Athenea Digital (Nov 2010)

Marcianos, melanesios, mormones y murcianos. Apuntes de antropohistoria galáctica Martians, Melanesians, Mormons and 'Murcianos'. Notes on Anthropogalactic History

  • Antonio Javier Izquierdo Martín

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 19
pp. 111 – 143

Abstract

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<p>Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), higher priest of all things apocalyptic and titanic that remain in our present time, and his Mediterranean nemesis, the Spanish cinematographer Luis Garc&iacute;a Berlanga (Valencia, 1921), ultimate practitioner of the lost baroque-Spanish art of the courtesan jester, are gathered together in this paper for the good cause of revisiting the most absurd and funny of all anthropological research topics: <em>cargo cults</em>. These are Millenium movements whose believers invest enormous amounts of ritual work to invocate of embodied ancestral Gods. They ask their gods to land their cargo spaceships loaded with high-tech <em>mana </em>at their bamboo airports. The craziest avatar of this spiritual saga, so-called UFO religions have begun the theoretical exploration and practical exploitation of the fundamental cargoist -i.e. economic-analogy between ordinary visits (of conquerors, missioners, ethnographers or tourists) to anonymous places and extraordinary visits (of Gods or extraterrestrials) to spiritual centers. The fast global-cinematic diffusion of the modern myth of the flying saucer reveals a close anthropo-historical connection between the rise of this specifically post-industrial variety of cargo cult and the tourists' validation of the megalomaniac techno-economic dreams of aboriginal tribes living in the Stone Age. We conclude sketching an analytical caricature of one of the most stupid cargonomical &lsquo;pilot' in galactic anthropohistory: the so-called &lsquo;Spanish economic miracle'.</p> El sumo sacerdote de todo lo que de tit&aacute;nico y apocal&iacute;ptico pervive a&uacute;n en el mundo contempor&aacute;neo, el psiquiatra suizo Carlos Gustavo Jung (1875-1961), y su n&eacute;mesis castizoide, el cineasta espa&ntilde;ol Lu&iacute;s Garc&iacute;a Berlanga (Valencia, 1921), restaurador para Madrid y provincias del decadente esp&iacute;ritu barroco de los cl&aacute;sicos de la burla cortesana, se juntan aqu&iacute; por vez primera para contribuir a una buena causa. Se trata de revisitar el objeto de investigaci&oacute;n antropol&oacute;gica tenido por m&aacute;s absurdo y divertido de todos: un grupo de credos milenaristas conocidas como "sectas cargo" cuyos fieles invierten esfuerzos supremos en la adoraci&oacute;n ritual de dioses corp&oacute;reos ancestrales para que hagan aterrizar en sus aeropuertos de bamb&uacute; naves mercantes de ciencia-ficci&oacute;n repletas de <em>man&aacute;</em> tecnol&oacute;gico. En el m&aacute;s esperp&eacute;ntico avatar de esta saga espiritual, las denominadas &lsquo;religiones ovni' se han lanzado a explorar te&oacute;ricamente y explotar de manera pr&aacute;ctica la analog&iacute;a cargo&iacute;sta -esto es, econ&oacute;mica- fundamental entre <em>visitas ordinarias</em> (de conquistadores, misioneros, etn&oacute;grafos o turistas) a lugares an&oacute;nimos y <em>visitas extraordinarias </em>(de dioses o alien&iacute;genas) a centros espirituales. La r&aacute;pida difusi&oacute;n cinem&aacute;tico-planetaria del mito moderno de los platillos volantes revela una &iacute;ntima conexi&oacute;n antropohist&oacute;rica entre el surgimiento de esta variedad espec&iacute;ficamente post industrial de <em>cargo cult</em> y la validaci&oacute;n tur&iacute;stica de los delirios de grandeza tecnoecon&oacute;mica de tribus abor&iacute;genes ancladas en la edad de piedra. Concluimos esbozando la caricatura anal&iacute;tica de uno de los (e)piso(dio)s piloto m&aacute;s delirantes de la antropohistoria gal&aacute;ctica de las religiones de la carga: el &lsquo;milagro econ&oacute;mico espa&ntilde;ol'.<p>&nbsp;</p>

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