EDUCATION OF SUBJUNCTIVES

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday July 02, 2002 16:05 by Elias V Makris heliasm at hotmail dot com

SOCIAL CONSENT

The "new order of things" is not so new ...

EDUCATION OF SUBJUNCTIVES

Diachronically, the imposition of each "New Order of Things" lies in the same always cause, the legalization of inequality in the distribution of goods. The essential differences during the centuries have to do with the utilization different medium each time.
Thus, in the feudal season the inequality of distribution of ground was solidified via a system that cultivated the subjugation of tenant farmer in the landowner. Since the industrial revolution and afterwards this inequality is expressed through the segregation in householders of means of production and workers. Today, it lies in the consent as for the enlargement of social inequalities to profit of capital, through a concrete speculative tactic of last one. The expression of this speculative tactic, in level of political decisions, constitutes the policy of "development". Let’s see, however, how the persons are educated in the social consent (subjugation), so that they constitute subjunctives of each power
The children's fairy tales, with which have all the generations, grownup identify “good” with acceptable by the dominating elite of organized society. On the contrary, is defined as “villain” everything that disputes this type the organization. Thus, the wolf of fairy tale, free in the forest, expresses the big dissenter and it is the "villain". The small pigs and persons live inside the frames of organized society and for this reason are the "good'".
An alternative approach, of fairy tale, is that the wolf was hungry, because the human society extended itself, thoughtlessly, at the expense of the forest, that is the natural space for the wolf. This is proved by the fact that small pigs live, henceforth, in houses and no in the forest. This extension happened as consequence of individualism and competition, symptoms of syndrome of property. Moreover, a child is unable to realize what is the difference if small pigs have eaten by the wolf or led to the slaughterhouse, by their householder. The vital question however is, if small pigs are leading to the slaughterhouse for covering survival needs of social total, or the speculative needs of few wholesale merchants. We have not to forget the micro-economic sizes, for which the international "developmental" practice has shown that they thrive proportionally with the size of destruction of flora and fauna each country’s.
Finally, did the organized society name the wolf “villain” in order to hide the arbitrariness of her choices? Is a “villain wolf” every dissenter of this way of organization of society is? and does he deserve even the extermination? Telling the truth, how a girl, (Little Red Riding Hood) so much small, and her grand mother, were found alone and unprotected, easy spoil, in the danger. Does this show the indifference of organized society for her feeble members? (lack of social policy, according to the running terminology). Does the hunter that restores the victims of bad wolf, in the fairy tale, constitute the tragic allegory of current military enterprises of "good", against where ground " villains"?
However, the education of nationals is also continued via the education at the children's age and puberty. Thus, is defined as "good" the assiduous and compliable student, while on the contrary, "bad", the student that is feeble because is not interested for the courses (why however?), or undisciplined (the adolescent, when disputes, he only be undisciplined). Good "are remunerated" with high degrees and reward, while the villains with low grades even with reject and they are punished with various sentences. “…The form and the structure of school were determined the 18th century as micrograph of factory, precisely in order to enter the children in the spirit of factory. With hierarchies, bells, reward for the "good" students, punishments and reject for "villains" students…” (1). This retributive logic of educational system, has as result the school to be faced as coercion, instead of constituting a pole of attraction for the children and adolescents.
Deductively it results that the educational process, in the application at least, educates in the competition and the individualism. That is to say in the alienation of consciences. All these happen under a pedagogic label, which draws substance in the name of "realism" and tries to convince that finally, the youth will have to be adapted and to serve the needs of productive process, instead of, serving the human needs. Who gets benefit from this situation is obvious for all. After this big circle of education that begins from the tender infantile age and leads to the end of puberty, it everybody deserves to be puzzled anyone, faraway bipolar reasonable, for "via life education" that the television channels offer.
I wonder, is a robber of banks, the biggest villain, or a chief economic elite, that speculate regularly? The essential difference lies in that the likely use of violence on behalf of it is covered by the lows system, that, it self established. The robber, at the same time, aspires to have an advantage in the competitive society of market with action, that is contrary to the being in effect lows system. The fact that he functions with clearly self-interest criteria facilitates his marginalisation and expulsion from the organized society. His existence, however, is necessary for the dominating elite, because thus, lawful coercions are justified that lead to the control of social total.(2) At this point, the Mass Culture of television is called to supplement the jigsaw of ideology of power. Thus, it appears the drama that contains the criminal action, causing (manufacturing) intense of emotion in the public. The television viewer, reacting reflexes, consents to the exemplary punishment of "villain" guilties, and he does not think to seek the deeper causes that are found behind each morbid phenomenon and thus, he practices his criticism in the power. Direction, that would lead to the prevention. It’s worth of mentioning the sentence of death, that it is still in effect, and in the aims that indeed it serves. In the countries where are executed penal detainees, alibi constitutes for the statement, that the utmost punishment is imposed for exemplary reasons and prevention of future crimes. However the continuous contradicts this alibi increase of criminality. On the contrary the system is rendered more persuasive in the propaganda of bipolar form "good-bad". Indeed how the common opinion will think to object, that the criminal isn't “good” certainly, but possibly he is neither “villain”, or to attribute responsibilities in the system, when the feelings of emotion climax through the horror and the infelicity that the "show" of the appeared crime rise? The same common opinion in her children's phase, proportionally thinking, did not seek other guilties except the "bad wolf". It sought however punishers and heroes, as the hunter. Hence, the “villain wolf”, the criminal that is to say, should be exterminated as enemy of society. When however this is imposed in the consciences, it acquires and the interchangetive attribute.
The one that is exterminated by the organized society is her enemy and the unique person in charge.
An extension of the propaganda of "bad wolf" constitute the military enterprises " in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and everywhere will be necessary in the future. According to what it was appeared internationally, from television channels, "villains" were the leaderships of these countries and their nationals. The "Good" are legalized to kill population in order to "protect" the human rights and the rights of multinationals companies !!!
All things considered certain conclusions that can be exported are:
Each "villain" constitutes miasma that rejected or even exterminated, individually. If there are not "villains" are created a lot of problems, furthermore it is more expensive for the "good"…. In the daily reality the appeared police reportage causes so much fear in the medium citizen, so he pushed requiring or imploring more policing. Therefore, the citizen of a democracy is forced to consent to the violence of power, which having as alibi the repression of crime, practices the control in the thought via institutional and not mechanism (terrorism). The power will smoothly continue her "developmental" policy, aiming high targets, as the bigger possible reduction of interest-rates, the rise of Stock Exchange turnover, in combination with the partial employment, reducing simultaneously the social expenses so that it does not deviate from the "developmental objectives of" Europe Union. All the above are translated in more and more profits for the capital, they accentuate the social inequalities and supply with more "bad wolves" the social total. It is realized, consequently, the relation of regularity that connects the capitalistic environment with such type phenomena.
The reality should be interpreted rationally, so that the causes of problems are raised. Thus, in the human relations there is not the subject "good" and "bad". The human relations function roughly as the chain chemical reactions. At least, the opinion of Weber there refers, when it describes the relations of actives subjects and reactive objects, in the social total. The Marxist view there refers also, which realizes that the situations shape the persons, but also are shaped by them. It becomes obvious the education in the alienation and via this, in the social consent of human mass. Thus the term "Social Consent", is removed by it’s initial significance and it is identified, henceforth, with that of subjugation, rendering diachronic the “1984” of George Orwell.

15/06/2002
Zante / Greece

1st publication (in Greeks) 21/5/02 in the zante’s newspaper “Imera tsi Zakinthos”

bibliography (Greek publications):(1)Leonidas A Papakonstantinidis “Sensitivity local society”, marelNikas ,1988
(2)Noam Chomsky-David Barsamian “The guidance of masses”, scripta, 1997
Noam Chomsky- Marc Ahbar, “manufacturing consent”, Kastaniotis, 1999
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