A new capitalism is emerging that could be called feelings capitalism. I notice this in the multiplication of information about the new trends of celebrating not only a divorce but even an abortion. Tomorrow we will celebrate a death? No, it is not necessary to organize an expensive party to announce that what was born with a joyful life decision ended in pain and separation. Or celebrate what could have been the fruit of a new life with the pain of an abortion.
Divorce yes. Abortion yes. The State would not have to intervene in the most intimate and secret decisions of the human heart. But neither should we celebrate with jewels, parties and champagne the sad end of what we had dreamed of for our future. In this, ultra-conservative churches and governments go against people's most sacred rights.
We live in a time of great transformations in the relationships between people, genders, family forms, ways of living, pleasure and pain and it is normal that this entails new ways of relating at all levels. But please, don't let the new and ferocious capitalism that devours us want to prostitute such intimate feelings, sometimes so painful, in personal and family relationships to turn them into profit.
I read, for example, that the trend of celebrating a divorce with a big party worth up to a million dollars is growing. And the poor? It is understandable that certain separations resulting, for example, from physical and psychological violence, are a relief for the victim of that relationship, which is usually the woman today. From this to celebrating a larger and more ostentatious party than the celebration of first love had been, there is a long way.
But since capitalism has no limits, it seems that celebrating a divorce with a lavish party is no longer enough. Now the fashion is to create new gold and diamond rings, changing fingers, to celebrate and show off not a new union that is expected to be less dramatic than the previous one, but happier. In the end it would actually be about celebrating a failure or the end of a painful situation in a violent relationship.
A party is always a celebration, a joy, and it can be the exit from the tunnel of a failed relationship or the beginning of a new relationship that is expected to be less traumatic and richer than the one we left abandoned. And yet, today, when there is so much talk about feelings, about difficult psychic states in a tumultuous world, it would be logical to be more careful not to turn the joy shouted from the waste of a party into joy, to enjoy in serenity the beginning of a new one. dream relationship as best.
I was always, even when it was considered a mortal sin, in favor not only of divorce but also of abortion, when people's situation had become hell. No one should be prevented by law from deciding about their own feelings. And I was always sure that no woman, not just in the face of the violence of rape, but in the face of an intimate and personal decision, would renounce a new life by celebrating it with champagne and a party. There are intimate pains that women and only they can understand in depth of feelings.
I do not see, so far, that, just as is happening with the festive and million-dollar celebration of divorces, capitalism has yet come to contaminate the serious decision of a woman to renounce the fruit of her womb. But I am also not sure that capitalism cannot reach that shore of horror.
It is true that our generation is in a moment of global change, which ranges from science and technology to the deepest world of feelings. All of this is true, it is unstoppable, as were all the radical changes of the past, but it would be better if, despite everything, there continued to be limits to certain deeper feelings and that a barrier be put up against the voracity of a capitalism that It drags everything, without stopping even before the most sacred feelings and even stimulating them with its advertising tricks of fashions and convictions.
To put it graphically: divorce yes, abortion yes, new forms of coexistence yes, but, please, without champagne, without bursts of parties and joy and without unnecessary waste of new luxurious jewelry to, in the end, show a failure. The old tempting demons of the rancid Catholicism of the past today bear the name of the new modern capitalism capable of embedding themselves in even the most intimate and painful fibers of human feelings. And the new demons that the still newborn artificial intelligence could create have not yet entered that scenario of capitalist exploitation. If there is a word that fits capitalism like a glove, both old and modern, it is voracity. It is never quite satiated. It will always be carnivorous.
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