The naked man
Protagoras of PLATO

Maria Lagrange 07/14/2011

There was a time when the gods already existed while all the mortal species were not. When the time for the birth of all species arrived, set by destiny, the gods manufactured them within the earth, making a mixture of earth and fire and everything that mixes with fire and earth. Then, when it was time to produce the light, the gods commissioned Prometheus and Epimetheus to divide the capacities between each of them in good order and convenience.
Epimetheus insisted that Prometheus leave him alone to operate the distribution: "When it will be finished you will control it." Having thus convinced him, he went about his division. He gave some strength without speed and gave speed to the weakest; he armed some and for those he endowed with an unarmed nature, he gave them some other capacity for survival.
To those that he clothed in trifles, he gave wings so that they could escape, or else the ability to live in underground hiding places; Those whose stature was increased was proportionally in charge of ensuring their preservation; compensating in its distribution all the other capacities in the same way. Its operation was carried out in order to avoid the extinction of any species; and after having given them the means of escaping from mutual destruction, he also took care of equipping them for the stations of Zeus: he covered them with dense fur, with thick fur, with thermal protection against both cold and great heat, constituting at the time of sleeping a natural bed for each one; Some were shod with hooves and hooves, others had thick skin and emptied of blood. Then he gave each one a different food, for some the herbs of the earth, for others the fruits of the trees, and for others the roots; there were also those to whom he gave the meat of the other animals; to those, he accorded a less numerous progeny than to their food, to which he accorded an abundant progeny that ensures the safeguarding of their species.
However, as Epimetheus was not exactly a great sage, without realizing it, he had spent all his abilities on the animal species that did not speak, while he still had the human species that had not yet received anything and that frankly he did not know what to do.
When Prometheus arrived for his inspection, he found Epimetheus concerned about his situation and found that all living beings were harmoniously provided with everything, but that the man was naked, without shoes, without covering, without weapons; being already the day fixed by the destiny, in which the man had to leave the earth and appear to the light. Faced with this inconvenience, ignoring how he could do to preserve man, Prometheus went and stole the technical knowledge of Hephaistos and Athena and also their fire - since, without fire, there was no way to acquire, or to use knowledge- and gave it to the man. In this way man has in his power the knowledge that concerns life itself, but he did not possess the political knowledge; in effect, it was in the domain of Zeus. Then, Prometheus who no longer had time to enter the Acropolis where Zeus lived, also guarded by its fierce guardians; he managed at least to get into the common chambers of Hephaistos and Athena where they both liked to practice their arts. He stole the art of using the Fire that belonged to Hephaistos, and the Art (of the creativity of knowledge) of Athena and gave them to men. Thus, man was well equipped for his survival and Prometheus was accused of theft because of Epimetheus' incompetence.
Due to the awareness that man had of possessing his part of the divine lot, he believed himself to be the only one similar to a god because he was the only one of all living beings capable of recognizing the gods, and thus began to manufacture altars, temples and statues of gods; then thanks to "Art", it did not take long to create sounds and articulate words, invent rooms, clothing, footwear, coverings and food that came from the earth.
Thus equipped, at first, men lived scattered and without cities; they succumbed to the attacks of wild animals because they were much weaker than them, because although the artisan art was a sufficient help to ensure food, it was insufficient to protect themselves from the attacks of wild beasts.
Indeed, the reason was that they did not yet possess the art of politics, of which war is a part. They sought, of course, to meet among themselves to safeguard their survival and to this end they founded cities. But every time they were all gathered, they behaved in an unfair way with the others, lacking the art of politics, always causing everyone to disperse and perish.
Then Zeus, fearing that our species will be finally extinct, sent Hermes to bring Shame and Justice to humanity, and thus constitute the "Order of the City", based on the ties of "Friendship" which is the solidarity ligament that should bring men together.
Hermes then asks Zeus, in what way should he make the gift to the men of Justice and Shame: "Should I distribute them in the same way that the arts were distributed? The repetition of the same was operated in the following way: a single man who possesses the art of medicine is enough for a large number of laymen, and the same is for all other craftsmen. Should I then distribute Justice and Shame among men in the same way, or should I distribute it among all?
Zeus replied: “Distribute them among all, and let all take part; because there can be no City, if only a small group of men participate, as in the case of the other arts; and it establishes in my name the following law: that the human who is shown incapable of assuming his part of Justice and Shame be eliminated, like a scourge of the city ”.

Hermes message

The slogan most demanded by the macrista electorate is the promise of depoliticizing the public debate. Calling it intellectualism, in-pragmatic and anti-media, Macri's campaigners despise the “res-publica” (collective construction of the public thing or everyone's questions) and treat with disdain the foundation of the art of the polis (politics ). Thus, they benefit the ancient art of authoritarian and masculinist paternalism, which delegates the reunion of the various family components to the Power of the Provider and Almighty Father. Since the world is world, fear faces trust and generates followers in both fields.
As far as we are concerned in Buenos Aires today, Mauricio himself is a son provided by an almighty father; This is his drama and his luck, nobody knows how he, the fatality that means to overcome this predator, the proof is that he has enough money to live in peace without accounting for his laziness to anyone; however paradoxically, his alleged rebellion forces him to fight his father and for that very reason, remain as a slave to the hegemonic power, as any other.
This is the drama of all the figures heads of tyrannies, monarchies, and absolute powers, which, as Plato indicates, are failed attempts to reunite humanity which always end in dispersion and annihilation.
Unfortunately, most of the cultures that made up Argentina were victims of the cultural scourge of old world paternalism. And as such, it manifested itself in our history in its worst forms, first in colonialism and then in dictatorships.
But no matter how fantastic the project for a country, democratic, national and popular, that the Kirchner-Fernández statesmen have built, it cannot be erased from the conduct of a people, which was always whipped by the head, father or authority of family, fear of independence from their domination.
The enthusiasm, proven popularist (if we count the votes and the conquered communes) that Macrismo emphasizes, as well as the pleasant children's party of colored balloons, shows that even in an important sector of the population, fear of parental disobedience prevails and to the rite of family authorities. This is a trait common to all social classes, throughout the world and in all ages still. This allowed companies to be formed that were together despite the disparity, injustice and the most hideous abuse that could be reached. The authoritarian father and the fear that he professes is the common factor that unites all the parts of his subject courts. Among the parents, in turn, there is a convention for the transfer of authority that is organized separating the differences between the bosses by degrees of power and territorial categories, at the same time that they always support each other militarily if the authority of one is questioned by their subjects. .

The difference between the rebel son and the coup son

Both seek independence from the father, only that the coup plotters want the crown for themselves. Without questioning anything, they seek to replace the father ahead of time in the same regime that subjected them. They personalize the conflict on the basis of the "bad king - good king", but always king, hence so much joy, celebration and childish freedoms, that many times it does not go beyond the fun of trying on the suit, the armchair and the crown of the father in front of the mirror, celebrated by friends ... balloons included.
The rebellious son does not have parties to celebrate, but rather an arduous and hard fight until the victory of a world without the need for guiding paternalisms. Victory, as Plato's parable says, is the transmutation of authority into the law of friendship, where everyone has a part of the
Responsibility in common loyalty to the respublica. Loyalty is valued as an indispensable treasure for the union of all with all. In this framework, discussion among all, politics, is essential.
The fate of the Cities founded by men before the distribution of Hermes of Justice and Shame, remain to this day the threat that fits all the cities of the world.

The paternalism whose whip today is the economy, imposes its authority leading to politics to reduce business and governs in the power that competes against the Republic. This warrior of fortune, underestimates the intellectual effort that collective debate imposes on all citizens, and tries to discredit the difficulty of dealing with the diversity of all the categories of the city that individuals have to put into action to safeguard politics. .
Paternalism aspires to the almost infallible corruption of the children, heirs to the easy fortune of the father who crowns them. That fortune that he undeservedly transfers to them in the form of command, is the highest privilege that sustains injustice and impudence, while for all the others, it will be nothing other than obedience. As Macri well knows, it is the father himself who constructs injustice as a strategy of power and domination.
Simplify the destiny of the citizen to a concept of user, forcing him to live organized as a consumer, passing the bill for a monopoly imposed luxury and comfort, where in the hours that they are not users, a few can access the privilege of working as comfort employees , is clearly foolish as a human project. As well as thinking that if citizens behave well, they will be justly rewarded for their "meritorious tasks", where some can also even access the category of kings or gods. All, without exception, respond to the humiliation of the submitter.
Unfortunately, it is vain to warn a population denigrated by fear that all this fallacy of the bulubú witch can be cured with the vacú, with the vaccine of politics. That the catastrophic imaginary of its denigrator is a veiled threat against disobedience, and that promises, with scant observations, are a clever business of transfer of power. In return, they only get the moral violence of having to publicly justify the hope of luxury and easy life for those who respect the law of the crown and the fear of the father. What is worse, is that fear is not forgotten just like that, to forget it requires a lot of thought work, that intellectual, who was taught so much to denigrate. The first observation is that those trinkets that simulate luxury are not worth the happiness that is experienced with dignity and brotherhood. Meanwhile they will continue to go through history, repeating Brutus' coup plot, which meant, as Plato predicted centuries before, the total digression of the Father's Empire and the end of inheritance. Anyway, at the time of destination, it always comes.
Friendship in economic and political terms means a uniform and respectful growth of citizenship, justice is simply the pillar of peace and luxury is: the collective honor of the Polis.