THE «YES BWANA» REPECHAGE

THE INDISCUTABLE DEMAND

The quick, submissive, automatic response, without the option of reply, to the indisputable demand, or categorical imperative, is reappearing, unthinkably, in societies where servility seemed to have been overcome; The insidious power seeks to establish it as an “ethical” norm of mandatory compliance.
The “yes bwana” is not a cliché, but an automatic reaction of vassalage; The «order and command» cancels the postponement to analyze the basis and the possible revocation, allegation, limitation or, also, the refusal. This form of “abandoning oneself” remains in force, with “ethical” consistency, in moldable or superstitious societies (“banana republics”) where the dogmatic has more room than the pragmatic and therefore, more exposed to the directed conduction of thought. So, in minds with little intellectual fervor, the “doctrine” of submission is instilled in a continuous and subliminal manner: the “immediately” of the paradigmatic superior entity and almost always, of “excellent” condition. (“For so-and-so, I sign, in blank; what he asks me to do is “go to mass.”)

Kant is convinced that everything he forces, without the option of reply, exceeds the red line of ethics. For this reason, it ends up framing within its space, only what can be debated, appealed and subject to conditions: “Help others, if you want to have friends.” «Think before you sign.» “I don’t just comply; You explain it to me, I evaluate it and decide.” The unappealable would be disconnected, not only from the ethical, but also from the aesthetic.
In my opinion, the greatest force to reestablish ethics, where it does not exist, would be neither more nor less than “educate, educate, educate and educate” to remove from inertia the ability to discern and promote the dismantling of myths, superstitions. , rituals, magic, occultism, power, omertá, fear, fanaticism, political extortion Without a doubt, education would be the most powerful weapon to achieve social leveling and the argumentative disposition, consensual, irrevocable and universal, to settle strategies in a context of political asepsis, where educational plans are conceived to illuminate the mind and not to wash it.

Doctorpoeta is “caught” confessing and parking to God…