One of the problems of exaggeration is that it leaves us without a vocabulary when things get ugly. If we call tragedy to any little setback of life, we do not know how to call the death of a child. If we call any discussion violence, we are speechless to describe a murder. If we call any tristura, anxiety, fear or anguish disorder, what do we do when schizophrenia stands in front? When we have exaggerated so much, run out of words to true tragedies is equivalent to incoming them disarmed. Talking with property allows you to apply the appropriate solutions to each problem, because neither gunflows are killed, nor is a genocide with batucadas brakes.
The words censorship and cancellation They have been subject to recurring exaggerations in recent years. Although social pressure, activist mobilization and, sometimes, political action, have subjected orders to writers, musicians, filmmakers, artists and various opinioners, with harassment and unacceptable signs in a democracy, nothing resembles Trump’s totalitarian tyranny, which has charged Jimmy Kimmel’s head.
There is no naivety: of course all governments try to influence public opinion by controlling the most outstanding voices. The uncomfortable and the related ones are scheduled, and you have to be very blind so as not to see the maneuvers that the Moncloa orchestra on television, the public and the private ones (this Moncloa and all the above; there is not a single government that has not aspired to direct the public conversation). The difference with a tyranny is that democratic power has self -imposed limits and forces that are opposed, and in the often bronco and dirty game of influences due to hegemony, plurality prevails, because no one wins at all and nobody is completely defeated.
Trump has broken that deck as he had never seen in the United States, even during the night MacArthysta. He is not content to promote supporters and make the opponents a bit a bit: he threatens and represses in everyone’s view, in a change of radical panorama. What do we call this vindictive policy, if the words censorship and cancellation have been spent talking about bullshit? How do we face this monster without the right vocabulary? As in so many other issues, recurring hyperboles have left us defenseless against barbarism. It is urgent to recover the meaning of words and give them good use. Only then will they be effective.
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