DICTATORSHIPS

Many times in my life, when I hear the word dictatorship referring to a political regime, I think how much kind of dictatorships there are and oppress our life.

Political dictatorship: It is the classical situation. An insecure, idiot, having complex, small dick, small minded, uneducated, betrayer of his country tries to apply his political opinion by guns, blood, terrorism, fear, disappearance of freedom. I can add many things about this kind of dictatorship, like any other person in the word (we have one in my country too). A dictatorial regime can give the name democracy to itself. But this doesn’t change anything. It is still dictatorship. This is what happens the last years in Europe and in America.

But what about the other kinds of this hateful regime? Dictatorships that determine our life and we don’t eve recognize or admit them like that?

Fashion dictatorship or Lifestyle dictatorship: I love fashion! It makes me feel young! I am not a fashion victim. Even one or two pieces every year in my wardrobe make me feel that I can still follow… the life. But I cannot stand the hysteria. A feast of persons that think the whole world turns around them. And they find a way to feel important.

I don’t speak about fashion people, people that earn their life from fashion. This is their work and I respect it. And is really and impressive work. I speak about insecure, new rich people judge people according to their style and the price of their clothes and the places that they go and the kind of food that they eat…

And yes, this kind of dictatorship is frequently combined with money. Fashion needs money.

I remember the last decade. If you didn’t eat sushi you were at least rustic or miserable. Two decades before this happened with the cream fresh and the rocket (this bitter dark green vegetable) with parmesan salad. And you paid them a loootttttttt.

If you cannot join the club (because you don’t have the money or simply because you don’t like it) then you are lost, you are the “errand boy”.

This is another kind of dictatorship that, believe me, can fuck up your life. It is a very dirty war, an unfair one. Like a low blow. And it is procession of lifestyle.

Money-power dictatorship: As I told before, lifestyle needs money. Life in general needs money. Sometimes I find in the books I read references to the cruelty of the lords and masters. A simple scene in Angelos Terzakis “Princess Isambo” (the story takes place in 1293 during the Francocracy in Greece). The lord gets inside the blacksmith’s place and for no reason takes a burning iron and put it on the face of the poor guy. No one could speak. He was the lord. In Idelfonso Falcones’ “La catedral del mar” which refers to a disgusting medieval law (or right), el derecho de pernada (Droit de segneur), where the lord had rights on anyone, even to do the most cruel things. Here, we are not talking about policy and political regime, but the rights of the workers didn’t exist. Something that happens today too. We live an new Middle Age, but because now we don’t die at 30, we are not exactly hungry, we buy things with credit cards, we think that we are free. But we are not. We work without rights, as much time “the job need us”, because we have to pay the loan of the house, the car, the children school and many other things that premise our salary. And we cannot react. We cannot say anything. Look Greece today and take a better look to the european countries that they don’t have an obvious problem. You will understand about what I talk.

Mentality dictatorship: This is what we call tradition, mentality, way of thinking of a nation. And here we can write millions of words. All the old fashioned ideas, the belief of other centuries drive our life until today. I don’t gossip my neighbors, neither my mother did it, so many years before against our small city mentality. In some places they call it interesting, religion belief, social obligation to involve in other people’s life. Fathers and mothers decide for their children life even in 2011. And people obey and they call it “respect to parents”. The fact that other people decide or their life on their own doesn’t mean that they don’t respect their parents, but just have other idea about their own life. Parents are still deciding for their children studies. This is funny! (at least).

Equally disgusting is the modern mentality, that shows you the way that you have to live and the “empty”, “uninteresting” model that urge.

And people are trapped between their own will and the old mentality. And unfortunately lust little people in every generation can go against this nonsense. That’s why things, mentalities and traditions change so low in this life.

I think all this kind of dictatorship equally dangerous and oppressive with the political ones, because they have their own victims too. And cause serious problems to normal people.