Knowledge and Delirium: Defense of Individualism Against Totalitarian Fashions.

Abstract

The use of knowledge in society is studied under two antagonistic social models: liberalism and totalitarianism. The knowledge variable is conceptually sustained in both systems, to observe its mutations under their respective social conditions, thus provoking two images of knowledge: one product of the exercise of the social limits of an evolutionary individualism and another resulting from the collapse of these same limits. Therefore, the characteristics of the change from knowledge to an authentic delusion are analyzed. The article seeks to offer an exposition of subtle aspects, not frequently treated, that facilitate systematic deception and the implantation of totalitarian systems. In the epilogue, the ethical aspects implicit in the choice between knowledge and delirium, and their respective social systems, are explicitly stated.