The conflict and his social biology (9 min.).
Juan B. Lorenzo de Membiela
In «the dispute of the Sacrament"by Raphael, 1509 paint in the Vatican, the fathers of the Church are represented in controversial polemics. Different characters and temperaments are drawn, however, only concurs the unity of will and Word. Rafael was the definition of Nicholas of Cusa on divinity: "coincidentia oppositorum".
Simmel employs the message of this painting to symbolize that the unit does not preclude the diversity or the conflict (2010: 19).
The terms: creation and plagiarism, crisis and expansion, attraction and repulsion, sympathy and antipathy, are the result of divergent forces that necessarily arise in any social entity. The destruction not subtraction built, but, as a whole, integrates the end result. That is why it is positive.
But let the destruction as forced and positive option means to justify the inevitable barbarism in society. To Edgar Morin, for example, the brutality of the conquest and domination are any civilization that arise, even refined forms of culture (Morin, 2009: 18-9).
But admit it would lead us to justify a culture of death. The genocide, supported by Jews, as well by the Nazis in a systematic manner, either by Western society centuries ago: was through confinement in their cities; It was through inventions converted into truths by inertia once, as the poisoning of water wells to spread the plague or infanticide to use their blood in making the unleavened bread (cf.: Levi, 2000: 61).
And justify the Stalinist deportations to the Gulag in Siberia and psychiatric hospitals (cf. Herling-Grudzinski, 2012).
Or what happened in Katyn with Polish.
Or the vertigo of the depravity in the island of Nazino.
And justify the atrocities committed in Silesia against Catholic defeated German civilians and priests and religious. After the World War II, indifferent countries 'in victos' of the race (cf.: Kaps, 2008). Forgetting the leniency that the honor it imposes on the winner, as Alonso de Ercilla was:
« (…)It is not overcome only glory
nor is there the greatness and excellence
but to know how to use the Vitoria
illustrating more with the clemencia.».
And justify extreme conflicts of the war in Bosnia between 1992-1995.
And justify the cultural exiles on behalf of freedom and community consensus. Because in that intolerance takes refuge the destruction of thinking that prevents perceive its historic dimension, the man his spiritual career, to be aware of his truth and his freedom.
The French Revolution of 1789, for example, force one social class against another destructive, not only generated crimes, unjustifiable always, they broke with a hierarchy to be implemented by a different but equally hierarchical.
Rationalism was engine of this change that today, in the 21st century, we see languish. The error consisted of confused authoritarian power with the order. Only to conquer power.
There is no society without hierarchy and one built exclusively on freedom succumbs to hands of the dissolution, first of despotism, then (Röpke, 2010: 139).
Not all hierarchy is alienating but dispensed with all that implied a certain management giving way to the entropy of «emotionally instinctive». The truth became the underground heritage.
Western constitutions seek to preserve the individual's comprehensive of any power. Offer, at least in the text, a sphere of inalienable personal freedom against the constraints of the community and the State.
The revolutionary, destructive action offers edges confusing and unpredictable, because once started he immerses himself in what has been called the 'ecology of action» ((Morin, 2008,115).)
It except its author becomes independence, is penetrated by the random, random, disfigurement and, finally, the environment is who takes possession. It is uncontrollable. It is harmful to anyone.
Because there is no mastery of the complexity that cake thought, on the one hand, and the simple things on the other domain. The important thing in life is unexpected because we do not control the discovery, knowledge and action.
The destructive go to an unpredictable, never known, always bleak ending. It is not the architecture of something new, but the decadence of what exists. A short dead-end. The will to nothingness (Spengler, 2011: 143). A departure without arrival. A constant fall, a dry vacuum.
The creativity that builds avoids the narcotic of utopia to ravage.To generate the harmonic dissonance.
The man suffers from a characteristic of immature species infantilism. His 'naivety' given the existence speaks of its fragility. Indicates a decline of social behavior (Lorenz, 1975: 67). And this can leave us at the mercy of storms without direction.
As a species it has plunged into a competition so voracious that it avoids «power eternally active and sanadoramente creator». Determines its development as the most powerful biological factor preventing the good and useful to humanity as a whole (Lorenz, 1973).
The destruction does not advance: the destroyed busts of the Caesars of Rome have not erased his memory for eternity.
