Social Depletion: Perpetuating discrimination

Abstract

The dominant political and socio-economic model imposes its selective logics of integration, discrimination and social segregation.

In post-state societies, consumption displaces and breaks the binding threads. The whole society is fragmented and diluted. It exposes the supremacy of the individualized self over the diminished collective self. Meanwhile, the mercantile standards of “normality”, “desirable”, “good”, end up imposing themselves on the imaginary of the majority as a must. In this way, living within social structures and their corresponding subjectivities that, although they claim greater openness and tolerance towards difference, they also demand the distancing and protection of all those forms of behavior and social organization that are not theirs, as intimidating. Dual and contradictory discourse that only manages to be harmonized in consumerist practice, at which time individuals acquire the artificial category of equality.