Hopelessness

En estos tiempos de crisis financiera, de hambre, de pobreza, de destrucción del medio ambiente, de guerra, pareciera que las cosas nunca podrán cambiar, que las alternativas para que otro mundo sea posible son nulas. Adbusters, en su versión electrónica, analiza esta situación en un reportaje titulado Machinery of Hopelessness por David Graeber. ¿Somos un mundo sin esperanzas?

"How did this happen? Is it normal for human beings to be unable to imagine a better world?"

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. To understand this situation, we have to realize that the last 30 years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus that creates and maintains hopelessness. At the root of this machine is global leaders’ obsession with ensuring that social movements do not appear to grow or flourish, that those who challenge existing power arrangements are never perceived to win. Maintaining this illusion requires armies, prisons, police and private security firms to create a pervasive climate of fear, jingoistic conformity and despair. All these guns, surveillance cameras and propaganda engines are extraordinarily expensive and produce nothing – they’re economic deadweights that are dragging the entire capitalist system down".

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