Elections: an alibi for all murderers and the abstention as a suicide of the murdered
If elections could change anything they would be illegal, says an old saying. In this particular case though, this congenial certainty of the anarchistic thought is not entirely true.
Of course, this is not because the forthcoming elections can really bring any containment of the disintegration of the social state, of the dying right to justice and of any leftovers of any economic function. Nothing in the air, of any hidden or open layer of tendencies of the public space, at least for the time being, does not show any such possibility.
Parenthesis: The late neoliberals joke tellers are playing with fire amidst a tempest of anger when they defend the free market in Greece. In the land where the economy is probably verging to a soviet of a particular type from the top – manufacturers of streets, news and cultural products and colonial multinational and national cartels – till the bottom – even the school cleaning lady is appointed by the government. These media jokes are even gross now, after the super bailouts in the States, that have lead the once pure American capitalism far from the “free market” as it has been wisely analyzed by well respected and not economists. In essence all this demagogic chit chat targets only in preserving these illegal privileges.
But for the exact opposite reason: An eventual dominance of the bipartisanship will become the great communicational alibi for the continuation of “cosa loro”, of this demolition political “case of theirs” that expands quicker that the plague its dark shadow over any certainty of the citizens, and over any liberty (even economical and property liberty), a policy that is emanated as the government confesses from power centers outside the country.
And then the basic opposition argument, that of the people disagreeing, will go down the drain of the historical trashcan. What will be the result?
The typical co-signature of the greek experiment by the guinea pig. The violence of the assault will throw off any “blushing” of democratic make-up, the de-democratization will be installed legislatively and the social mechanics will do its job till the point of social explosion or the equilibrium of terror through the “mashing” of a part of the population. In Guatemala where numbers prosper and the IMF was “successful” in its mission, one out of two live outside the walls of “civilization” in endless hut cities. Here, some luckier will choose if they can the way of immigration.
Some may wonder why the communicational alibi is important. In the existent parliamentarism and this post-democratic Europe, words and concepts, are the only standing, even as a pretext, against totalitarianism that emerges scarier every day. (I will return to this in another article) And propaganda is for our societies exactly what violence is for totalitarianism. The mechanism, that exists, for the imposition of power. (The more totalitarian the regime, the bigger the augmentation of violence, a phenomenon appearing now in the form of police repression)
Why it is then that our suffering fellow men do not see this clearer than the starry night, one greek August night? Why, with the psychological profile of a believer in the arena with the lions or of a relapse of the Stockholm syndrome, do they still fence their political consciousness inside the walls of a failed polity?
But, because the most difficult for the greek voter to grasp, and I am referring to the protesting greek voter, despite his gestures and curses, the one thing he refuses and exorcises, is the real “evil” of which he does not consider capable his “governor”. His institutional “father”. And somewhere here, inside this intimate incurable form, here is, where the great fallacies start.
The greek voter, has learned, and is accused now for this, by willing intellectual whores, to follow the road of survival. Outside institutions, as the more or less over time controlled by foreign interests, state, or even outside the frame of basic values like those of the European enlightenment, that were foreign to his pre-political identity. After relatively recent, on the top, sacrifices and betrayals for a “better world” (ww2, civil war, junta) he succumbed, as it is pointed out regularly, and indeed, yes, he tried to have the most with the least effort. In a well ruled polity of values, this may have been wrong, but isn’t this the natural order of things in our modern financial savanna, now that even the European state of institutions and Right falls? To what is he different from his accusers? Aren’t they that created this frame of action? So in a pre-established, and therefore not self defined (and here lies the key of any hope for social progress) track of permissiveness, transaction, fraudulent “legitimacy”, and absolute absence of equity and justice, the greek voter, following the greek voted or businessman, has wanted to improve by this “exchange” his living standard.
What else could he possibly improve in the ethical desert of the years after junta? His critical ability, education, ethos or values, concepts totally undervalued in the stock market of everyday life internationally? This greek voter, that culpable now, puts his head between his legs, persuaded of his crimes, ready to lift the sins of all the system, has done nothing worse than his accusers inside and outside the country. So, as many tons of ink some -greek as well- ridiculous elitists shed, his insufficiency is not ethical, it may be political, it certainly is inescapable. His addiction to this drug of “exchange” has become lethal. Cause the dosage has changed and the promise “I will give you a job” is becoming in these coming elections, ”I will not fire you”, and after this, the slope of blackmails and rapes has no end in the twilight zone of perplexed prisoner’s dilemmas. In the same way the foppish virgins inside the parliament gave in, in front of the terror of their inadequacy, in exactly the same way the greek voter in their image and likeness, will also give in to his successive rapes. He is no longer, through his vote of exchange in the “shareholder democracy” a man of life, but the short sighted refuser of his death, in our digital photograph of the society of the industrial revolution and in the same film that will be projected this time in globalized 3D.
What about the greek “governor”? He is the “father”, or something like a half-educated uncle from America, who adopts the foreign “mores” in admiration and sketchiness. He is bulimic and frivolous when “playing” the ethnarch, the prefect, the phylarch and other such role-gaming types, reproducing unbelievable toxic product (multicolored ideologically), while his biggest anguish is his own severe “step father” : The bureaucratic nomenklatura of the EU, the over atlantic notes of the embassy, his instructors and corruptors in the new game of financial monopoly. The greek voted in his big chair of power seems high to his voters, and he is, but in reality he is no more than a servant of another power that gets smacked around from time to time among pleads and cries. He dishes loaned outlays out, in conceit, to friends and colleagues, in a Balkan trailer trashy pyramid, yet these outlays belong to others that are not famous for being generous. And in the end from a leading -even regional- actor, he becomes a tiny -void of any context- dictator caricature, some kind of a tragicomic expression of a far more frightening totalitarianism that nobody wants to distinguish behind the grotesque yet familiar leftover of the “governor”
And thus, despite the woe in the colony, even as a boxing sack, he remains archetypically the once affectionate uncle who shared presents, who now sometimes threatens and other times winks at his underage audience implying that “everything will go less horrible for you, MY voter”..
while others, behind the puppets of the visible landscape, are sinking us all into nightmare.
Conclusion: the denying to grow up greek people has been raped historically in habit and continuation from his patriarchic adult-acting leaderships.
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In a vision, it would be desirable that the greek people comes of age, gets politicized soul and body, self-defines his institutions or at least participates really even through some palliative measures (referendums, revocations, vetoing of parliamentary legislation) to the existent parliamentarism. Even more ideally? To change deeply this system and to go from the “shareholder democracy” to the participatory democracy. This was the basic issue of the past summer mobilizations in Syntagma, for those who pretend still to be deaf, and saw and see only the reaction which was of course tremendous. It was adolescence, a desperate effort to achieve adulthood….
If indeed, on top of the ballot box of our parliamentary “democracy”, one should stand in rational terms, he would pose one and only question. “Let us consider we have the ideal government and the ideal people. What would be our strategic plan A. inside and B. outside the Eurozone?” To this only and difficult question no ruling party answers. It is true that there are no satisfactory answers from neither the critics outside the parliament. Yeτ the important thing is that the bipartisanship does not give any answer, this same system that gets up, even ragged, in the costume of the “trustworthy administrator” amidst the ruins of the desertion of legitimacy in every aspect of social life.
The next elections will not bring any rational solution, no one is going to negotiate for us a less grim future. That day is far. We will only be able to count, how many are able to see behind the seedy curtain of the financial shadow theater, and if we really are lovers of the truth, how many of us will pull a bit the cloth, to see the real face of the orchestrators and players.
Will we abstain?
