Urban violence is a direct daughter - and beloved-of social exclusion, loss of horizons and social goals for individuals and anomie that capitalism produces freed their own (wild) logic.
20 years of free market economy and destruction of the welfare state have transformed our large cities in a real "concrete jungles" much more violent than that beautiful black police filmed by John Huston in the 50s.
Impersonating the democratic state regulation of corporations and large private companies with the disappearance of politics as a field of debate and decision of the "res publica" and its replacement by large clusters of "communication" governing the public are an explosive combination that leaves the nation at the mercy of the government of select minority who hold economic power and media, transforming our democracies into a decorated cardboard mask after which the ins and outs of the powerful and their interests.
Theming systematic mass media on urban insecurity and crime goes beyond the sensationalism and the quest for higher ratings. We are entering a historical period in which the very existence of capitalism is being tested: its ability to produce wealth and socialize the majority of the population, to sustain its legitimacy as a system.
The discourse on public security crisis aims to exploit the notions of "common sense" or "simplistic thinking" of many social groups, which go beyond the middle classes. These individuals and groups whose psychology was dislocated by successive economic and social crisis are vulnerable to demagogic propaganda of the "iron fist" and the "discourse of order" in general. It is a symbolic compensation offered by the right, in exchange for economic security that the system can not provide. By the way, serves to channel aggression into "scapegoats" and divert it from its true purpose: those that led the nation into a bleak wrapped in flags of neoliberalism.
20 years of free market economy and destruction of the welfare state have transformed our large cities in a real "concrete jungles" much more violent than that beautiful black police filmed by John Huston in the 50s.
Impersonating the democratic state regulation of corporations and large private companies with the disappearance of politics as a field of debate and decision of the "res publica" and its replacement by large clusters of "communication" governing the public are an explosive combination that leaves the nation at the mercy of the government of select minority who hold economic power and media, transforming our democracies into a decorated cardboard mask after which the ins and outs of the powerful and their interests.
Theming systematic mass media on urban insecurity and crime goes beyond the sensationalism and the quest for higher ratings. We are entering a historical period in which the very existence of capitalism is being tested: its ability to produce wealth and socialize the majority of the population, to sustain its legitimacy as a system.
The discourse on public security crisis aims to exploit the notions of "common sense" or "simplistic thinking" of many social groups, which go beyond the middle classes. These individuals and groups whose psychology was dislocated by successive economic and social crisis are vulnerable to demagogic propaganda of the "iron fist" and the "discourse of order" in general. It is a symbolic compensation offered by the right, in exchange for economic security that the system can not provide. By the way, serves to channel aggression into "scapegoats" and divert it from its true purpose: those that led the nation into a bleak wrapped in flags of neoliberalism.
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