Clarissa's Blog

Why do very educated, relatively well-off people vote for low-intelligence, bumbling morons like Darializa Avila, Mamdani, or all the rest of them?

They don’t want to be people on whom changes are inflicted. They prefer to see themselves as people inflicting the changes. In the incoming high-tech favela, they want to associate themselves with the high-tech side and not the favela side. They believe that Darializa is their ticket out of victimhood and into control. “It’s not something that others did to me. It is what I did to others” is the positioning they seek. If it’s coming anyways, why not associate oneself with the forceful nature of the inevitable?

Of course, in the world that is being ushered in by Darializas and Co., there’s no place for the very people who are voting for her. They are three levels of subjectivation above the favela part of the new societal order and one level of subjectivation behind its high-tech part. They’re stuck in the middle between these two extremes, so they’re doomed to be tossed away as soon as the transformation they so hopefully enable is completed.