One of the reasons that lead many people to stay out of politics is the confusion caused by the technical, scientific and technological interpretation, increasingly distant from the human condition, of everything that happens around them. If we pay attention, we notice that political leaders have stopped using the word murder when they talk about the death of one person at the hands of another in a violent way. The term murder, with all its religious and cultural charge, is replaced by neutral expressions, without moral tension, such as "he was killed by a knife", giving the tragedy the connotation of a regrettable event, where the gravity will be resolved in the courts
The same thing happens when the determining role that passions play in the exercise of politics is hidden and attempts are made to explain the maneuvers to preserve or gain power as a simple game of parliamentary arithmetic, which we have been able to verify these days in Spanish politics. It is passions such as power, freedom, revenge, justice, vanity or greed that show more precisely what moves some politicians to reach agreements or reject them.
By refusing to call things by their name, we have gone so far as to designate love as an emotional disorder, to distance ourselves and remove from our lexicon compassion, charity, faith, hope or the consolation It seems that all these terms that show the scope, both negative and positive, of human behavior must be displaced by technical interpretations to make them bearable in the form of statistics and data.
The unstoppable advance of artificial intelligence in people's lives is criticized by pointing out that it dehumanizes them, but at the same time tames and trains the lexicon to make it an idle pet that has lost all impetus to respond to the call of its nature. We must once again call things by their name to reveal that, on many occasions, the so-called political impotence is nothing more than laziness to act, that wars are the product of pride, that the fuel is hatred, and that social inequalities are largely the product of human greed.
