Gedanke I [Thought I].

Mexico City.

20.05.2020

Betrachtung I [Reflexion I].

Almost in their totality, the world has been forced to stop, that’s what it is said, maybe forgetting that more than half of the population from the world have no the chance to stop, is truly a privilege. Those than refuse to stop have died. No political system or dictatorship earns this.

This situation makes me think about some factors that are part of the whole thing. Firstly I’m surprised how many nations put all their trust in the capacities of the state to fight and control this apocalyptical event.

On the other hand, this situation makes me ask my self if, Is the state truly serving the society or is only continuing serving the power of the Capital and sustaining the unsustainable.

In some way, the state is on the total power position. They discriminate and define the dynamics of how to live as a society at this moment.

The Capital, insatiable, even has been diminished because of the absence of the Lumpenproletariät, It started run uncommon mechanisms because older situations don’t need the implementation.

However, part of the society has not so much to do; it depends on your position in this society, but the common is not to kill your self and others.

Society was forced to keep inside their homes, so maybe at the same time we were forced also to rethink all the unethical and maybe irrelevant we normally participated, because is the normal way we lived, maybe in all contemporary societies, this meant how we spend our time in the predetermined activities, for example, work, study, relax and consume. Probably we realize we do this way because of imitation and no self-conviction.

Maybe when we want to occupy again the place we were predetermined, we will realize we won´t belong to that old gear and on the contrary, we try to find new alternatives for the way we live, or maybe we just get better for all this reflexive hangover provoked because the so long locked down.

-Patricio Saucedo-.