“The human in me is unwell" with Dr. Matthias Burchardt
HOMO HYGIENICUS as a clinical syndrome
This episode with Dr. Matthias Burchardt is about the human condition and on how the Corona measures affect it.
Hibernation of humanity?
I. Homo Hygienicus - as a prototypical cultural figure of the corona crisis.
- What does the crisis turn man into?
- Extinction of essential elements of humanity
- Formation of the so-called homo hygienicus: Shocking images, social distancing, peer pressure, digitalization
II. Diagnosis: Multiple organ failure of all democratic instances
- Corona crisis as an expression of cultural erosion: Parties, media, science, education, unions, churches
- Social division, "populism," "post-fact," genderism, ecologism, digitalism
III. Anamnesis: Corona as a symptom of a long history of disease
Actor level:
Lobby groups, NGOs, power elites
Strategy level:
Shock strategy, propaganda theory
Discourse level:
- Neoliberalism: Means of domination
- Postmodern philosophy: scorched earth
- Destruction of man
- Destruction of reason
- Destruction of Freedom
- Destruction of language
- Destruction of understanding
- Destruction of dialectics
IV. Conclusion: Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism as uprooting, atomization and destruction of a common world
V. Outlook: What to do?
1. Honest, hard-hitting analysis of the intellectual situation
2. Analysis of the power constellations
3. Return to: Values, reality principle, human community
4. Dreaming of the spring of humanity during hibernation!
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