"Η ΒΡΕΦΟΠΟΙΗΜΕΝΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ"-ΤΟΥ ALEXANDER KISSLER...ΠΩΣ ΟΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΣ ΞΑΝΑΜΕΤΑΤΡΕΠΟΝΤΑΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΚΥΡΙΑΡΧΕΣ ΕΛΙΤ ΣΕ ΒΡΕΦΗ...
Eνα πολυ ενδιαφερον και αιρετικο βιβλίο ...
...που αναδεικνυει πως οι κυριαρχες ελιτ μετατρεπουν τους πολιτες σε βρεφη...
"Η ΒΡΕΦΟΠΟΙΗΜΕΝΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ" -ΠΩΣ ΟΙ ΚΥΡΙΑΡΧΟΙ ΞΑΝΑΚΑΝΟΥΝ ΤΟΥΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΣ ΒΡΕΦΗ...
Όσοι τυχόν ξέρετε γερμανικά διαβάστε αυτή την ανάρτηση για το βιβλίο του Kissler "Die Infantile Gesellchaft" ...
...που περιγράφει πώς οι σύγχρονες κυριαρχες ελίτ χρησιμοποιούν -αλλα κ εφευρισκουν...-κάθε μέσο που που θα ξανακάνει τους πολίτες "βρέφη"...
..με νηπιακό τρόπο απλοικης σκεψης "μαυρο-ασπρο"...
..με δολώματα διάφορα (διαφημισεις, προσφορές στα σουπερμάρκετ, ψευτοαξιωματα στις Εταιρειες, χτυπήματα στην πλάτη τύπου "σουχω εμπιστοσύνη να κανείς ο. τι σου ζητάω..' κλπ )
...με αντικατάσταση του Λόγου με Εικόνα...
...με γαργάλημα συναισθημάτων αντί Σκέψης...
...με σπορ κ ποδόσφαιρο ως παιδικά παιγνίδια όπου ξεσπούν θυμος κ εγωισμός...
...με ανάδειξη "παιγνιδιών" υψίστης σημασίας όπως το πολυτελές αυτοκίνητο,τα αξεσοριες κλπ που τα κουνάνε στη μύτη των παιδιών για υποταγη στους "Πατέρες" ..
..ακόμη και με παιδικά ντυσίματα όπως τα ψαράδικα παντελόνια ως κάτω απ' το γόνατο που προωθούν την εικόνα μιας αιωνιας εφηβείας κλπ...
Έχετε κ σεις ξαναγίνει "μωρά";
Για δητε το...
Και μάθετε κ κανένα Γερμανικό...
https://www.amazon.de/Die-infantile-Gesellschaft-selbstverschuldeten-Unreife/dp/3749900140
Και διαβάστε κ το ακόλουθο σχετικό κείμενο αγγλιστι-οι μη γνωρίζοντας αγγλικά δεν ενδιαφέρουν το ιστολόγιο μαςως επισκεπτες
The infantilization of Western culture
Society-wide arrested development
The dictionary defines infantilizing as treating someone “as a child or in a way that denies their maturity in age or experience.”
What’s considered age-appropriate or mature is obviously quite relative. But most societies and cultures will deem behaviors appropriate for some stages of life, but not others.
As the Bible puts it in 1 Corinthians 13:11, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”
Some psychologists will be quick to note that not everyone puts their “childish ways” behind them. You can become fixated at a particular stage of development and fail to reach an age-appropriate level of maturity. When facing unmanageable stress or trauma, you can even regress to a previous stage of development. And psychologist Abraham Maslow has suggested that spontaneous childlike behaviors in adults aren’t inherently problematic.
But some cultural practices today routinely infantilize large swaths of the population.
We see it in our everyday speech, when we refer to grown women as “girls”; in how we treat senior citizens, when we place them in adult care centers where they’re forced to surrender their autonomy and privacy; and in the way school personnel and parents treat teenagers, refusing to acknowledge their intelligence and need for autonomy, restricting their freedom, and limiting their ability to enter the workforce.
Can entire societies succumb to infantilization?
Frankfurt School scholars such as Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm and other critical theorists suggest that – like individuals – a society can also suffer from arrested development.
In their view, adults’ failure to reach emotional, social or cognitive maturity is not due to individual shortcomings.
Rather, it is socially engineered.
A return to innocence
Visiting America in 1946, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss commented on the endearingly infantile traits of American culture. He especially noted adults’ childish adulation of baseball, their passionate approach to toy-like cars and the amount of time they invested in hobbies.
As contemporary scholars note, however, this “infantilist ethos” has become less charming – and more pervasive.
Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have observed how this ethos has now crept into a vast range of social spheres.
In many workplaces, managers can now electronically monitor their employees, many of whom work in open spaces with little personal privacy. As sociologist Gary T. Marx observed, it creates a situation in which workers feel that managers expect them “to behave irresponsibly, to take advantage, and to screw up unless they remove all temptation, prevent them from doing so or trick or force them to do otherwise.”
Much has been written about higher education’s tendency to infantilize its students, whether it’s through monitoring their social media accounts, guiding their every step, or promoting “safe spaces” on campus.
Meanwhile, tourist destinations like Las Vegas market excess, indulgence and freedom from responsibility in casino environments that conjure memories of childhood fantasies: the Old West, medieval castles and the circus. Scholars have also explored how this form of Las Vegas-style “Disneyfication” has left its stamp on planned communities, architecture and contemporary art.
Then we’ve witnessed the rise of a “therapy culture,” which, as sociologist Frank Furedi warns, treats adults as vulnerable, weak and fragile, while implying that their troubles rooted in childhood qualify them for a “permanent suspension of moral sense.” He argues that this absolves grown-ups from adult responsibilities and erodes their trust in their own experiences and insights.
Researchers in Russia and Spain have even identified infantilist trends in language, and French sociologist Jacqueline Barus-Michel observes that we now communicate in “flashes,” rather than via thoughtful discourse – “poorer, binary, similar to computer language, and aiming to shock.”
Others have noted similar trends in popular culture – in the shorter sentences in contemporary novels, in the lack of sophistication in political rhetoric and in sensationalist cable news coverage.
High-tech pacifiers
While scholars such as James Côté and Gary Cross remind us that infantilizing trends began well before our current moment, I believe our daily interactions with smartphones and social media are so pleasurable precisely because they normalize and gratify infantile dispositions.
They endorse self-centeredness and inflated exhibitionism. They promote an orientation towards the present, rewarding impulsivity and celebrating constant and instant gratification.
They flatter our needs for visibility and provide us with 24/7 personalized attention, while eroding our ability to empathize with others.
Whether we use them for work or pleasure, our devices also foster a submissive attitude. In order to take advantage of all they offer, we have to surrender to their requirements, agreeing to “terms” we do not understand and handing over stores of personal data.
Indeed, the routine and aggressive ways our devices violate our privacy via surveillance automatically deprive us of this fundamental adult right.
While we might find it trivial or amusing, the infantilist ethos becomes especially seductive in times of social crises and fear. And its favoring of simple, easy and fast betrays natural affinities for certain political solutions over others.
And typically not intelligent ones.
Democratic policymaking requires debate, demands compromise and involves critical thinking. It entails considering different viewpoints, anticipating the future, and composing thoughtful legislation.
What’s a fast, easy and simple alternative to this political process? It’s not difficult to imagine an infantile society being attracted to authoritarian rule.
Unfortunately, our social institutions and
technological devices seem to erode hallmarks of maturity: patience, empathy,
solidarity, humility and commitment to a project greater than oneself.
All are qualities that have traditionally been
considered essential for both healthy adulthood and for the proper functioning of
democracy.
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