social movements against the rhetoric out of the crisis
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Through Life Together. 2009
Through Life Together. 2009
The distortion of reality by the political class of this country in order to impose an explanation of the same interested and supportive of its purposes is such that the national parliament has become an audience which represents the best theatrical performances.
Last session of the government control of the nation on 17 November, Mr. Rodriguez Zapatero left for posterity phrases with a very high level of rhetorical acrobatics. Among his references are, no recovery, slow, certain, steady but uncertain in its progression . Interesting linguistic construction, perfect in the use of some terms carefully chosen to avoid compromising the socialist rant economic recovery but accepting the possibility that in the future soon, the situation worsens. A true exercise in rhetoric that avoids the contradiction by introducing contradictory terms. Other; improvement is too weak to ensure an irreversible change in trend. Semantic An invention must be read twice to understand it.
The words of the head of the ministry of work justifying an objectively bad unemployment figure is the paradigm of speeches made up. Attention!; Beyond the seasonal data, we will slowly, gradually and steadily reaching equilibrium and no longer destroys jobs ... has not yet come (the time of balance), but we are very close . Statements made with 20% unemployment. Good premiere at a press conference for Mr. Valeriano Gómez.
also exist in the Canary Islands regional version of this type of discourse convoluted, twisted, trying to mask a reality known by everyone.
support to justify the state's general budget presented by the PSOE, Ana Oramas, MP for CC in parliament said The budget submitted by the Government is, unfortunately, the only possible . A reflection that has the virtue of putting CC as a victim of the decisions of the PSOE. Since the budget was the only possible one, CC has been forced to support it. Or the accurate analysis of Mr. Rivero Baute to argue that it is necessary to bring more tourists to generate employment showing a complete ignorance of the limits of the territory of the Canaries; We have the capacity in our hotel and other infrastructure to bring a million tourists not only three million.
Although the archetype of the statements studied were made by the head of the PP in the Canary Islands, Mr. Soria semantic ingeniously learned to make statements to the millimeter measures to maintain an uneasy calm that would safeguard the governability pact throughout the term. The newspaper archives are there. It is interesting to look at.
With these speeches are not surprised by the crisis of representation and political disaffection of us echoed in the previous article and that causes a level of abstention and lack citizenship too high. Politics has become a profession run by a few games that reward the one who proclaims subtly prepared speeches and presentations to introduce disguise or conceal the truth. It is the policy of understatement. C. Castoriadis called it videopolitics , the ability of current political rhetoric transmuted into a story intended, but is not declared, the receiver is to numb it. Imposing carefully considered statements that counter the game plan even if this means telling a story that has nothing to do with reality. It is the tyranny of the parties supported by the company hipermediatizada that amplifies any type of sermon. So is missing a politics of reality and common sense which tells the public the truth of things and leave the preaching to try to distort reality. In the end these political behaviors show that behind what is published, said or says, there is a whole cluster of agreements, decisions and guidelines or intra between parties that is hidden from the public and is really where the disposition of the future citizenship.
sociologist Enrique Gil Calvo in his latest book, Chronic Crisis sets out three possible scenarios to the current events critical in an attempt to tell the reality as it is. Very eloquently indicates sociologist might think "do what you ask voters," (p. 217) regarding the possible solutions to the crisis but argues:
"Before the crisis, all governments practiced the same neoliberal policies: whether they were conservative by conviction and whether they were progressives need to maintain the competitiveness of their economies, this pragmatism that some as Blair called Third Way. " (p. 217).
Which is only further evidence that existing democracies, voters have little say and ultimately different alternatives to deal with a situation like the present absent. A central issue in that it demonstrates that the democratic project is light years away from being completed.
So believes that the first scenario would imply a return to neoliberalism deregulated. He argues that it would be more plausible exit because the situation would return to pre-crisis without causing a change in the current economic structures. In this scenario out of the crisis would operate by means of socializing the costs involved in the current situation.
Strengthening government intervention would be a possible second stage. If the global economic recovery takes national governments choose to introduce a series of measures to reduce economic deregulation and increase the state's presence on the control of the economy. One option that does not mean abandoning capitalism but to change its structure making it an interventionist and statist capitalism which already operates in many countries.
The third output would be guided through the configuration of an internationalist Keynesianism. If the economic crisis continues indefinitely the joint force deep reform in the current world economic order. Countries would be in the position to cooperate together for the common good of the planet, incorporating the new players in the global economic scene (Brazil, India and China) in an economic strategy that would require reforming the current international agencies.
The sociologist made a final thought interesting. Interprets the crisis as an opportunity to abandon the myth of unlimited economic growth (p. 221). Calls for abandoning an economy focused on the quantitative increase in personal income and focus efforts to introduce ethical criteria in a society with a commitment to restraint and moderation (p. 222) as the only real way to overcome the emergence of new crises.
One scenario would involve a major overhaul of the purposes for which human society should pursue. This can only hope if there is real political will for change.
Photo 1: Stages of the housing bubble as Hyman Minsky. In The housing bubble
Photo 2: Cover of Crisis Chronicle. The social construction of the Great Depression
Photo 1: Stages of the housing bubble as Hyman Minsky. In The housing bubble
Photo 2: Cover of Crisis Chronicle. The social construction of the Great Depression
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