We are witnessing a calamityAs a result of the collapse in our world, the fall of the known and safe model; The symbolic order that governed the way we express our experiences has been disrupted. How is current culture incorporated into subjectivity? How does current subjectivity affect culture?
Ideals are performative, they are inscribed in the psyche as an effect of social discourse, the references by which we make sense of the world, modifying our subjectivity, the way we think and feel. Every idealist conforms to the ideal of perfection and devalues imperfection.
Discourse that raises the importance of differences from a hierarchical scheme, where one term is positively marked and the other negatively affected, hinders the evaluation of uniqueness, otherness and difference, hinders existence, especially in today’s adolescence, where exposure is higher.
Do teens today value the real subject or the ideal subject? Today’s teenagers still worship the ideal image of a being who must appear full, successful, happy, perfect, strong and must be successful on the networks.
Authoritarians don’t like this
The practice of professional and critical journalism is an essential pillar of democracy. This is why it bothers those who believe they are the bearers of the truth.
The consumption of networks is their mirrors, which dilutes their mirrors identity The difficulty of being present and not falling into the temptation of being present in others, which tempts him and exposes him to permanent dissatisfaction.
the Teenagers In their stories, they show the relationship between the grandiose ideal of the necessity of existing in order to belong and its reality in the absence of greatness that discourse devalues.
Let the phone be for communication and not for controlling our lives
When one listens to them, observes them, when one sees the facts, the violence, the loneliness that many people experience in their rooms, when one sees that online gambling has been around since childhood, that eating disorders have grown, that the suicide rate among young people has doubled, then that should give us a criterion that something is wrong, that the times are making an impact at this point, and that we should at least ask ourselves what is going on.
When possession is a requirement of being, a way of being is constructed that does not provide symbolic tools for recognition and appreciation of the singular desiring being.
When they do not know how to give up, when themselves are limited, from what the market demands, when they cannot tolerate lack, when one sees that they demand the silence of lack, in order to then belong to the world that seems perfect to them, one knows that disappointment, added to a reduced ability to tolerate frustration, will make them fall into acts of exposure closer to the death drive than the life drive.
What then is the diagnosis, as South Korean author, philosopher and essayist Byung-Chol Han suggests, in his various works, that today’s society is suffering from an overabundance of positivity, significant digital fatigue and a loss of contemplative life? I would add that it is often a society, akin to emptiness, where it irremediably seeks to hide the desire to be happy, to find immediate satisfaction, where effort seems to have no meaning, where matter turns into a constant temptation and where the lack of meaning in life is a common currency.
Children and adolescents have the right to be educated in the truth
This society of the void, where the volatile, the uncertain, the ambiguous and the complex are all we have today, in every sense of the word, we need to know that this affects our youth, who represent great structural fragility, as they experience intense suffering and great difficulty in managing their emotions, which can lead to impulsivity and self-destructive behaviours.
This manifests itself in serious diseases such as: Anorexiabulimia, drug addiction Or psychosomatics or Gambling addictionWhere the behavior has an immediate and destructive need.
Our teenagers’ identities are broken, and we have to strengthen their emotional muscles, and we have to talk about their suffering, or about a society that avoids expressing grief in words, because it confuses fragility with lack of power or lack of service.
We are faced with a society in a state of exhaustion, in a state of shock, or separation fatigue, resulting from information overload, where more and more privileged given the high demands, the networks, the noise, the excursions, the unnecessary, which does not work for depth, for the meaning of life, weigh people down. self Through the ephemeral and not the authentic.
Happiness then becomes out of reach for them, as the social imperative is to “be happy always and now,” and to be seen, displayed, given power, and not encouraged or given away means excluding many.
That is why we are talking today about the society of emptiness. Contemporary emptiness is a structural phenomenon that concerns us all, not individually. Failure is the loss of symbolic references, the loss of references, which generates searches to deify the Internet, Google declaring a doctor, networks are everything in life.
Hence what prevails is a society of numb negativity, like a new way of self, the negativity is hidden, disguised, in the society of fatigue, where I think I am making decisions, but I am not making anything, the algorithms are deciding for me.
The danger of everything is that the contemporary self is unable to bear deep connections, and therefore he falls into battles and wounds, and if his meetings become violent, because he does not know how to connect, he remains trapped in a single mirror that returns a false image that he believes is his standard, and not what it should be.
For all this, what is urgent today is the new generations, 1000 days for the first years of life to accompany the whole society, listening, teaching, playing, a time for childhood, contemplation, hands, attentive listening, a time to accompany them to fly, to work on life projects, to teach them to make decisions, to move away from screens, to understand the value of caring for others, to offer true ideals, to help them distinguish good and evil in the world of digital oblivion, our youth.
If we achieve all this, if we make subjects of secure association, if we are for the quality of time, if the law is the law, if trust in it is its value, we will produce new effects, then we will give life desire and we will be able to change history, simple as that.