercise together fascinating and reassuring, and someone is caught until it lost contact with the reality is how many times repeat and refine the design plans of a house, without ever realizing it. So the design becomes more refined and accurate , the more it should not be carried out to avoid the risk of fixing for ever in a real mental representation that can still be improved. When a representation is complete, perfect in its entirety, provides for each event, the successful thinker declares itself in possession of a "Weltanschauung" , view of the world has become a "thinker of great size." The vision is necessarily a visionary, a kind of illumination divine can embrace the world in one place so that only God could do. The thinker of great size can dominate the world by sitting quietly in a chair, can foresee events and to participate without slip off your slippers, can know all the knowable without bothering to leave the house, and without encountering anyone.
In fact, despite the desire to sit quiet, like any 'motor motionless' should do, the thinker of big format is taken from some anxiety: there are events beyond the control and you have to make big Efforts to restore the system: there is thus a continuous work in order to demonstrate to themselves that nothing can vary and that any new phenomenon can be attributed to those already classified, there is always a ritual formula that allows you to re-establish dominance on the events: the use of history interpreted as a succession of repetitive formulas and decisive to conduct this operation. The man ignores the plight of the poor ideological Homo Erectus, who, not having the same human ancestors and could not repeat the past, has been forced to invent the Homo Sapiens can not benefit from some good pre-existing model.
The balance possession of the truth, the completion of this self-sufficiency in a Armored system of thought, thought does not allow you to use as a communication tool but as a weapon against others, they are perfectly suited to the aphorism are wrong to be right.
Man Large size does not talk to each other, but above, do not have a particular recipient but speaks to the universal and for eternity, and oracles, and oracles do not mix to mere mortals.
When a man of great size is raised in power - as are others to take care of the need - to have an innate idea in the world exempt them da ogni forma di inchiesta nella realtà. Ciò che non si accorda con la propria visione, ciò che si ostina a non farsi inquadrare dentro di essa, viene semplicemente cancellato. La cancellazione delle idee allude a qualcosa di più grave: la cancellazione delle persone. Le persone cancellate sono definite sedicenti oppure pazze, possono essere messe ai margini, rinchiuse in manicomio o eliminate nei lager a seconda del potere di cui dispongono gli ideologi.
La stupidità ideologica si ritrova soprattutto tra le persone che usano il sapere e la cultura in modo professionale e quindi innanzi tutto tra i professori. Psicologi, sociologi, giornalisti, politici, esperti vari sono altre risk groups. It is therefore a kind of occupational disease resulting from the need to maintain the professorial aura.
The 'world views' are very practical for the men of power: it is thoughts such as "turn key" on the market there are different versions that suit different tastes: secular, Christian, hedonistic, masochistic, etc. .. . The man of power, which does not have time to draft its own, can buy, renew and choosing among the models displayed in the windows of pret a porter .
Corollario: la malvagità
La caratteristica comune delle diverse forme di stupidità é la determinazione nella affermazione di sé: poiché lo sguardo é rivolto soprattutto a se stessi, a una propria parte ipertrofica, lo stupido ha la sensazione di essere primo e migliore, in quanto non vede negli altri uno sviluppo altrettanto ipertrofico di quella parte. Non prendendo in alcuna considerazione altre realtà non é soggetto a dubbi - Except as a declaration aimed at interlayer captatio benevolentiae - quell'esitazione not know which is typical of reflective thought, did not need time to ponder several hypotheses. The power in its various forms appeals to stupid because it offers the opportunity to capitalize on the determination el'unilateralità. If by chance there is a comparison between the stupid and the person who tries to use intelligence, it is bound to succumb. A person who claimed his stupidity said of himself: to fool stupid people are born intelligent people. This sheds light on the nature of evil stupid not having ability to deal positively assert themselves destructively. Being able to subjugate the other, especially when this may seem humanly richer, it becomes a way to grow, as well as eating the heart of the brave warrior killed the quality of this transfer to him that if it feeds.
This seems particularly important when it is said that a new political class began to rule there is the risk that the level of stupidity from power is not yet high enough to make compatible the new rulers with the old structures. The risk is contained in what many have done a long apprenticeship stupidity in the party structures and the various steps of the sottopotere in recent years, however, if someone still did not feel quite stupid, I hope to profit from these small classes.
Written in the summer of 1996 after being ousted from my work by the courtiers vile damned race
reviewed and confirmed winter 2010
