“The most dangerous human masses are those in whose veins the poison of fear has been injected... fear of change”. Octavio Paz.
The daily chronicle leads us to wonder if political action is directed at imbeciles or is directed by imbeciles, understanding by imbecile that lacking intelligence. I suppose that, as in many aspects of life in which the predominant color is gray, there are imbeciles driving the ship and imbeciles letting themselves be carried away. Such is the primacy of imbecility in this era of human history that we should be thinking of a way to name it, something like the “century of shadows”, “idiocracy”, or the era of “counter-enlightenment”, some term that allows us to describe the supremacy of imbecility over reason and science.
The signs that our rulers suffer from the ability to learn, understand, reason, make decisions and form an idea of reality are multiple and manifest themselves daily in very diverse ways. In the case of public leaders, the inability is especially hurtful since they have been appointed to defend the general interest above particular or partisan criteria, as well as to lead the destinies of millions of people towards the improvement of living conditions. The prevailing idiocracy is evident in the manifest inability to make the right decisions to improve the quality of life of its governed. Our rulers are characterized by not doing what they have been elected to do. The professional politician does not miss an opportunity to contribute with his political action to the progressive loss of the values called to strengthen the social and democratic State, undermining the fundamental principles of democracy, and weakening the pact of trust that sustains peaceful coexistence until its definitive disintegration.
It is known that a born imbecile can govern any country, community or public institution, a screening would give us a clue as to how right I am. We also find examples of supervening imbecility, that is, the imbecility of the herd. In these cases, the party is very useful as a sectarian structure that has proven to be very effective in the massive contagion of foolishness. Other cases of public imbeciles are those who have freely and consciously chosen degradation. This is the case of the corrupt in whom imbecility is consciously sought and chosen as a way of life, that is, doubly imbecile. The corrupt is an imbecile by his own decision.
The imbecility of free choice is so evident and common in this country that it has been practiced for centuries. Corruption is institutionalized in such a way that it has devoured the system. We are governed by corruption with the connivance and complicity of imbeciles from the left and right. The same ones who now prevent the Head of State's business from being investigated, to the greater shame of the State.
Political action has for years been directed directly and openly to fattening the economic patrimony of “The Party”, feeding with public money “The Financiers” who, grateful, make a stop in the current accounts of our public representatives to leave the crumbs on the way to the tax haven. Thus, electoral campaigns are platforms for the exchange of money between imbeciles, in such a way that the national territory is the battlefield for the financing of political parties and the great highway is corruption. Public contracting or criminal urbanism are the means by which public money passes into private hands, with damage and detriment to the quality of life. We should identify psychopaths among so many imbeciles, lest we confuse them with so much commotion.
What they steal from us is more difficult to measure because everything stolen is never recovered nor can everything we lose be valued, in real terms. How is the loss of citizen confidence in their public representative valued? the public expense of pursuing corruption? Or the loss of international credibility? the environmental cost of criminal urbanism? How is the expenditure on public services valued for the damages and consequences of corruption? How much public money has been invested in supporting banking speculation? And in the savings bank scam, or in the financial rescue? How many European funds have been allocated to illegal, fraudulent or directly and openly non-existent businesses?...
We can speculate that these imbeciles steal more than 16% of the annual GDP from us, that between “The Party” and “The financier” they plunder more than 90,000 million euros from our tax money a year, but we will always fall short. At this point the questions are: is the one who steals from us an imbecile or is the thief the one who considers that his victim is the imbecile in the equation? Does the fact of enriching oneself at the cost of impoverishing the population where they live denote intelligence? Is the white-collar criminal the social example? It is evident that in this society of involution “the fucking boss” is the one who demonstrates having fewer scruples, greater capacity to adapt to manipulation, and, of course, a limited intelligence that only allows him to feel today, the self and the now. Let's not forget emotional intelligence in this equation.
Only by recognizing the imbecility, the capacity for manipulation, the lack of scruples and the absence of emotional intelligence of the one who governs (understand, the one who only has power and/or money), can it be understood that the world economy rests on speculation and leisure, that a pandemic enriches the richest, that inequality is life insurance for 1% of the world's population and that the main problem of the “fucking bosses” is how to protect their assets and their lives when “the event” happens. That is, when the planet's natural resources are exhausted and the extermination of biodiversity gives way to the extermination of the human species. It must be that the imbeciles who believe they are the smartest in the yard have planet B and see donkeys flying.
The recognition of the foolishness and the ruling psychopathy forces us to ask ourselves what happens to the rest of the citizenry that does not participate in the networks of economic power. If we already know that the imbeciles that “The Party” places on the electoral list steal from us due to their proven inability to reason and manifest subservience to “The financier”, and that we are governed by a large mass of psychopaths incapable of developing emotional intelligence, isn't it logical that they think that the voters are the imbeciles? Well, it is stupid to let yourself be robbed, it is stupid to let yourself be annihilated, it is extremely stupid to allow cuts in public services while bank scams are paid with public money, it is stupid to play with the future of the species.
As Octavio Paz announced, is it the poison of fear that prevents us from defending our survival? Is it the poison of fear that prevents us from demanding a more dignified life? What is it that keeps us tied to foolishness? Do we devolve to the point of not seeing that social inequalities on the planet devour any glimmer of the future?
Anyway, I just wanted to write something about the group of economists hired by the Island Council of Lanzarote. Another day.
By Irma Ferrer
