03 Jan The things I learned while assurance doesn’t come

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Beware: there is spoiler !!

I don't know if it was a deliberate coincidence that the work of George Orwell and 
Wonder Woman 1984 were set in the same year. I only know that I loved it. 
In the film starring Linda Carter's successor (who appears gracefully at the end), 
a greedy businessman tries to steal an ancient stone  created by the gods for world domination. The phrase he says on tv
"Life is good, but it can be better" makes a clear allusion to the motivation and 
coaching industry that has taken unbridled directions today. Granting people's deepest 
desires and, in turn, increasing their personal power, the stone even makes the 
heroine exercise her detachment.
 Orwell envisioned the current world, highly connected with social networks and 
the state watching everything. The scene in which he uses the satellite to speak to the 
whole world, is an allusion to the domination of networks today.
The film, released in the midst of the pandemic, could not have predicted that 
it would be related to the current moment.
In the end, everyone renounces their desire to save the world.
 In Covid's time, nothing is more collective and empathic than giving up something for 
a greater good.
We renounce meetings, dinners, trips. We renounce kisses, hugs, meetings.
Jorge Forbes wrote a book entitled "Do you want what you want?",
 from a Lacan perspective. In a globalized world, we are bombarded with always wanting more 
and more. We consume, we get sick, we go back to consuming. while what you really want is 
something mature, conscious.
In the film you can also see the issue of non-therapeutized villains, 
with untreated hurts and frustrations and who place on a stone the hope of 
achieving something without their own toil, generating a kind of idolatry for power.
 I see people like that on a daily basis. Without working their fears and neuroses on a couch,
 these are deposited in fame, positions, positions and amazement, even imported bags,
 becoming a mask. And as this always falls, these individuals run over themselves, 
bumping into themselves.
They only go to therapy as a last  resource, when thoughts and feelings are in the emergency room..
While certainty does not come, I learned that I prefer my couch to bombard my neuroses in inocent people..
The couch does not go out of style and gives it true power, that of personal domination.
Money belt doesn't suit me.
Neither shoulder pads . Nor blue shade. Nor clochard pants. But let's leave those things in 1984.


25/12/2020