Just as we hear Yuval Noah Harari saying that the notion of consciousness can be understood as “capacity to suffer”, feelings will play here, no doubt, a crucial role in our ability to define our set of contemporary truths. If “facts are subordinate to our political point of view”, obviously, then, the factual territory of reality is plagued and overwhelmed by a cacophony of desires and fictional constructs that plunge us fully into the realm of the so-called “post-truth world”. This supposedly new scenario, this “after-something-happen nowness”, is paradoxical for it means that it has trespassed a liminal space that was, so far, until now, understood and well-defined: facts are facts and work so to settle arguments.

Wishes, in this political environment, are mostly egotistical, they respond solely to the burdens that modernity instills in individuals and their subjective standings. Modernity has degraded the value of the commons to such an extent that the cohesive aims of the past has given way to the self-aggrandizing focus of individual social presence, preservation of status and advancing the social position of the individual within the group. What I call “battles of opinion” are a good example of what lies at the core of those politics. This is no more an ethical struggle that aims for the common good of humanity or the planet. Capital is not just accrescence and gains, it is also its staunch defense, the ideological and physical defense of the few against the many. And so, as Lee McIntyre reminds us, we enter that landscape of “ideological supremacy” that so much stains the political sphere of decisions today.