Using the word "Citizen Pedophilia" to mention to the formation of government is another manifestation of the degradation of the language of the public debate of tribal-tikotok times.
To discuss specified communication is to do harm – not to people who are depreciated, but to those affected, to the language itself, but besides to those who usage it, frequently unconsciously infect their own sensitivity with corrosive acid. alternatively of reasoning about how to offend an opponent, let's think about what is what we compare it to. Pedophilia is the heaviest and most disgusting crime, not the publicist. Volumes were written about utilizing words as tools of power. How is the change in the meaning of the words following the tightening of the Polish “speech” fight different from the 1 described by the selected authors?
Let us mention the concept of “cultural authority” of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci claimed that the exercise of power with conventional methods of governance is not essential to influence reality, and that the introduction of defined concepts as the acting individual wants plays a immense function in achieving this goal.
Postmodernists, referring to the “language theory” of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan They claimed that not only people talk words, but besides words talk for us. The language is simply a tool of power by which we describe the planet by valuing concepts and we are not even aware of why we take the affirmative and the negative.
With all the different concepts outlined above, in both cases the authors' thoughts concern the definition of concepts so that – colloquially writing – they associate differently with people.
The specificity of the Polish “tribal war” is that the attack on the language is an effect, not an intention – the intention of people utilizing utmost concepts or utmost associations is to attack the opponent. Effectively, language, to be a means of communication, becomes the victim of specified “communication”. In the course of the “tribal war”, concepts break distant from what they were meant to describe, they search fresh meanings, and they are frequently possessed by those whose creation of a fresh definition allows political existence. They're dangerous, but they besides frequently hurt not who they're targeted at, but who the harm plays, not truly curious in them.
Yes, there is simply a fundamental difference between condemning pedophilia and condemning a political opponent utilizing pedophilia. At the same time, the very concept of "pedophilia" means in both cases something different.
Pedophilia is simply a terrible crime, a violation of the most intimate sphere of the most susceptible beings. Pedophilia is simply a life sentence. At the same time, it's something so disgusting and so dense that you just can't lift it, carry its power to operate with a concept that describes it as an invector. You cannot shift this word “to the right and left” without taking it out of content, without filling it with emptiness, making it only suitable for insulting someone. And yet politicians want to bear this burden irresponsibly, like an anemic at cultural events. It's the least of the problems that they've got in the waste water. They're utilized to it. It's just worth reminding you that this is what happens. Yes, a politician utilizing pedophilia as a political weapon is not individual condemning pedophilia, but individual utilizing pedophilia.
The real problem is the failure of rank by words, by separation from the first meaning. This deprives people of the ability to describe monstrous phenomena with adequate concepts. "Pedophilia" and another words designed to dispel the most decision to semantic emptiness erstwhile utilized as a tank to fight a group of teenagers.
The Sources of hatred
Conditions conducive to “the tribal war” arise erstwhile people who for any reason are closer to 1 side or the another begin to radicalize, even in search of a sense of belonging. They become fans. On the 1 hand, they are willing to take as their most utmost narratives, on the another hand, they will repeat each view after their "theirs". The temperature of the ‘tribal war’ shall be heated by creating ‘myths’ within the meaning of Carla Schmitt, that is, moving spiritual categories to the political level. “Myths” are stories to which the appeal strengthens the sense of group identity – in Poland “Smolensk mit” confronted the story “the fight to overthrow the dictatorship”.
The sharpness of the conflict creating “the tribal war” is besides due to the transfer of the gravity point from the world-view dimension to the individual level. This besides creates its specificity, in which radicalism connects with cyclicalism, and fanaticism with nihilism. Lots of accusations, strong words, and at the same time guarding your place and your career, frontal and full attacks, and at the same time not so large worldview differences. The word "sowing hatred" has been degraded to the rank of a slogan, frequently utilized for people who simply request to separate right from wrong, victims from executioners, heroes from traitors. In this sense, “sow hatred” those who referred to the values that in any cases dictated uncompromisingness.
In view of the fact that the word “hate” by all cases changes the ideological tropicists of various “isms”, with “antisemitism” and “racism” at the head, with fear of being like them any people with right-wing views began to overlook the destructive rudeness and hatred that she brought to the Polish politics, specified as TVP Info, during the reigns Jack Kurski. Of course, the deficiency of criticism of what took place there was besides most likely due to the fear of “relenting the field” common to the right-wing opponents of all varieties.
This kind of buckets is poured out of the "information" tv Republika strips today. They simply impose a appropriate explanation of reality in specified a rude way that in a man who values the self-esteem of reasoning they origin opposition at the intellectual level. Information televisions were replaced by interpretative televisions. No 1 has to convince me that on the another hand we have various amateurs of political hunts and provokers like Strong Together, Grandma Kasi or Giertych, that the mental-ethical level of mainstream from the ceiling Jerzy Turowicz, Czesław Miłosz and Leszek Kołakowski fell a fewer degrees below zero, to sing together “J...ć PiS” and catch Jarosław KaczyńskiWhen he wants to honor his brother. I'll just ask, so what? If that's the case, we're all schambours?
The reservation I gotta make in order to clarify what I mean Grzegorz Braun. Well, as I mentioned, hatred escalates erstwhile the fight moves to the individual dimension. Ideological justifications are frequently simply rationalizing individual hostility. The views on individual matters change – only individual hostility remains. A politician-relativist on worldview is simply a politician-foundamentalist erstwhile it concerns individual hatred. "Hate" attributed to Braun is different than Jack Kurski's hatred, Łukasz Meyza or Dominika Tarczyński. On the 1 hand, let us not pretend that the erstwhile is not there, on the another hand – let us not confuse her with clarity, coupled with a conflict for matters. The fight for matters, the most expressive even that is different from fighting people and attacking children Tusk or “grandfather of the Wehrmacht”. It is not essential to separate between what a individual is liable for.
Vibre cessifiers
The "citizen's pedophilia" was beating in the eyes in all place of the Internet, possibly outside the sphere of interesting podcasts, which have respective 100 plays – and outside the dark net, due to the fact that there they equal to Polish politicians. "Citizen's pedophilia" was included in the title of the programme "Ziemkiewicz's journalistic hall" on tv Republika, about "citizen's pedophilia" Radosław Fogiel in "Rymanowski's Breakfast". Those who seemed to hold the heat of the current vomited in him, becoming bids. Hull your soul, “go with k...i”!
The problem is that those who want to shock again realize that now nothing shocks. If a “war state” is introduced all day, since the opponent is the personification of Stalin and Hitler, since “empty heads”, “distortion murders”, “fat” and “watah” are the ones who are against us, then we do not know what else to think of to become a better butcher. It is known that the political affiliation of the convicted individual should be reported. People have the right to know – likewise, they should not be disposed of with correct political information about "the emergence of crime among Russian-speaking people surviving in Poland". It is known that the organization should take a position and not avoid the subject. It is besides known that people on the left did the same procedure, shouting about “pedophiles in the sutans”, as if they were glad that hatred of the Catholic Church found justification.
The point is what lessons to learn from the information provided. Public opinion tends to measure intentions and intended actions by the prism of effect. What is it? It's kind of like the prison manager who let a prisoner go on leave who killed him in the process. The prisoner had a good reputation in prison, had tens of times on passes, during which he behaved without charge – at the same time hundreds of prisoners who had been given passes in the past behaved decently during their performance. Public opinion would surely attack the manager for contributing to the murder.
In fact, however, 1 could not blame him. nevertheless bad it sounds, it just happens – just like lightning strikes happen. The manager should be judged by the prism of what he could do and what he did not do and, possibly, to what degree he was guided by individual sympathy erstwhile making decisions. The organization and its leadership can be judged negatively if they boycott the signals they received, the more so if they cover for the man to whom the prosecutor's office formulated charges. It is not possible to condemn anyone due to the fact that there is individual in his surroundings who should be behind bars at the time. The reversed logic of “photos with the Pope” serves propaganda, to the detriment of the truth.
Analyst in the scenery World
Perhaps – 1 can not be sure, due to the fact that specified reasoning has not appeared anywhere – operating with the notion of "citizen pedophilia" say that parties like the Civic Coalition are more fertile dirt for people who harm children. At the same time, people's tendency to specified rationalizations, confused with the search for reasons, is evidenced by the the thesis of the Church as a vegetative sex life, and thus supposedly liberating pedophile tendencies. Not that I'm taking this thesis seriously, but it's worth a moment, even if it's expected to be in the head of those who usage pedophilia as a saber. What could be the origin of specified thinking? specified parties are non-ideoic, their main goal is power – and at the same time they glorify “modernity” understood as crossing borders, extracting from the loops of tradition. So – releasing brakes is simply easier than elsewhere.
Of course, drawing very concrete conclusions on the basis of specified vague premises is incorrect in itself. The conclusion on the origin is wrong, due to the fact that a certain effect can have many causes. Above all, pedophilia is simply a unique, highly disgusting phenomenon. Let us hazard the thesis that while killings are the consequence of extremes and exceeding any scale of human aggressive instincts, pedophilia is something "other"—not so much a improvement of any human trait, but an absolute denial of humanity. To describe its causes by referring to ordinary, or average human, environmental, social characteristics is doomed to make a cognitive error.
He erstwhile said Janusz Korwin-Mikke – I quote from memory – that the left is guided by sympathy and the right by principles. So – the right-wing optics on reality are intended to prevent a individual approach to this or another individual from being above what should normalize and order the world. I don't gotta add why I mention this – it's clear that these thoughts mention more to mechanisms and rules that make public life than to 1 organization or another. Many people wonder what political realism should mean in practice, the implications it has, how the individual manifestations of our action can aid to aid them. How can we usage political realism so that it does not become a “phobia” or a “branch”?
First, think in terms of causal-effectual relationships and get opposition to what I will describe as “moralistic-magic” thinking, i.e. full of moral atrap, bloating, and at the same time vague. Secondly, to measure circumstantial situations, to focus on detail, without making a mistake involving an instant "teleportation" from the full image to its tiny fragment – and the another way around.
Of course, it should be emphasized that politicians of the civilian Coalition themselves behaved in the full situation not as if they were hindered by the political usage of pedophilia – but as if they were hindered by the political usage of pedophilia erstwhile they turned against them. The very concept of "political usage of tragedy" is cited so frequently that this causes a problem of distinguishing 2 completely different situations. In the first – specified as this 1 described here – it is utilized to strike the opponent with facts that occurred close him, but with which nothing connects him and which he was not able to prevent. In the second situation, the accused politician or organization committed acts or allowed omissions that affected or impeded the occurrence of tragedy.
In this sense, claims to Donald Tusk and his organization about their attitude before and after the tragedy in Smolensk, i.e. about correspondence with Vladimir Putin about who should participate in the celebration of the Katyn crime and about giving investigation to the Russians are different than talking about "civil pedophilia". Of course, there are plenty of examples of “use of tragedy” and counterexamples of real mistakes made in relation to tragedy. It is definitely worth to separate these 2 situations. It is besides because, to put it this way, do not usage the political slogan “political exploitation”.
Is there truly no another way?
Isn't there any another way? due to the fact that we live in Tik-tok times, memes, information disappearing faster than they appear? It seems to me that any politicians can not only do otherwise, frequently with not the worst effects. They would besides be mentally and ethically incapable to get a septician certificate. Not everyone, surrounded by war criminals, will start shooting at civilians – and not everyone who moves around the planet will find it appropriate to call opponents "pedophiles".
You can't agree with Krzysztof Bosak or Marek Jurek in a 1000 cases, I myself was outraged at the relativization of the judaic genocide in Gaza by the latter. At the same time, if 1 seriously refers to a policy of value, if 1 believes that conservatism is not only a collection of slogans, but a holistic, multidimensional attitude is simply a way of practicing the policy of Bosak or Jurka will be closer to him than Kurski, Mejza or Tarczyński. The second are personifications of hard-headed, simple-headed (let's remember to separate “simple” from “simple man”!) screamers, bringing the right-wing worldview to hatred of Tusk. And, of course, to the function of perfect superstructure for career making.
In Channel Zero, a conversation was shown with the daughter of a deviant from Kłodzka, who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for pedophilia and zoophilia. This thing, a two-legged human being, the perpetrator of the Kłodzka horror movie had textbook psychopath traits. He caused emotional addiction, threatened that the closest girls would die if she did not give in to his disgusting practices, put on wiretaps, mounted devices to find the location of his closest people. Let's add that the police officer who was studying the evidence in this case had to start going to the psych ward.
These most basic, and at the same time the most crucial qualities that make us human become active erstwhile we are pierced by pain and compassion for a average young girl, mature over a century with sad and painful maturity. Compassion for her powerlessness, loneliness, heroism in defence of her loved ones (so that the degenerate focused on her and did not harm others – as we know today, and so did he). Compassion for repeated harm – after all, intellectual and physical torture was accompanied by a sense of acquired stigma, awareness of the choice between loneliness in suffering and the harm of loved ones.
Consider reliability, authenticity, sincerity of outrage. Well, it is hard to consider it as a consequence of the actual discrimination between good and bad erstwhile it is not accompanied by a sensitivity to harm. Yes, the sensitivity to harm is the starting point for outrage with action, frequently besides to outrage the perpetrator. Of course, the relation between the evaluation of an act and the evaluation of a individual is simply a subject for separate considerations – how much our actions make us, and how much they are the consequence of momentary weaknesses, circumstances (and how to separate 1 from another).
Most importantly, condemning evil must consequence from feeling good and delicate to it – otherwise it loses its moral dimension and becomes gossip, attack, propaganda, hatred. I am afraid that the native "political class" has reached a ceiling where sensitivity is perceived as weakness.
The ability to realize and reflect on the pain of the victim is simply a prerequisite for condemnation to the perpetrator to have a moral dimension and at the same time a power of destruction. Only a man who internalizes although in part the suffering of the wronged 1 retains the "connection" between condemnation and the strategy of values – only specified a individual acts in the name of ethics, based on distinguishing right from wrong. The specified condemnation of evil, without sensitivity to harm, of this essential component of good becomes the reflex of a screamer or, in worse cases, a calculating political player. specified a individual is incapable to realize what he actually condemns.
The girl with whom the conversation was conducted, as well as others harmed by the deviant from Kłodzka, are the most crucial people in the communicative – and they request to be preferred first if you do not want to treat the full case instrumentally. If the “presence” of 1 of the conflicted pages (those who usage the epithet “pedophile” and those who are referred to it) had any support, it would should be in knowing and feeling harm that the another side is not trying to understand. The point is that a man with specified qualities is not about “presence”. The declared “presence” of those who accuse opponents of being “pedophiles” lies in something completely independent of them – not being included in a 20 000-strong organization associate whose 1 activist received a conviction in the pedophile trial. The case does not build “presence”. fortunate luck is not a origin of pride. A man with a sense of specified stories will not act as if they were paying him off, as if a larger number of victims actually made it possible for a more effective political attack. Stories like this don't pay anybody.
Jacek Tomczak
Think Poland, No. 15-16 (12-19.04.2016)
