As a girl, I did not think that a game of chairs could be similar to the political arena. We danced around them, placed in a horizontal line, but in the opposite position, which made it difficult to find a free seat when the music stopped. With one seat missing in each round, there was always some would-be scoundrel pushing, jumping on others or moving chairs to sit, mocking the rules and the contestants.

I remembered that in this chaotic February, which asks us to be political consumers by force, in an attempt to imagine the unfolding of the processes that are apparently underway: the trial of President Las, the activation of the cross of death, mobilization, etc.

Recall?

Popular sectors will gather in days of protest from March 7 to “demand” the resignation of Guillermo Lasso as president

For experts in the field of psychology, a scoundrel is someone who moves in areas of power and money. Unable to discern his relationship to evil, he realizes it without any moral scruples, legitimized by his own satisfaction. He doesn’t feel guilty, nothing takes his sleep; it does not stop in its gluttony, regardless of lives, bodies and subjectivities. He feels that he owes nothing, he is not ashamed and does not care about the consequences for others. He does not question his life and protects himself with alibis, so as not to be surprised. He also has no doubts and since impunity is in his favor, he confirms that he can live without the law, that the law does not apply in his case; that is his law. This in turn makes others fear, respect or admire you.

A foreign columnist defined the series about P. Escobar as an escalation of power and impunity and told that after the plane exploded, in Escobar’s attempt to assassinate President Gaviria, the drug trafficker’s mother asked her daughter-in-law: “He’s not, REAL? He wouldn’t have taken off the plane into the air.” The daughter-in-law answers: “Of course it is. He would have his reasons.”

Lances cannot be untied, and like Gordian knots, they can only be cut, Bauman predicted.

Reasons or drives of death? It is true that we live among scoundrels, who are not bound by the ties of civilization that humanize us and that generate an ethic of care for others. At the risk of repeating myself, I return to the strong warning of philosophers from the beginning of the 21st century: the new invisible form of evil is to think of oneself as a moral person when one is not, along with a state that surrenders or surrenders to that evil.

Blinded by the glow of evil, we overlook the slippery slope just beyond the threshold, points out Z. Bauman, alluding to schismatic chains (actions and reactions that increase the persistence and aggression of those involved and deepen the chasm that separates them). : “a double-edged sword, the act of inflicting pain on others undoubtedly degrades and corrupts the perpetrator. Those who suffer pain do not emerge morally unscathed from their ordeal.

Lances cannot be untied, and like Gordian knots, they can only be cut, Bauman predicted. And I wonder if the political will and a strong civil society would be enough for that, because we don’t just lack the sword; We miss Alexander the Great.

Coincidence or not, I can hear the Cambalache tango from afar: “What a lack of respect, what a violation of reason! / Everyone is a master, everyone is a thief”. (OR)