The death instinct of competition
Assassins, as being angry and suicidal crisis
Robert Kurz, May 2002
few years ago it became current in the western world the term "massacre in schools." Schools, once places of education more or less authoritarian, eroticism of puberty and harmless pranks youth come increasingly in the field of view of the public sphere as a scene of bloody tragedies. Certainly, reports of murders known also furious about the past. But the bloody excesses of the current corresponds to a proper and new. They do not allow themselves to cover a fog of general anthropology. On the contrary, they are specific products of our contemporary society.
The quality of these new acts of murderous fury can be seen in various aspects. For example, there are events widely spaced in time, as in ages past, but here the massacres take place, the 90s, in a sequence more compact. Two other aspects are new. A large and disproportionate percentage of the authors is the young, including some children. Only a very small number of these killers furious suffer a mental disorder in the clinical sense, on the contrary, most are considered prior to the event, "normal" and well adapted. When the media note this fact, always with apparent surprise, indirectly and inadvertently admit that the "normality" of modern society brings with it the potential for acts of murderous fury.
attracting attention the global and universal character of this phenomenon. Began in the U.S.. In 1997, the city of West Paducah (Kentucky) 14 years of a teenager killed in gunfire after the prayer in the morning, three school friends, and five others were injured. In 1998, Jonesboro (Arkansas), a 11 year old boy and another 13 opened fire on their school, killing four girls and a teacher. In the same year, Springsfield (Oregon), a young 17 year old killed in shooting in a "high school" two comrades and wounded 20 others. A year later, two youths of 17 and 18 years caused the famous bloodbath in Littleton (Colorado): with guns and explosives killed 12 classmates in their school, a professor and, later, took their own lives.
In Europe, these massacres in schools were played from the start, even in the context of the traditional anti-Americanism, as a consequence of the cult of weapons of social Darwinism and the lack of social education in the United States. But the United States are entitled, in all respects, the model for the world of capitalist globalization, how soon you are going to show. In the small Canadian town of Taber, just a week later the case of Littleton, a teenager of 14 years shot in his neighborhood, killing a classmate. Other killings were reported in schools in the 90s in Scotland, Japan and several African countries. In Germany, in November 1999, a secondary student of 15 years killed his teacher, with two daggers in March 2000, a 16 year old boy killed in shooting after the director of the school and tried to commit suicide, in February 2001 , a young 22 year old killed with a revolver to his head and then the business manager of his former school and then finally he blew up a pipe by detonating explosives. The recent act of murderous rage of a young man of 19 years in Erfurt, that towards the end of April 2002, during the final examination of secondary education, with a bomb murdered 16 people (among them, almost the entire body teacher of his school) and immediately after he shot himself in the head, it was only the culmination, so far, a whole series.
media event
Of course, the phenomenon of tuna fishing in the schools can not be considered in isolation. The barbaric "culture of the act of murderous rage" has become for a time in many countries regulate a media event, the angry young shooters schools comprise only a segment of this social micro-explosions. The news agency over acts of murderous rage in every continent, however, can account for pain, because of their relative frequency, are accepted by the media only when they have a really spectacular effect. In this way, the Swiss in appearance to conventional sieve at the end of 2001 shots with an automatic pistol half cantonal parliament and then took his own life, he reached the celebrity world as much as the other French university graduates and unemployed, who a few months after he opened fire with two pistols at the Chamber Municipal Parisian satellite town of Nanterre, killing a local police eye.
If the act of armed killers furious special tuna fishing is more common in schools, both phenomena are in turn integrated into the larger context of a culture of violence within society, which is flooding the world in the course of globalization. They are part of this the numerous civil wars, virtual and manifest, the economy of plunder on all continents, the crime of mass armies, gathered in gangs in the poor suburbs, in the ghettos and slums, in general, it is the universal continuation of competition by other means . On the one hand, it is a culture of theft and murder, whose violence is directed towards others in the meantime, the authors take the "risk" of dying themselves. Simultaneously increase, on the other hand, even the Autoaggression immediate, as evidenced by rising rates of suicide among young people in many countries. At least in modern history is a novelty that suicide is practiced not only for individual despair but also in an organized and mass. In countries and cultures as far apart as USA, Switzerland, Germany and Uganda, the so-called "Seven Suicides" awakened several times in the 90's attention, in a macabre, for acts of collective suicide and ritualized.
As it seems, the murderous act is furious at the recent global culture of violence, aggression to other logical constraint and dell'autoaggressione, a kind of synthesis of murder and suicide staged. Most of the killers furious not only kill indiscriminately, but later also destroy their lives. It lists post-modern forms of violence begin to merge. The murderess for robbery is also a potential suicide; and the suicide potential is also potentially a violent murderess. Unlike acts of murder in furious pre-modern societies, it is not spasm, spontaneous access of fury mad, but long and carefully planned actions. The bourgeois subject is determined by 'self strategic and functional discipline, even if they fall into murderous madness. The robots are killers furious capitalist competition went out of control subjects of the crisis, they reveal the concept of the modern subject, the Enlightenment, in all its features.
suicide terrorism
Even a blind man in terms of social theory is to see the parallels with terrorists 11 September 2001 and the suicide bombers of the Palestinian Intifada. Many Western ideologues have attributed these alleged acts unconditionally, with manifest apology, the 'cultural alien "of Islam. Was said in the media willingly than the terrorists in New York, formed during consecutive years in Germany and the United States, which, despite the outward integration, "they reached the West" in terms of psychological and spiritual. The phenomenon of Islamic terrorism, with its suicide bombings, should the historical problem that has occurred in Islam, no age of enlightenment. The obvious affinity between the inner young killers Western and angry young Muslim suicide bombers demonstrates exactly the opposite.
Both phenomena belong to the context of capitalist globalization, are the result of "postmodern" last Enlightenment bourgeois right. And 'because reached the West in all aspects, that young Arab students developed becoming terrorists. In truth, the beginning of the twenty-first century, the West (read: the immediate one of the world market and its totalitarian subjectivity centered on competition) is in the midst of a major transformation and under specific conditions. But the difference in the conditions has more to do with the bill capital strength that diversity of cultures. Socializing capitalism today is not in any sub-continent, but primary and what was hypostatized postmodern ideologies as "cultural differences", mostly as a thin surface.
The diary of one of the killers in Littleton was furious looked under seven keys from U.S. authorities, not without reason. Thanks all'indiscrezione an official knows that the young criminal has noted, among other fantasies of violence, the following: "Why not steal a few moments in a plane and drop it on New York?" What an embarrassment! What appeared as a particularly nasty atrocity of the alien culture even before he had taken shape in the head of a product entirely emerged from the factory of "freedom and democracy." For a long time the official public sphere has also highlighted the information that a few weeks after September 11 in the U.S., a teenager of 15 years was launched on a building with a small plane. In all seriousness, the U.S. media claimed that the boy had swallowed an overdose of certain preparations against acne and, therefore, had suffered a temporary mental disorder. This explanation is a worthy product of Enlightenment philosophy in its last stage positivist.
In fact, the "death wish" is a social world Postmodernism is not tied to any particular cultural or social place. This impulse can not be found taking it as the mere sum of isolated and accidental phenomenon. Because what it really evokes the millions who practice moving with the same thoughts and emotions insoluble desperate and play with the same soft ideas. Only superficially Islamic terrorists are different from Western furious murderers individual claim with the political and religious reasons organized. Both are equally far from an "ideal" classic that could justify the sacrifice of themselves with real social objectives.
Compared to many new civil wars and vandalism in the central west, the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger found that "it is not nothing." To understand this, you must reverse the sentence: What is this nothing to it? It 's the total emptiness of the money raised to the end in itself, which now dominates the final existence as god of secular modernity. This reified God has in itself no social or sensitive content. All things and needs are not recognized in their own quality, but this is taken rather to "save", ie, to turn them into mere "Jelly" (Marx) of profitability and, thus, irrelevant material (gleich gültig- ).
Autoperdizione
E 'a deception to believe that the center of this universal competition and assertiveness of individuals. On the contrary, it is the death drive of capitalist subjectivity that comes to light as a last result. The more individuals to leave the competition empty metaphysical real capital, the more likely the consciousness slips into a situation that goes beyond the mere "risk" or "interest": the indifference towards all other indifference is converted to its I. Clues about this new quality of social indifference as "indifference to themselves" there were already at the beginning of the crisis in the first half of the twentieth century. The philosopher Hannah Arendt spoke in this sense of a culture of 'autoperdizione ", a" loss of self "of individuals uprooted, and a" weakening of the instinct of self "because of" feeling that nothing depends on oneself, one's own ego can be replaced by another at any time, anywhere. " That culture
dell'autoperdizione and repression that Hannah Arendt referred only to the totalitarian political regimes of the time they meet again today in a much purer form, in economic totalitarianism of globalized capital. What in the past was a state of emergency, it becomes normal and permanent: their daily "civilized" converts nell'autoperdizione full of men. This status does not affect only the poor and impoverished, but everyone, because the state has become dominant in world society. This is especially true for children and adolescents, who now do not have any criteria for comparison and no policy can be critical. It 's a loss of self identity and a loss of ability to judge the economic imperative in view of the dominator that characterizes both the bands of vandals, the kidnappers and criminals such as self-exploitation of the "new economy" or the sponsors' s financial "investment banking" .
What Hannah Arendt said on the assumptions of political totalitarianism is now the main task of the Journal school, to teach "out of the hands in the interest itself," to turn the children into productive machines abstract, more specifically, in "entrepreneurs of themselves" and therefore, without any guarantee. These children must learn that sacrifice at the altar of development and test, however, "pleasure" in it. The primary school pupils are already filled with drugs so they can compete in the "gains and losses." The result is a mind distressed by the sheer anti-social, in which self-assertion and self-destruction become identical. E 'is necessarily the murderess furious that the light behind the' AutoManager "of postmodernity. And the democracy of the market economy crying crocodile tears for his lost children, it teaches itself to be systematically monstrous autism.
translation by LPZ
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