About ‘Homo Electoris’

Turning politics into a profession is in itself alienation. A man who knows how to do nothing but live at the expense of the state treasury slowly forgets what means all the effort citizen and every forced reality that others live. Eight hundred and forty-five members of the society are elected every five years to represent the will of the others who only elect them.

It seems that something bad happened to them from the moment they took office. endemic: the evil of government. A disease that ends throwing them out of all traces of what it would mean to be part of society.

Instead look modest, more burdened with the responsibilities of others, seem to rise to a pedestal above everyone else. After being bitten by that snake of public service, the poison is slowly introduced into their systems that forces them to distance themselves from the reality of their people, to hide within themselves living fantasies that other members of the community cannot share. . society. After being elected to public office, any cclass or hierarchy, You will no longer have to endure the realities of others; and the problem is not that I no longer live them, but that I completely forget them.

This tendency to bury deeply what was, makes them completely resist the possibility of retaking the place. just an institutionalized position which is occupied by the mere fact of birth: that of a citizen. Not wanting to be a citizen; there is a cause of the problem. They forget how they dress, how they eat, how they live, who, still harboring hope, has the nobility to choose them, waiting for the best days for their community. But these hopes were mostly dashed. That fruit is then accumulatedcitizen, as in a vacuum-sealed bottle, with gas pressure that cannot find an outlet. Despite this, those who are elected are still surprised that social outbursts are violent and uncontrollable, because they do not see themselves as the primary cause of it violent reaction.

All of the above also explains why government decisions are made that later conflict. honestly by the will of the majority; and the cause is a complete split between the reality that a few live and enjoy, and that many others only suffer. This lack of protagonism on the part of citizens leads to the deep distancing that we experience today.

The bursts and outpourings of that discontent which explodes from time to time might be resolved in a moment, but when the wounds are already so deep that hope and faith in rulers are lost, royal power overflows from its natural cause, causing havoc. .

Similar to nature, this innate power has always existed since nature and instinct govern man. We have become accustomed to seeing human beings as passive and obedient members of society’s rules; but when these rules no longer come from him, he suffers from progressive alienation, feels a lack of attachment to rules he does not recognize as his own. One day, sooner or later, the content of that frustration ends up violently erupting.

Erich Fromm tells us about “homo consumens”; that human being who has been created by mass marketing, who consumes what he hates, wears what he doesn’t want and does what he doesn’t like, just because the subliminal message factory has turned him into what big industries need: source of product consumption. Let’s imagine that something similar happens in politics.

Let’s think that whoever aspires to elected positions must necessarily perpetuate the needs, lack of education, hunger and misery, lack of development, chronic unhealthiness, obscurantism and superstition. In this way, he creates a perfect herd that only eats, reproduces and dies: “homo electoris”; a human being conceived and sustained in society with one sole purpose: to draw your valuable vote, every five years.