Imagine a world where crucial decisions affecting our lives are not made by humans, but by a distant, inhuman entity. What if the policies governing our societies were not designed to understand us, but to impose a calculating order? Although this may sound like science fiction, this concept might not be so far from our reality.
Often, government decisions seem disconnected from human needs. People are relegated to mere cogs in a machine that does not respond to their concerns. Instead of being decisions made by people for people, we face something more distant.
What happens when a government acts contrary to what is right for individuals? We confront the possibility of an impersonal power that seeks not the welfare of its citizens, but the development of its own system. This kind of power ignores the complexities and nuances that make us human.
If you've arrived at this consideration, you should know that there exists a collective intuition that guides people along unforeseen paths in the face of unexpected events. It is the body of the population responding to interests and desires that are foreign or different from their nature. It is the collective unconscious in reaction. We are not separate individuals, as we are led to believe. We are spiritually interconnected and interrelated. A single being. One entity that feels what is good for all. This is the path of altruism you are traversing.
A government alien to humanity raises unsettling questions: Can we trust its decisions? Or is it simply a system operating with rules that don't understand our nature? The idea of a government that is not "human" becomes an existential threat, where autonomy, free will, and our emotional needs are left at the mercy of something incomprehensible.
Governments have become increasingly invasive towards the individual; we have evidently lost ground in our personal environment to the point of plunging into isolation in exchange for certain illusory comforts. All in the name of progress and social modernity. But to what extent does that progress reflect only the advantage of a few? The family as a singular image is a falsehood. It is not the nuclear family, but rather extended families or communities that we should aspire to.
We consider these current outcomes a form of illness. Some view it as an alien or hidden government acting against the individual. Yet it bears more symptoms of a disease. It is essential to consider these manifestations of power when analyzing the forms of discourse and practices of dominance.
The concept of community has been so diminished that it becomes evident how fragile everything is when isolated. The ultimate ideal of living alone upon reaching adulthood, or seeing it as synonymous with full independence, leads us down the wrong path of disunity and lack of integration. What kind of logic is it that fosters intolerance or a lack of familial understanding, if not the result of some sort of alienation? The larger the family, the more protected the individual feels. The more protected the individual, the freer they are. The more cohesive and gathered the family, the better they can defend against social aggressions. And the state is, in principle, a social aggression. If one seeks a sincere counterbalance, this is the way. The ideal of governments will always be the isolated individual, but in our understanding, this means their total subjugation because a lone ant, a lone opossum, or a lone bee facing the complex and indifferent biome will perish.
This is one of the dilemmas I explore in my science fiction novel "DEPRADAC, the Illness that Governs Us," where true power does not reside in human hands. An alien government, created or dominated by forces foreign to our species, presents challenges humanity has never faced before. We are not just talking about dehumanized bureaucratic structures, but about entities that see humans as a resource rather than as lives with intrinsic value.
In the end, the question arises: Have we reached a point where we no longer have control? I believe the characters must grapple with these uncertainties, confronting a government that does not understand or respect them. But what if we are already living under the rules of a system that does not comprehend who we truly are?
There is a certain pain in expressing these words because I, too, am trapped within.
