post-truth and post-morality: how do we define the impact of emotions on history?
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Post-truth and post-morality How do we define the impact of
emotions on history?
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and
the only history that is worth a tinkers’ dam is the history we make
today.
(Henry Ford, Chicago Tribune, May 25’1916)
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What is good?What is evil?
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What do football fans have in common?
We are strong, we won!
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Zygmunt Bauman. Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty, 2009
Morality is multifold and spontaneous. Post-morality creates post-truth...
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• Fighting – good Fighting gives meaning to life•Majority – evil• Emotions help us mobilize
recourсes
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Euromaidan – is an example of a united minority.
Post-morality unites people during the fight and separates afterwards.
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Harassment (terrorism, separatism) are manifestations of post-morality.Minorities can create closed groups. We know the truth and harass others.
We can be more influential than the majority or authorities.Direct communication between people is lost. War against all.
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Facts have no meaning!
Reconstructors. A Look into the Past. Facts replaced by nostalgia, fantasies and phobias to distract people from thinking about tomorrow.
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The twenty-first century is not characterized by the search for new-ness....
but by the proliferation of nostalgias . . . nostalgic nationalists and nostalgic
cosmopolitans, nostalgic environmentalists and nostalgic metrophiliacs (city lovers)
exchange pixel fire in the blogosphere
Svetlana Boym,Russian-American philosopher
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Greatness• Putin: dreams about the
renewed Russian Empire and Soviet Union;
• Trump: Make America great again
• Brexit: Let’s make Britain great again
• ISIS: The Caliphate is coming
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What can we do?
The only resource capable of transforming a desert in the land of Canaan is the confidence of the society members in each other, and the trust of all in the future they are going to share
Zygmunt Bauman11
What can we do?
• Build connections• Organize campaigns and activities
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