On the immediacy of modern protests

Colonial enclaves were simply dominated; the the opinion of the conquered population It mattered little or nothing, because brute force prevailed.

For this reason, local customs were changed, consumption of autochthonous food was forbidden, traditions were eradicated, in order to erase from the collective memory what could have united the conquered population. The artificial needsas a new form of domination.

They were given all kinds of necessities that they did not need: distilled drinks where they drank chicha; processed sugar, where they used honey; complex religion, to devastate “primitive” cults; laboratory drugs, to supplant traditional drugs; he a doctor in exchange for a shaman. Populations that had changed little, but had led full lives for millennia, were now subject to the rules of civilization, which were strictly imposed by the colonizing nations.

Simple actions the rebellion began to eat awayFor example, those very traditional dishes that were now banned; or wearing traditional suits, instead of the jacket and tie that were part of the new etiquette they wanted to impose, as a form of control. Today, the iron hand of brutal colonization is rare and no longer used, with rare exceptions. Now every mobile phone has the ability to expose in real time.

We get more news from the networks than from the news, and the truth is that we even trust them more, even when they might be less reliable. Sometimes you prefer to believe in what you want rather than what you owe. We live, therefore, in a world of immediacy in updating. What is said has the capacity to reach thousands and millions without the diplomatic virtue of editing. This is why even bloody regimes bleed quickly because of that big wound which Spontaneous anonymous disclosure advises them.

This reality in which we live, with all its faults and virtues, has therefore also changed the way in which those in power communicate with the people. The popular answer today is reactive and spoken immediately electronic sentences that manifest dictation public supervision of rulers. They are worth listening to, they are worth understanding; It is a new form of response to acts of power, which are received with immediate applause or rejected with protest. Online protest is just as valid and effective, sometimes, as in-person protest.

Both seem to be organic, symbiotic; as if it is Today’s societies were like those swarms, whose members establish communication via special pheromones, only we now do it via mobile phones, via servers, via the Internet. The immediacy of the protest, which is not waiting for the wet mechanism of the printing presses, nor the trembling vibrations of the Hertzian voice of the radio, nor the information shows on the screens competing for satellite signals.

The world has changed. The pressure of protest They are no longer limited to the country of the protestors, but sometimes become causes that reach beyond the walls of the countries, which are globalized and accepted by other citizens, from other nations.

The issue of mining caused protests of a different kind; protests that are emporium and creation of the modern generation, in which individual leadership has already been reduced to nothing and even discarded. The unity of feeling is now spreading among themselves like a fire, without anyone actually igniting it. Hence the difficulties we face when trying to reconcile these causes. truly collective; because suggestions and dialogueswithout central points and without leaders who unite what is scattered and without a owner.