Marquis de Sade the shadows of allegiances

Dołączył: 07 Mar 2024 Posty: 1

I recently had lunch with the brothers Nacho and Fernando G. Velilla, director and producer respectively of some of the highest-grossing comedies in Spanish cinema, such as "Que se mueran los feos" or "Perdiendo el Norte." Nacho started at a very young age directing the series “Aida” and “Siete vidaes”, and he plans to release his new film “Villaviciosa de al lado” at the end of the year. The script, from the purest Berlanguian tradition, is based on a real event that occurred in Spain two years ago when he won the lottery in a town in the interior of our country. Although it is logical that happiness would overwhelm all the locals, there is a big shadow that hangs over the winners: the jackpot awarded by the raffle has been sold at the town's hostess club. They can easily infer the dilemma that arises in that deep Spain: declare yourself a millionaire by dint of a whore, or maintain your immaculate morals without blemish, by dint of remaining in poverty. And as we laughed, exchanging our experiences at that pleasant meal, I began to think about prostitution and illegality, and from there I jumped to the Marquis de Sade who, at that time, had already been exchanging my understanding for this blog.

Illegalisms and alegalisms are areas of activity that, prohibited or not, present a range of tolerance on the part of the public power, either because they are risky activities Cell Phone Number List prevention and repression of the phenomenon advocates permissibility, in order to achieve social balance. Dealing with dissidence cannot be based on systematic repression, even if a certain natural coexistence is maintained that public agents administer with the necessary restraint and prudence. Illegal sales on the street, certain consumer behaviors in public places, uncontrolled immigration or prostitution, are examples, each with its own particularities, in which the laws do not exist or are "asleep", for the sake of an interest. metalegal. With all this, this entry does not defend, as inappropriate, the gradual disuse of the laws or their application upon demand, but it simply notes how automatic and persistent repression can become a counterproductive tool. Even the shadows of tolerance have been able to serve, and there are multiple examples in the history of all countries, for certain powers of the State to trample on people's weaknesses, to submerge certain individuals in the sewers of human weakness, of so that they can obtain further advantages.

This has been the caso of prostitution, one of those areas where the possible existing pathologies between power and law are noticed with greater intensity, and where power, whose force of expansion is notorious, can centrifuge the law in the search for a superior good or interest , sometimes difficult to identify. This is where it is convenient to bring up the Marquis de Sade, who frequented sexual freedom as a pleasure and joyfully theorized about it, and who manifested himself with libertine boasting as a cartographer of eroticism but also as one of the greatest icons of the Enlightenment. We started with the next work by Nacho G. Velilla, and since we are in the comedy, I want to remember a joke used in recent years about the need to put order in an orgy. Without going into more details, I do want to warn that there is nothing new in this joke, as Sade himself already pointed out in "Philosophy of the Toilet": "Let us please put a little order in this orgy; "There must be order even in the heart of delirium and infamy." Well, in addition to order, Sade was a deep connoisseur of the perfidious relationship that binds power and sex, since he himself was a victim of the network that power could lay in the forks that extend through the long, dark corridors of the world. underworld of lust.

Wysłany: Czw Mar 07, 2024 09:34