06 June 2010

Let's go back to dictatorship!

(I will give it a try...)

Democracy leads to mass brainwash. Or, mass brainwashing is the technique used to rule a democratic mass.With no means of mass brainwashing (like the mass media), democracy would not be possible. This is why democracy was not possible in the past. Democracy is a TV (democracy is the EuroVision song contest). You need a somewhat homogenized mass to rule in a democracy. Democracy is the death of minorities: the mass as an exterminating dictator.

While in a dictatorship the state controls your body and words, in a democracy the state let's your body and words more or less free, but your mind is controlled. In a dictatorship, your mind is free, as a revolutionary it's easy to keep your believes. Democracy enhances sedentary though and unification. Democracy uses soft words in the ears of the revolution to make it fall asleep.

This can also be associated to Foucault's analysis of techniques of security. While in a dictatorship, the means of control are discipline ("do what I tell you") and punish ("or I will hurt you"), on the contrary, in a democracy, the techniques of security used by the state are education (the brain washer "look how I do it, its so good!") and population surveillance ("let's take care of these bad 5% of the population who do not do it 'well'", "let's get rid of these dangerous outliers").

Let's go back to dictatorship! I want a revolution. And revolution is the other face of the coin where dictatorship is. Revolution is dictatorship's sister. In a democracy, the revolutionary felt asleep watching TV on the couch. In a democracy, the revolutionary boy buys an iPhone while people die:

2 comments:

João Montenegro said...

Excellent, excellent post!!!!

Telemaco said...

The argument would work better with these suicides (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/09/france-telecom-staff-suicides-phone) as not everyone sees China as a "democracy".
But well, I am in China.