Hidden from History:The Canadian Holocaust
Canada 100.000 Duplessis Orphans who were abused, tortured and used in medical experiments such as lobotomies
Marcos Roitman Rosenmann: How did we get here? This is the question we should ask when political assassination, massacres, refugee camps, torture and dictatorships are justified. We should question ourselves every time political regimes that are executioners of their peoples are endorsed, renouncing the exercise of critical judgment that humanizes us. In this way millions of human beings are condemned to death.
The market economy is the trench from which the West fires its ideological missiles. Poverty, inequality, corruption, coups, make sense under this mantra. They are a resource to sponsor wars and administer justice. Friends and enemies. Some will die under the banner of freedom; the others do not even deserve the qualification of human beings. They only fit one adjective: criminals, rapists, beasts and thieves.
The West is balanced. His assassins are protected and released from charge. They are extolled and exonerated from responsibility. The world presents itself without contradictions. You must choose between Ukraine and Russia, Marie Le Pen or Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump or Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin or Volodymir Zelensky. Good or bad nuclear warheads, invasions of Panama or Ukraine. Extreme right or right. In short: them or us. The bad, the least bad. Capitalism with a human or savage face, but capitalism. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's phrase when referring to his Nicaraguan ally, the tyrant Anastasio Somoza, synthesizes the hypocrisy of the West: Somoza is a son of a bitch, but he is one of us and we will defend him.
Preeminent men of letters, culture, science and the arts are entangled in explanations to get the NATO countries out of the pool of blood, in which they are submerged, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They deny history, the past, memory, distort the facts and in a crooked manner explain that some kill and others defend their homeland. Some shoot bullets and others distribute candy. So there is no room for reflection. There is only one option: with me or against me. From there, it goes directly to justifying the shipment of weapons "for life." Weaponry that doesn't kill human beings, only invading Russians, soulless monsters.
His conception of good and evil is, shall we say, at least questionable. But they, with the smoking gun in their hands, act in self-defense, defend peace, and sponsor well-intentioned wars. In their different typologies, more than fifty wars are taking place, be they low intensity, hybrid, asymmetric or neocortical. But the West only has eyes for Ukraine. In Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa they deploy their weapons. Whether in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, Syria, Morocco, Chad, Kenya, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ethiopia or Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinian people.
The blinders are useful so as not to distract the passage of the yoked animals, which must follow the path marked out by the owner. They don't see their surroundings, they don't have a global vision, they just see what their master lets them see. This one, sometimes resorts to violence and punishment, others, to affection, to the prize. The carrot and stick doctrine. Fame, honors, medals, money are the carrot of power. To each according to his wishes. Everyone will have their reward in kind, according to their requests.
Knowledge of knowledge obliges. Under this premise, two outstanding neurobiologists of the 20th century, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, called to think about the consequences that, for the human condition, the acts of daily chores have under the most scandalous taboo present in Western culture: forbidden to know knowing. . Both neurobiologists deciphered how we know and then explained the indissoluble relationship between the biological and the social, the ethical and cooperation as the foundation of what is human. Thus they concluded: “It is not knowing that the bomb kills, but what we want to do with the bomb that determines whether we make it explode or not. This is commonly ignored or wants to be ignored in order to avoid the responsibility that falls on us in all our actions (...) Blind to this transcendence of our actions, we pretend that the world has a future independent of us that justifies the irresponsibility in them and we confuse the image that we seek to project, the role that we represent, with the being that we truly build in our daily lives”.
If we do not ask ourselves about the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction in its different forms, their shipment to the theaters of war, we are consciously renouncing the human condition. The process of dehumanization that is being experienced, of which all wars, including the invasion of Ukraine, are the result of a civilization of terror and death, should make us reconsider to fight against the new totalitarianism that emerges
If we do not ask ourselves about the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction in its different forms, their shipment to the theaters of war, we are consciously renouncing the human condition. The process of dehumanization that is being experienced, of which all wars, including the invasion of Ukraine, are the result of a civilization of terror and death, should make us reconsider to fight against the new emerging totalitarianism, whose emergence comes from a reason decadent culture that takes away the life and dignity of the human being.
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