The greatest
vendettas of Romanticism have been the invention of the unconscious, the
nostalgia for happiness, and the seed of nationalisms. Three facts that the postmodern
democracy has irresponsibly and recklessly empowered, bargaining, with its
enemies, its own survival at the expense of the survival of democrats, whom it
has politically betrayed.
It is said
that Socrates was killed by democracy... Indeed, something like that might seem
plausible, but it's not at all convincing. Socrates was a sophist different
from the official sophists of his time. He was a man who exercised sophistry in
an eccentric manner, as philosophers typically do. In fact, philosophy offers
itself as an eccentric way of confronting the sophists and is seductively
displayed as an alternative, attractive, and selective mode of public life.
Socrates, a truly vulgar and tattered man, sought a resonant way to die
politically and chose to make democracy his murderer. A conclusion that
undoubtedly delighted Plato and many of his other disciples and contemporaries,
eccentric and visionary sophists like him, the utopian engineer of a Republic —
more precisely, an imaginary and sinister theory of the State — that has never
had, nor will have, the slightest possibility of existence.
Politics
alienates, above all, the idle and the lazy. There is no rambler capable of
repressing the vice of making politics their personal beggar. A philosopher is
an eccentric sophist and an imaginary, utopian, and fictitious politician, as
was Plato. The chimera of politics has led to the failure of many thinkers,
philosophers, and writers. Philosophy itself, from its origins, has been an
eccentric way of practicing sophistry at the heart of the State, in newspaper
editorials, and in university classrooms. And today, also on social media,
albeit with an unusually impoverished imagination. It should be noted that
philosophy either talks about religion or talks about politics. Outside of
these fields, philosophy falls silent or becomes a self-help book.
All political systems impose themselves with seductive ...
