Tyranny without Tyrants, by David Trueba




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After his previous novel Farmland, David Trueba takes a break when it comes to fiction to present us with a book with sociological essay aspirations and inspirations.

It is about thinking a little about the transcendental, about the nuances of the fit between the anthropological and the social. And it is also about sharpening and criticizing and reflective opposition about our drift as a civilization.

Reading this book highlights the contradictory need for individualism. Because it is natural to vindicate oneself as a person with the circumstances of each one. But individualism is a double-edged sword at the service of various interests that, ultimately, lead us to alienation ...

If we stick to the conceptual, it could be said that we are already immersed in the dream society. Rights of all kinds for any citizen, life expectancy, spaces to recognize all the singularities, democracy ...

Thus, by boat soon, the idea is weighed down by that other world in which no previous goodness exists. And sadly we understand that this is a necessary counterweight. To the point of assuming catastrophic stories of that other world spilled by the news naturally ..., as long as they do not splash the West, where those of us who do have rights and freedoms live.

But beyond that balance, that gear between those here and there, the contradiction continues to spread between our ranks, the inhabitants of the privileged world. Because the great thinking minds have known how to give the best treatment to that historically earned individualism as freedom and rights. Separated we are less strong, we are really vulnerable, we end up becoming our own enslavers.

Those who drive large political, power and economic interests ultimately know how to get the most out of us one by one.

The result is that we end up believing that we are unique, free, capable of facing our destiny. But after the apparent society won in favor of equality, we end up being processed and screened elements. The information makes us part of the statistics towards consumption. New forms of business in which each of us add up to form a curve, a trend on a sinister graph.

Yes. It is true that our advanced societies can offer better living, health and emotional conditions. And yet you will have observed that in the end all progress ends up being oriented to where the money is. Consumer happiness, consumer health, consumer love?

In view of our drift, it seems as if there is only one last redoubt left, a space of conquest of our soul that the robots of the network cannot finish reaching. And to continue defending that space and retaking new reconquests towards a more effective equality, there would be no choice but to unite again, each with its own particular space but composing a network with which to confront that other tangled network of the most evil interests.

David Trueba comes to expand on many of these aspects with a realistic perspective, sometimes fatalistic, but always confident of substantial change.

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