GLOBALIZATION - A DYSTOPIC RELIGION OF THE DESACRALIZED HUMANKIND

The failure of politics, as determined by the appearance and historical exhaustion of "intramundane religions" (E. Voegelin) engraved in the collective mentality during the past century, determined a new form of a utopia which implies economics as a substitute of traditional morals. Therefore, in order to elude totalitarianism as an illegitimate form of social cohabitation, Man has approached a gregarious form that has eradicated bot self-consciousness and the redemptive ways of a secularized spirituality. The modern construction of the society is based on a malformed civism that emanated from the neoliberalism of the capitalist democracy. An anti-utopia in appearance, the government based on economics climaxing in globalization has turned into an insidious, socially coercive ethical mechanism that installed a "fatum" in which social disparities were accepted as a meritocratic "gift", a conception that is inherent to capitalist axiology. In making use of the democracy feints, globalization has inculcated into the masses, the conscience of a liberty that is similar to that of Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor, which changed the "new man" or "Ubermensch" into the modern-day "Uberconsumer". The moral principle of loving one's neighbor changed to the ethics of tolerance, while the classical forms of utopia or Fourier's Phalanstere, sociocultural hypostases of a failed pattern of "Civitas Dei" (Augustine of Hippo), have their own avatars in an immense Panopticon in which people live the psychosis of being consumed themselves.