collage image and text, made by me in March 2020
"invaded the mind and that's worse"
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The practices of conquest and domination of some cultures over others has been a palpable reality in the long human experience.
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These ideas sometimes do not correspond to a Machiavellian and evil mind but to the result of certain conditions in society that generate those thoughts and attitudes unconsciously. To the point of making thoughts like "it is normal that my civilization is better than yours, we have better things and we are better because X and Z ..." thus justifying the violent invasion of territories and societies.
In previous centuries the criticism of these practices did not have the media impact of today, since ethics served the interests of dominant groups and the military armament in the name of a state fully justified the conquest, "whoever can, wins,"
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It is only in the XIX, XX and XXI centuries that the criticism of colonizing practice monopolizes the focus, creating mechanisms to increase a certain sense of autonomy in various nations. Example of this, the processes of colonial independence.
Faced with this reality, the cultures of the colonizing order were rethinking the mechanisms of domination. It is no longer favorable for me to invade a territory violently, I must be more subtle, less evident, because otherwise it looks ugly, I cannot be such a shameless conqueror, or can I?
Thus the ideological means for invasion would begin to develop progressively with more force than before, religion, language, taste, desire, rhythm, taste, the idea of beauty, the notion of development and underdevelopment, the idea of first world and then the others, political practices, images, sounds, aesthetics ... everything begins to progressively transform as a function of projecting the interests of the dominant society into local cultures.
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In modern times the most effective invasion is the conquest of the mind, the colonization of thought, as they would say. It is less evident and with a high effectiveness rate.
There is no need for bombs and soldiers to arrive from the sky. The invasion began many years ago. We already think of ourselves through the eyes of others.
But wait because it is that same thought that creates the crack to subvert it, it is in the attitude of domination that your counterpart is brewing. The independence.
gracias por leerme , soy Kelvin Arévalo un joven Antropólogo venezolano, iniciando en Hive, cualquier aporte, crítica o sugerencia haz tu comentario. mi intención es la de crear espacios para la discusión y el debate de ideas que estimulen el pensamiento crítico.
Thanks for reading, I am Kelvin Arévalo, a young Venezuelan anthropologist, starting at Hive, any contribution, criticism or suggestion make your comment. my intention is to create spaces for discussion and debate of ideas that stimulate critical thinking.
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