You, dear reader, of the sodium tíopentato, because there is no better serum of the truth than the past. After three decades dive to the knees in the study of utopian societies, the doctor in anthropology and professor Emilio Lara has diagnosed … finally the common evil that afflicts the very long list of happy arcadias that many other thinkers have imagined (sometimes materialized) for more than two thousand years. «Utopias tend to a perfect world, but reality is very stubborn. When you want to legislate everything to establish communities of photocopied people, you like with reality and you are sentenced to disaster, ”he explains to ABC. Examples have them handfuls. So many, as if to have lit the essay that presents these days: ‘The fangs of the sky‘(Ariel).
The Humanities also counts – a title that looks with special affection – that this evil contaminated all utopias; From the ideal society that Plato imagined for Athens, to that original communism that promised an earthly paradise for the proletariat and that, although long -lived, has resulted in a complete disaster. “Now the same thing happens to the ‘Wake’ culture,” Lara explains with that leisurely tone of the good teacher who longs to reach all his students. «Its members are fans who try to impose their criteria not from reason, but from a very primary emotion. They show a real contempt for history and are convinced that every feeling of grievance has to be repaired immediately, ”he adds.
It is loaded with arguments Lara. From his office, and with an unmistakable Jienense accent, he affirms that the “utopia ‘woke” is a kind of Disneyland that lives “of forging trenches and dividing society into two sides: pure and impure, good and bad.” There are no half inks for its members, just like there were not for the followers of one Robespierre, which will sound to them, and whose maxim was to “end physically” with their adversaries to light an ideal world. “They are not willing to debate, they seek the imposition,” he completes. But before great evils, he proposes a balm of Fierabrás proven for centuries: “This type of ideas must be opposed from common sense and from history.” And with persuasion, according to Apostille, never with a courage.
The expert speaks with the wisdom of which he knows a subject which list of Kings Goths: “Thirty years ago I had this book in the head, and houses a lot of me: Humanities, History, Philosophy, Travel, Music, Arts …” . Since the idea was sketched, it was clear that he did not want to study the utopias – “perfect societies that promise a horizon of equality and harmony” – from a theoretical or philosophical point of view; His analysis had to go further. The result traces common characteristics and great conclusions: “In the end, they are social experiments that use human beings as vocals by promising a paradise on earth, which, most of the time, are nothing but a sky with fangs.”
What is undeniable is that the great utopias started with Plato; And, as such, Lara opens the book with him. “It was a ‘Spin Doctor’ of the time, although that concept did not exist,” he explains. The philosopher hated the dictatorship, but considered democracy the “Government of the Chusma.” A dangerous concoction that led him to forge a mixed society in which each citizen was destined for concrete work according to their virtues: artisan, warrior or producer. His perspective of the Republic, Apostille Lara, “made him end up imprisoned and sold as a slave,” but he didn’t care. “That superb of the intellectual who wants to see his thought materialized, who knows better, is a common characteristic of all utopias,” he says.
Manipulators
Plato’s idyllic societies first, and Tomás Moro later, were castles in the air, but the same did not happen with many others who managed to become palpable. Lara maintains that one of the features that they shared thereafter was that of fanaticism: “The utopics have always argued that they are right in everything and that the world must fold to their way of seeing life.” The Catharsflawed of heretics, they are one of the many examples that analyzes in the essay. «Sexual relations despised because their end was procreation. For them, meat was something rotten. That would have focused on humanity to destruction, so I include them », complete.
The list continues, they are not created. All these utopia, explains convinced Lara, have been led by a large mass manipulator; A “fanatic thinker who, sometimes, accompanies psychopathy” with catastrophic results. «Some have no knowledge or care how the world works in practice. What they do is seek the construction of their paradise on Earth on a highway, ”he subscribes. The Anabaptists of the city of Münsterwho saw in a baker named Jan Matthys to his Messiah, are a palpable case. «Prophesized the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ to implement a new kingdom. He captivated society emotionally and even managed to enlarge with his followers until they were defeated, ”he adds.
Do you want another example of manipulative leadership? The teacher has it prepared: Lenin and communism. «Its base, historical materialism, is nothing other than a political religion, an emotional story with a formidable power of attraction where the oppressed, the victims of industrialization, an earthly paradise and a revenge against the bourgeoisie against the bourgeoisie », He says. In practice, however, it became a “horror system that Iosif Stalin later perfected.” In spite of everything, adds Lara, has become one of the longest utopias in history by continuing in force in countries like Cuba or China. Regions that “have become gigantic ‘Gulags'” and “have only brought economic ruin.”
Fascism, Nazism … is said pessimistic Lara; There are too many examples of utopias that have ended in disaster. Is there any that has worked? We ask. And it seems that yes: the Jesuit missions of Paraguay that sought to protect the Guarani Indians. «It was the only utopian society that worked, and occurred within the Spanish Empire. The experiment succeeded for several reasons: it was a collective utopia – it did not have a specific intellectual father – with a high level of pragmatism. They sought to flee from the Old World, which they considered perverted, and forge one new to the other side of the Atlantic », complete. He ended abruptly with his expulsion, he does not deny it, but extended for two hundred years. An optimistic way to finish an article, of course.
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