we Live within a revelation cushioned by the belief that we have new technologies that help us to understand the world. But we do not realize that these weapons of communication are managed by authoritarian governments that are driving the awareness and the freedom in the world. “The authoritarian are killing the future”, summed up this Tuesday, a situation that he described in his books, the essayist american Timothy Snyder in a conference that presented at the Rafael del Pino Foundation in Madrid, the road to no freedom (Gutenberg Galaxy).
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standing, with good humor, described different aspects of this revelation, which included, in various parts of your talk, the still recent entry of the far right of Vox in the local elections in Andalusia. Within some time, came to say, we will see Vox praising the role of Russia in the world. And it is Russia, with the permission of Donald Trump, whom Putin helped her to be president of the united States, which is handling the threads that discredit the practice of democracy in Europe and in the world, he said.
One of the goals of this partnership is the weakening of Europe as a unit. In reality, the Europe which gathered round the idea of being strong as a continent, says Snyder, is a set of items that all come from different empires, to come off, were gathered together to become more solid. Russia is spreading the idea that, to be strong again, those ancient states or imperial must recover his own personality. As does Russia itself.
Behind this conviction was the invasion of Ukraine, which he studied thoroughly in the book that presented last night.
To kill the future, these new authoritarian, in Russia, in the united Betpark States, in France, now in Spain, have decreed that there is not future; it is practiced the politics of the inevitable and eternal, and in this framework, the authoritarian decrees from where comes the threat. The threat comes from the outside, of the migrants, the countries must be preserved again, within its borders. The symbol of this autocracy is the wall that the advisers british Cambridge Analytica advised Trump that was built to separate the united States from Mexico.
Probably, Trump never build that wall, “because it is expensive”, but it gives the same: that metaphor, said Snyder, he serves as the president of the united States to pretend that it is, in effect, building a country that will inevitably be better. But that is a lie, he knows that is a lie. Just like he lied about his wealth and his power, he lies with regard to the future that says to be putting at the disposal of the americans.
Snyder, author of On tyranny, where he warns of how to fight from the citizenship and from the media, the assault of the lie in the networks, which are essential in periods recent election in the united States (and in parts of Europe), warned of something he abounds: “The technological progress led us to think that we were going to be best. It is not so”. The conduct of Russia and the seguidismo that makes united States of this reconstruction of the truth as a lie is severely affecting the democracy and, therefore, to freedom. In this world of falsehoods, said, “Russia is the capital of the Future”.
Snyder, who was born in Ohio 54 years ago, teaches at Yale and in Vienna, and is a specialist in Eastern Europe. Black earth, and On the tyranny are two of the books that most impact have had between all of his work.
