The in-depth study of history, that which goes beyond the memorisation of dates of battles and symbolic milestones that mark the beginning and the end of junctures, is fundamental to understanding the present.
Of course, such a statement is almost a truism; there is hardly anyone willing to deny that social behaviour is rather invariable over time and that the dynamics of a past event are basically the same, traced in the events of the present, changing only the proper names that illustrate the narrative. Marc Bloch said, giving a definition for posterity, that history is the action of men in time.
What Bloch did not and could not say, since the time had not yet come to say it, is that this action in time is a sort of "loop" where the action itself is basically always the same. Since there is no variation in social behaviour because the nature of those who make history, who are men, does not vary either, what we see in the historical analysis and in its subsequent contrast with the present is that we live in an eternal groundhog day, in the moulds of that film work. [...] In one way or another, the future is being built, and so are the schemes for ordering the world.
The difference always lies in the greater or lesser level of freedom of atomised individuals with respect to power, or in the ways in which they organise themselves to counteract the desire for control that always exists among the bosses. HIV, SARS, MERS, H1N1 or "Influenza A", the short-term historical perspective tells us that corporations were already rehearsing the imposition of a new biopower and a new biopolitics a few decades ago, it is not difficult to see that all these diseases have been antecedents of the current coronavirus as a social modifier.
There is really not much that can be done, the discourse of social engineering is too powerful, the investments in dance are enormous and so there can be no failure. What can be done in this respect is to understand the process historically in order to go through it in such a way that the process itself does not become a martyrdom for the contemporary. Many are having a very bad time nowadays without being sick of anything, simply because of the anguish of a future they do not see.
This is the perversion of power, against which one can only step on the ball, think and argue. And fundamentally, turn off the television, the radio, the social networks of the frenzied, whose aim is to spread fear and do harm. Man is much more spirituality than matter, the quality of the latter depends on the level of the former, never the other way around. To take care of the integrity of one's conscience by not believing in things one does not understand in order not to suffer, as Stevie Wonder used to say, is the only possible path.
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