the day we wished everyone was a critic

most of the time we tend to complain when people who ignore what we do, criticize excessively our doings from said lack of background. that's when, defensively, we tend to sing the usual chorus, that already famous sentence: "everyone's a critic". we wish, however.

in this first world we inhabit, where almost everything can be recycled into entertainment, we are becoming less and less involved in reverse engineering any train of thought or manifestation of such. we watch things happen and nod to it, as the inevitable course of things. paradoxically, in this alleged society 2.0, where communications are supposed to be based on participation, life passes by as a show in which we are no longer involved, being reduced to a role of spectators.

it has come already. we have lost critic sense. no matter what you have to say, it doesn't matter much anymore. most of the intellectual streams flow downwards, and every argument is accepted or refused in terms of the authority that exposes it, not by arguing the reasoning itself. thus, matters are solved by deciding which authority dictates what to do with them, instead of discerning, analyzing and confronting the terms of conflict. rational thought is not encouraged. instead, citizens are expected to behave as consumers, but not just consumers of goods and services, but also of consumers of concepts, passively subjected to the downward stream of dogmas that enforce the idea of the goodness of power, the existence and need for better and worse people, the oligarchy and the peasantry, never allowed to oppose or even question the ideological support of said first class citizens.

the whole point of all this ideological cascade is getting out of our heads the need to question things, to own and encourage an analytic mindset that would allow us to improve as persons, not just in an economical or, for that matter, social plain. problems are solved by pointing out guilt, instead of searching for solutions, partly by cultural heritage, partly by the loss of that ability to discern, due to the lack or the cultural repression of the philosophical tools that help us unraveling the threads and order the complexity of our every conflicts in life.

rationalism is decreasing in numbers between our social layers, the common people, those some call peasants, more intentionally than it might have seen in a first place. in the new world order, multinational corporations are the new feudal kingdoms. their CEOs are the royalty, having politicians at their service. they control the world's resources and, through a complex system of subletting, have peasants back where they were at the good ole middle ages. of course, this system can barely sustain itself with a rational lower class. this would create an excessive discomfort in them that might as well ruin the whole organized scam of deregulated capitalism, the new feudal system.

in the world of shocking news in real time, reality shows where the behaviors of the mediocre are seen as a source of amusement, where the available culture is barely definable as entertainment, being a critic is considered as a questionable behavior. numbness is the rule, thought is the exception.