Ignored and abandoned lives
08
Apr
The idea that there are wasted lives, present in many discourses of modernity Late who want to be postmodern, hide
the idea that there was a time that there was a “good society” that would provide employment for all, and there would be a queue of unemployed, he said verbatim: “The unemployed society of producers (including those temporarily away from the production line) may have been wretched and miserable, but their place in society was safe and questionable” (p. 22).
Cost to believe that the author of liquidity has so many readers and followers, he says that this “junk” or “human waste” is treated as a human condition rather than a lack of humanity and certain sectors of society.
Then its that he characterizes as “fear of the other” or “The cosmic fear is also the horror of the unknown, fear of uncertainty” (p. 61) are negative readings just a moment that this reversal occurs, the Other and the Infinite the philosopher Levinas is one of several references that same question, but with a positive reading.
What scares many net consciences of late modernity, is that the crowd of people emponderadas (empowerment) to share and build content and not only the masters learned that for all scholarship can not delve into real problems of post-modernity, and between them , simple people from the crowd, and people abandoned by society, condemned to an uncertain future as the young and to an abandoned dignity in the case of old.
It is increasingly common, especially in countries in crisis, that pensions are delayed or depreciated in their values, excluding a significant portion of society.
Under a welfare and gracious speech lurk often contempt for people of humble functions: street sweepers, cleaners, porters and other servants employees.
The last chapter of Bauman’s book is entitled “The trash culture,” says eternity and eternal return again a negative reading are guilty: “In infinity everything is recycled endlessly, as in the Hindu idea of eternal return and incarnation” (p. 118), and further makes a misleading reading of the late Middle Ages: “If the pre-modern life was a daily recitation of the infinitive duration of all things, with the exception of mortal existence, the liquid modern life is a daily recitation of the universal transience “(p. 120).
No concrete alternatives unless your longing of modernity, the author calls for a “culture of eternity,” his negativity reaches the limit when he said, “we live in the era of disengagement, distrust of oblivion” (p. 135) nothing less eternal.
Imitating a saying of Facebook is not enough to be a doctor and not compliment your doorman, add: ask your name and interest in your life, make him a real relationship.
Bauman, Z. wasted Lives, London: Zahar, 2005
