The Ontology of the Lie: State-Building in the Discourse of Political Schizophrenia

Upon the ruins of public discourse, where words have been quoted to death through banal use, there now rises the stage of a pathological spectacle that we ordinarily call an “electoral campaign.” What we are witnessing among the caste of parliamentary candidates is not merely political rhetoric or a communication strategy, but a genuine schizophrenia of concepts, an acute condition in which signifiers have become completely severed from their signifieds, creating a semantic void filled only by the will to power of the weak. This pathology of language causes the most sublime terms of ethics and politics to be transformed into devalued currency, which today’s politician spews forth without any ontological weight, living within a linguistic hallucination in which he believes that invoking the name of a virtue automatically grants him possession of it. The more loudly the candidate cries out for “Justice” or “Freedom,” the more he serves as evidence of what Nietzsche described as the concealment of instinctive decay beneath the mask of morality; a theatre in which concepts do not serve to illuminate the world, but to conceal the insatiable hunger of mediocrity seeking to become authority.

Within this schizophrenic vortex, the notions of Equality and Justice have been transformed into knives used to castrate every individual brilliance in the name of the morality of the herd. For the aspirants to the legislature, Equality is not an aspiration toward elevation, but an instrument of institutionalized ressentiment, a dark desire to equalize not opportunities, but failures, transforming the State into a gigantic sanatorium where no one is permitted to rise above the average, because greatness wounds the eyes of the voting crowd. This form of “justice” is nothing other than revenge disguised as a universal principle. In parallel, the notion of Freedom is presented as a “permission” granted by the people to these actors to exercise their arbitrariness over the fragile structures of existence, while Responsibility, that concept which ought to have been the gravity of every action, dissolves into a bureaucratic fog. The future parliamentarian “uses” responsibility as a kind of rhetorical decoration, knowing full well that once the lights of the electoral stage are extinguished, it will be buried beneath the weight of clan interests and the biological need for political survival.

This absurdity reaches its climax with the proclamation of “state-building,” a process which, in their hands, resembles the construction of paper monuments upon the laws of their own weak will. Our false architects do not seek to create a polis in which the higher and creative human being may flourish, but rather to construct an efficient enclosure in which the sheep can be milked without resistance. This schizophrenic state-building is, in fact, a genuine necropolitics: the administration of the death of the spirit through empty promises and laws that do not protect life,