Como costuma dizer o cientista político Carlos Melo, "o equilíbrio é uma arte; a bilis, uma danação". Lembrei dessa frase após a leitura do texto aí abaixo reproduzido. Traduzido, o seu título original estampa o seguinte: idealismo cego é reacionário. Na verdade, esta é uma assertiva do filósofo Frantz Fanon. Pois bem, é isso: seja em que lado for do campo político (direita, esquerda, centro, centro-direita, centro-esquerda... se é que isso tem significado no Brasil), a troca de argumentos por chavões, a mera repetição de retóricas (que logo tendem a assumir a condição de uma espécie de doutrina - como nas religiões), a substituição da força do argumento pela força sem argumento, a ênfase permanente nas posições extremas e o desprezo pelas posições mediadoras, etc., logo conduzem ao descrédito. Até mesmo quando se age anunciando-se que a ação é em função de "boas ideias" (idealismo deriva de ideia). Cai-se na danação, no reacionarismo e no atraso. Vale a leitura do texto, que se incia exatamente fazendo menção a um cartaz que alude o idealismo cego.
by Tom
McCarthy
I took this photo while walking along the
Highline one weekend because I enjoyed the design and thought it left a
powerful message. After researching the origins of the mural I learned the true
artist’s intent with the contents and where she stemmed her ideas from.
The mural was created by artist Barbara Kruger and it describes her view
on the world as a whole. The original quote comes from Afro-Caribbean
philosopher Frantz Fanon and is “Blind Idealism is Reactionary”. When Fanon
made this statement he was inferring that religious and political convictions
stem from situations from which they arise and not from human nature of
individuals. Barbara Kruger took it further by saying implying it’s not only
reactionary but more so scary. This means that convictions that people have can
and will cause conflicts between groups with other blind ideals. Then, she
takes it another step further to say it’s not only scary, but it is also
deadly. She relates this to the world in many ways specifically in the world of
terrorism and the political unrest in America we are seeing with this current
presidential campaign.
This pertains to our course on the basis of “American” “Religion”
“Texts” very accurately based on the material we have studied. In the beginning
of class we discussed the Spanish conquest of the indigenous people. Here there
were two different groups of people with their own idealism that stemmed from
their own upbringings and individual sense of religion and politics. As we
learned in class, there was an extraordinary amount of deaths and unjust
treatment from the Spanish conquerors on the native people. This continued
throughout history as different religions came to America and also during times
like the Civil Rights Movement. In modern times this mural can relate to the
conflict of terrorism from groups like ISIS. This group has shown to be deadly
through their warfare and suicide bombings across the world, which all stem
from their religious convictions. In retaliation many countries, including
America, have attacked the ISIS groups. Both sides have their own religious and
political convictions that have stemmed from prior situations and the outcome
has been extremely deadly. Candidates in the presidential campaign have been
using this sense of ‘blind idealism of reactionary’ to fuel their support base.
It is probably not in everyone’s human nature to go to war in the Middle East,
just as it is not probably in everyone’s human nature to riot and fight like we
have seen across America during campaign rallies. However, these events all
arise from certain situations that have given everyone their own religious and
political convictions. It is because of this that Kruger is fearful of the
world. She understands that these blind idealisms are not only reactionary but
have been proven throughout history to be incredibly deadly.
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Fonte: http://fordhamamericanreligioustexts.blogspot.com.br/2016/05/blind-idealism-is-by-tom-mccarthy.html
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