https://www.barbadillo.it/104383-marcello-veneziani-contro-la-cappa-del-conformismo/
For a critique of the present, he enters the living things of the contemporary crisis . Bauman described contemporary man as the inhabitant , par excellence, of the crisis . This condition has, over time, not only corroded hopes for a possible change, but created a climate of widespread unease which, according to Veneziani, has finally taken on the face of an oppressive and pervasive hood: " We are short of breath , and we cannot say in what sense, in what way, why. It is as if we were under a hood"(P. 7). In this situation, the intelligibility of reality fails, we fail to grasp the dimension of meaning of life and of the world. The thickness, the consistency of reality are missing. Everything appears emptied, pervaded by the nullifying void. The unexpected break-up of the pandemic has radicalized the negative aspects of the Hood, causing an unprecedented restriction of the relational dimension of life.
The final outcome of this process is to be identified in the obscuration: " of all transcendence, all past and future " (p. 8). Thus life has been reduced to a mere present of production-consumption, dominated by the deus ex machina of liquid society, the Technique, whose domination appears to be indisputable because: " its growth without purpose prevails over control and motivation " (p. 9). The Cappa is, in any case, a product closely linked and connected to what Veneziani calls the Dome: « It is the ruling class that dominates society; the leaders of finance, technology, social media, health ”(p. 9), assisted in the creation of contemporary common sense, by the potentates of communication. In governance, which the French political scientist Guy Hermet defined, not by chance, the New Regime, the winter of democracy, the epidemic trait (in the Greek sense, superimposition of the apparatuses on the people) typical of liberal democracies, detected after World War II by the philosopher Andrea Emo.
What is very significant and serious, according to the author, is the stringent correspondence that has been established between our interiority and the external hood which, in this way: " touches the existential sphere and pervades minds, souls, permeates the Spirit of time "(p. 11), in a word it creates the culture broth of the mainstream , of the intellectually and politically correct. Everything appears in motion, without borders or limits: " the sexes cross over and change, differences fade and become uniform, nature is abolished, reality is revoked, territories lose their borders " (p. 11). Mainstream censorship applies to everything, of the only religion left on the square, that of "human rights". In essence, it is centered around the rejection of natural law, in the name of the self-determination of a subject reduced to Narcissus. It is up to him alone to "define himself" in one way or another. It is the transgender society , which dominates in every sphere, of the continuous flow . In it, Veneziani recalls, the idea of Nature has been removed, surreptitiously replaced with that of "environment". Such a removal has unbalanced the man-woman relationship itself, as the "femicides" show. The emphasis placed on gender-based violence, in reality, is aimed at depriving the institution of the family, the last vehicle of Tradition, of credibility: " in the face of a few thousand cases of violence […] at home, there are millions of traditional families and couples who do not know violence”(p. 45). While on the one hand, the miserable practice of the rented uterus appears legitimate to common sense, biopolitics makes the defense of the health of the body its own religion. After all: " in the name of health in danger, as we have experienced, it is possible to revoke freedom [...] the Constitution and democracy " (p. 51). More at the link above.
Veneziani is on the political right of Italian politics. Agamben once viewed as on the Left. Interesting how the concern they share of psychpolitics is ignored -psychopolitics : " power that shapes and seduces minds.
Agamben-Love has been abolished
Love has been abolished
in the name of health
, then health will be abolished.
Freedom has been abolished
in the name of medicine
, then medicine will be abolished.
God has been abolished
in the name of reason
, then reason will be abolished.
Man has been abolished
in the name of life
, then life will be abolished.
Truth has been abolished
in the name of information
but information will not be abolished.
The constitution was abolished
in the name of the emergency
but the emergency will not be abolished.
November 6
Giorgio Agamben