On the "Inevitability" of Neoliberalism and Privatization
The greatest defeat one can suffer is that which one self-imposes--the defeat of the spirit. Any idea or thought that makes an individual reduce their intention of action, weakens him/her as a rational being and moral figure. It is perhaps for this reason that the largest conquests that have occurred in human history tended to have psychological structures of "the inevitable" as their foundation that, when internalized, paralyzes all opposition and is therefore able to extend itself as quickly as the Black Plague of Medieval Europe. Hitler knew this phenomenon as "propaganda". The Aztecs were able to rapidly expand onto neighboring territories due to the belief that, without the great number human sacrifices, the sun would "inevitably" stop appearing. The Catholic Church modified greek ideas to sustain the 'inevitability' of Hell for non-believers. In recent centuries, slavery imposed upon the african race an "inevitable inferiority", from which it still suffers today. Similarly, we have been confronting during the last two decades a new totalizing ideology that seeks to demolish all that stand in its way: neoliberlaism. In a talk by an Oxford graduate the other day, the speaker adjudicated the 'inevitability" of neoliberlaism, claiming that we all had to "accept this new reality that was coming whether we wanted to or not" (paraphrase). Ironically, similar ideas had been made by communists a quarter of a century ago; the world would "inevitably" convert to Communism. Copy-cats. Although all ideational structures (paradigms in other terms) tend to have ideological elements, this type of 'ideology', in the most negative sense of the word, is extremely injurious because it pretends to naturalize that which is contingent in the social order. In the end, it is sheer intellecual dishonesty; it restrains the "free choice" of diverse social orders, which certainly is the right of any sovereign nation.