Los estrategas y gestores del populismo moderno (siglos XVI-XVIII)
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2017
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De Almeida Santos J., Cavadas Gormaz M. J. y Timoteo Alvarez J. (2017). Los estrategas y gestores del populismo moderno (SIGLOS XVI-XVIII). Historia y Comunicación Social, 22(1), 13-29. https://doi.org/10.5209/HICS.55897
Abstract
En el Renacimiento y para siglos posteriores, gigantes del pensamiento diseñaron una sociedad nueva en torno a la utopía y estructuraron el poder en una simbiosis entre aristocracia y plebe. Convirtieron a la mayoría (el pueblo) en cortesanos, inmaterializando con ello la tiranía. Una de las claves es la implantación de una mentalidad que hoy llamamos “populista”, de aceptación gozosa de la tiranía a lo largo de la Era Moderna. En este artículo analizamos el proceso, los instrumentos y el método del cambio. Y encontramos dos grupos de responsables: uno que podemos definir como “estrategas”, capaces de sustituir la Inquisición por la sutileza de la seducción. El segundo, “gestores”, encargados de concebir manuales para generalizar una mentalidad de “príncipes” entre la gleba, los “siervos” y la plebe. Un impresionante grupo de “marketers” políticos, similares a los actuales “spin doctors”.
In the Renaissance and for later centuries, thought giants designed a new society around utopia and structured power in a symbiosis between aristocracy and plebs. They turned the majority (the people) into courtiers, thereby immaterialising tyranny. One of the keys is the implantation of a mentality called today as “populism”, of joyful acceptance of tyranny throughout the Modern Era. In this article we analyze the process, instruments and method of changing. And we find two groups of leaders: one we can define as “strategists”, capable of replacing the Inquisition with the subtlety of seduction. The second, “managers”, in charge of conceiving manuals to generalize a mentality of “princes” between the gleba, the “servants” and the plebs. An impressive group of political marketers, similar to the current “spin doctors”.
In the Renaissance and for later centuries, thought giants designed a new society around utopia and structured power in a symbiosis between aristocracy and plebs. They turned the majority (the people) into courtiers, thereby immaterialising tyranny. One of the keys is the implantation of a mentality called today as “populism”, of joyful acceptance of tyranny throughout the Modern Era. In this article we analyze the process, instruments and method of changing. And we find two groups of leaders: one we can define as “strategists”, capable of replacing the Inquisition with the subtlety of seduction. The second, “managers”, in charge of conceiving manuals to generalize a mentality of “princes” between the gleba, the “servants” and the plebs. An impressive group of political marketers, similar to the current “spin doctors”.