Do you sometimes look at the statements of the candidates to search our votes in the upcoming (if they are actually held within a constitutional deadline) parliamentary elections?
They are truly hard to perceive to: the wooden language and the slanting language, the reflection and any thought almost completely lacking, but you have frequently held advanced expectations of each other. These faces, which in a minute will be dealing with us with greater than usual strength with their outpourings and banal statements, bad bon motamis and stupid touches on the adversaries from another groups, are – as in controlled democracy – reflecting the tastes of a large part of society. That's what our people are like. And there's nothing we can do about it overnight, even if we want to.
Many volumes have been created in fresh years on increasing wealth stratification, which, in the opinion of most economists, is not conducive to development, especially in the long term. Social exclusion of full groups, and even any of the nations, is an unwanted, unintended effect of neoliberalism. Meanwhile, small is said and written about the increasing intellectual dissection of societies, including ours. There have been no technological monographs or even more comprehensive analyses. However, the problem exists and is not little crucial than the issue of property fragmentation, sometimes intertwining with it.
In general, we can divide our society into three, definitely unequal in terms of both the size and the influence of categories. Let's start with the majority. The process of socialization has long been inherent in the process of imbecileization. Let us remind that according to sociologists and social psychologists, we are subjected to this socialization from the youngest years throughout our lives. After 1989, the Polish school was degenerated mainly by introducing superficially interpreted pedagogical and educational fashions from the alleged West. The parents of the "educated" generation at the time were besides busy tying the material end to the end, besides stressed by the possible of losing their jobs and savings as a consequence of successive acts of transformation and restructuring (in fact periphery) of the Polish economy, to devote time and attention to correcting falseness and catching up with shortcomings arising in a degradable geometrical school. As a result, a generation of people not only under-educated but besides not seeing any sense in intellectual improvement grew. Sinked from tv screens at the time, the model of life actually came down to showing that "not a matura, but a desire to be honest would make you a millionaire."
And it did. The Troglodytes became the compradorary administrators of the national property sold to power. And they were rich fabulously, and it was material wealth that became the goal of human existence itself. These people present have children whose ability to concentrate is limited to ten-second online videos filled with sleazes and a lame sense of humor. They are no longer socialized by a school that has long fallen as an institution that shapes critical thinking. Their parents don't socialize, they're intellectually limited. Social networking and peer groups do it.
Some of these people then usually make random political choices. He votes for himself, for we have long been disproved of all authority, and intellectually stronger individuals have become considered life's failures, and sometimes even people who deviate from the general standard. A tiny group of Comprador elites included individuals who were educated reasonably one-dimensionally, but who were able to manage their assets in an global way. This is most frequently the group we called method intelligence in the erstwhile system, and present we call the management class. announcement that most of them boast about their studies and courses abroad. It is not only the effect of symbolic subordination and dominance by the alleged West, but besides the deficiency of assurance of their powerholders in the devastated Polish education system.
There is inactive the least many and least influential 3rd group. I presume that the vast majority of readers of “Polish Thought” originate from it. They are people capable of reasoning independently, educating themselves, seeking and, above all, ready for a critical look at the reality around us. They may have different views on a number of cases, but together they form something that can be described as an information countersystem. At the minute of solstice, possibly caused by external shocks, they could be the future counter-elite. For this to be possible, however, they must go into the people: to take care of the extraction from the intellectual dementia of the first, the largest of the groups of which our nation present consists.
Mateusz Piskorski
Think Poland, No. 31-32 (30.07-6.08.2023)
