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- So, they’re wearing literal skin suits on the news now… – #PropagandaWatch
- The CIA Won: Everything You Believe Is False
- A History of the Orthodox Church
- A Discourse for Those Living in the World
- A Grasp on Eternity
- Understanding the Bible Through the Fathers
- Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council
- Fawning: The Trauma "F" We Underestimated. A Therapist Healed Herself Of It, And Is Now Healing Others From Its Deadly Effects
- The Vaccine Mafia: Pfizer’s Former Chief Toxicologist Proves How Toxic Substances Were Unlawfully Sold to Us as a Solution for COVID-19
- ‘Christian Establishment or Hail Satan?’
- Interview 2017 – Stop Hiring Humans! (NWNW #631)
- Powerless by Harry Turtledove – Film, Literature and the New World Order
- The Hidden Meaning of Christ’s Conversation with the Samaritan Woman
- The Iconography of the Ascension
- ‘A Temporary Victory against Trans Rights’
- Butlerian Jihad When? – #SolutionsWatch
- Join The First-Ever Corbett Report Livestream!
- The Case Against Despair: "Don't Spread Despair Because That Creates The Environment For The Spells."
- BRICS silent on US-Israel war against Iran
- 'Trump the Nominalist'
- From the Prayer Rope to Scrolling...
- ‘I Am an American’
- Scott Ritter: Moscow faces strategic defeat in Ukraine
- It is Time to Cut Out All Pretense, Masquerades, or Duplicitous Illusions– Donald Trump is a Fascist
- The Truth About Thomas Massie, Donald Trump, and the Subversion of the American Electoral Process by Destructive, Foreign Agents of Israel
- ‘States Should Force FedGov’s Hand on Spending with Escrow Accounts’
- Victory Day
- Short Hiatus Until May 12
- Hanta CGI Humor
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- The Hantavirus Op Has Escalated Since This Morning's Post
- A Patriarch Beloved by a Nation
- ‘Catholic Charities v Wisconsin Creates a Dangerous Precedent’
- The Autism Generation: Understanding the Autism Epidemic from Causes to Solutions
- Never Again Is Now Global: The Dangers of a One-World Final Solution
- UnPlug: A Radiologist Explores the Damage Caused by Electropollution and How You Can Prevent It
- Tylenol and Autism: Evidence, Scientific Blunders, and Medicine Gone Wrong
- Stop The Fraud: The Government Hates Competition
- If Christ Is Risen, Why Do We Still Die?
- When Forgiveness Opens the Way
- Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future
- Trump Torches MAGA — Blasts His Biggest (Now Former) Supporters
- Could Judas Have Been Forgiven—Like Peter?
- Russian government judo-chops internet & cows
- Ron Paul: Still The Voice of Reason
- Agitating for mind-revolution
- From Ben-Hur to the Fall of Constantinople: Lew Wallace, Faith, and the Limits of Historical Imagination
- Lord, it is Good to be Here: Building Orthodox Culture in America
- New York Times: ’13 U.S. Bases Uninhabitable’ — We Could’ve Just Marched Home
- A New Television Series on the Life of Saint Joseph the Hesychast Coming Soon
- New Liturgical Handbook Illuminates the Heart of Orthodox Worship
- Image and Awe
- The King’s Iconographer on Hierarchy, Beauty, and the Crisis of Modern Art
- No water for Donetsk, but lots of tasty Russian gas for NATO!
- Screens in our Lives and in Society (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
- Introduction to the Divine Liturgy
- Introducere în Sfânta Liturghie
- “I Write As It Comes Down To Me”: Papadiamantis as a Poet and the Ethos of Inspiration. 115 Years Since His Repose.
- On Religious Cinema
- From Popsicle Sticks to Iconostasis: Art of an Argentine Master Craftsman
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| Scris de Ninel Ganea |
| Miercuri, 29 Ianuarie 2014 14:33 |
Intrebarea lovea in plin ticurile si prejudecatile clasei de mijloc. O generatie imatura, stimulata artificial de fiorul revolutiei culturale, sexuale si politice, nu putea gasi vreun repros acelui rechizitoriu. Dar nu era ceva nemaintalnit. De mai bine de un secol, inainte chiar de explozia afluenta a modernitatii, scriitorii si artistii, oricare le-ar fi fost optiunile politice, il luasera la tinta pe burghez. “E meschin, urat, hot, obtuz, cazanier (…) e parvenitul lui Balzac, pramatia lui Stendhal, filistinul lui Marx”, rezuma acuzele Francois Furet in “Trecutul unei iluzii”. Si lucrurile au continuat, pana astazi, in aceeasi directie. Plictiseala, lipsa de imaginatie, praful gros asternut peste viata clasei de mijloc starneau iritarea firilor rebele. Respectabilitatea, de suprafata sau nu, constituia contrastul suprem pentru decadenta boemei. Iar de la stanga la dreapta toata lumea cultivata era inspaimantata de rutina aberanta a vietii moderne. “A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many/ I had not thought death had undone so many” (T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”). Triumful democratic al maselor, egalitarismul obsesiv, evaporarea distinctiilor, prabusirea civilizatiei occidentele sub presiunea gloatelor inspaimantau naturile conservatoare, altfel suspicioase la alternativele subculturii. Singurele voci ridicate in apararea burgheziei si a modernilor proveneau din randurile unor economisti liberali sau al unor istorici Whig, dar impactul lor era nesemnificativ, in comparatie cu sarjele artistice. In imaginarul public, lucrurile au functionat multa vreme pe o structura dialectica, conventiilor terne ale vietii burgheze fiindu-le opus romantismul, in nenumaratele sale reincarnari. In fata oamenilor comuni se ridica omul revoltat, care sparge conventiile, infrunta prejudecatile, “socheaza burghezul”, traieste clipa dincolo de calculele meschine, cauta necunoscutul, Absolutul, placerile joase, placerile inalte, samd. Figura sa era si este omniprezenta in literatura, in cultura pop, in reclame si reprezinta, in buna masura, modelul de inflorire umana al (post)modernitatii. Opozitia “genetica” dintre cele doua tipuri umane a fost descrisa, printre altii, de Ezra Pound: “The artist has no longer any belief or suspicion that the mass, the half educated simpering general…can in any way share his delights …The aristocracy of the arts is ready again for its service. Modern civilization has bred a race with brains like those of rabbits, and we who are the heirs of the witch-doctor and the voodoo, we artists who have been so long despised are about to take control”. Dincolo de fanteziile lui Pound, asaltul sustinut asupra omului comun a produs, in cele din urma, fisuri ireparabile in acea imagine, iar astazi nu sunt foarte multi cei care si-ar mai contura identitatea in termenii respectabilitatii burgheze. O parte din idealurile boemei, evazionismul, de pilda, a fost integrat in rutina “vietii de familie”. Prea putini mai au curajul de a se defini ca “mainstream”, fiecare tanjind dupa o farama de nebunie, de celebritate, macar 15 minute, daca e sa-i dam crezare lui Andy Warhol. Splendoarea calpa a noului context narativ (Holywood + MTV) a alimentat frustrarile si resentimentele oamenilor de la mijloc, sufocati de reguli neinteligibile si de plicitisul insuportabil al modernitatii. Evazionismul lor ia de cele mai multe ori forma unor evadari in paradisul artificial al filmelor sau in escapadele sexuale (vezi “A bout de souflle”), singurele remedii la indemana impotriva tiraniei mecaniciste. Noul burghez-decadent isi traieste, de regula, momentele de glorie, la sfarsitul saptamanii, cand isi redescopera sinele sau cel mai profund sub influenta alcoolului si uneori a drogurilor usoare. Daca nu, are oricum la indemana bagheta magica a telecomenzii sau lumea virtuala a retelelor sociale. Dupa care urmeaza duminica, “everyday is like Sunday/everyday is silent and gray”, cand depresia incontrolabila a fericirii inaccesibile se instaureaza total, pentru ca la final sa urmeze eterna reintoarcere in uniformitate. Mottoul “work hard / play hard” concentreaza perspectiva celor tot mai multi, care vor sa ia ce e mai apetisant din cele doua lumi (in esenta securitatea financiara si “eliberarea de constrangeri”). Sinteza dialectica intre cele doua filozofii e practic o suprapunere a celor doua figuri emblematice ale Genevei, Rousseau si Calvin, descrise admirabil de Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn intr-un eseu pe cat de scurt, pe atat de relevant. Pe de o parte, nonconformism si nihilism, de cealalta parte, reguli arbitrare, epurate de orice context istoric sau cultural. Experimentul antropologic suna, in aparenta, bine dar, in realitate, produce personalitati schizoide, rupte intre lumi care nu reusesc si nu au cum sa capete sens, pentru ca ambele filozofii reprezinta, in fapt, niste simulacre de viata reala, bazate pe presupozitii statice, false despre natura umana. Mai mult, sinele este sectionat intre roluri distincte, fara vreo legatura intre ele. Serviciul, casa, prietenii, toate presupun o alta raportare individuala, iar ceea ce lipseste este o unitate care sa dea sens tuturor acestor interpretari, dupa cum a intuit Alasdair MacIntyre: “(…)many agents exhibit no awareness of responsibilities beyond those assigned to them by their roles in each particular sphere of activity, while in their practical reasoning they admit as premises only those considerations sanctioned in each context by the norms defining and governing those roles. Their lives express the social and cultural order that they inhabit in such a way that they have become unable to recognize, let alone to transcend its limitations”. Nu exista cale de mijloc aici si nici vreo sansa de salvare cu doua antropologii la fel de gaunoase. Mariajul lor nu aduce flexibilitate, ci doar o incoerenta teribila cu repercusiuni dureroase in plan personal. In fata acestei alternative, singura posibilitate care ii mai trezeste atentia intelectualui dezabuzat este nihilismul destructiv, indiferent de variantele sale. Morrissey, cand invoca Argmaghedonul (“This is the coastal town/ That they forgot to close down/ Armageddon - come armageddon!”), nu face altceva decat sa se inscrie pe o traditie inceputa de Nietzsche si continuata de discipolii sai britanici (“I think it would be good to die, because death would be a clean land with no people in it”, D.H. Lawrence ). Odata ce intri in dialectica vietii moderne, optiunile devin din ce in ce mai sumbre. |




Intr-o carte si un film cult al anilor ’90, “Trainspotting”, conformismul burghez avea parte de o condamnare aplicata fara vreo urma de compasiune. “Alege viata. Alege o slujba. Alege o cariera. Alege o familie. Alege un televizor al naibii de mare (…) Dar de ce as vrea sa fac asa ceva?”.

