There is
nothing more unbearable for someone who suspects they are foolish than the
brilliance of others. Current academic education, the scientific formation of
each one of us, not just the youth—who, due to their age, believe themselves
knowledgeable about everything—, is determined by three inexhaustible and
inescapable facts, which must be reconciled with for our knowledge to survive.
These facts
teach us an anthropology lesson, among many others, of such magnitude that the
sociology of our current formation depends radically on them. I speak of three
undeniable realities: the intellectual arrogance demanded by every human being
today, public communication and interaction networks, and the ignorance of the
recipient who consumes all sorts of media content.
The basic
semiotic scheme is clearly discernible here, the one that structuralism,
ignoring Aristotle in his Rhetoric, immortalized as its own harvest: sender,
message, receiver. Arrogance, network, and ignorance. Naturally, by dynamizing
the process (let's not forget that structuralism was an absolutely static
idealistic formalism), transduction fully amplifies it, incessantly, ad
infinitum. One response leads to another, or several, with no possible end. The
subject changes, but the replicative mechanism lacks both pause and reflection
capacity.
However, the violent process involves the aforementioned three realities, which had never before combined in such an ...
