If one wanted to express with the immediate power of images the condition of the current West at the mercy of nihilism and, to put it à la Hegel, of the “fury of disappearing” (Furie des Verschwindens), there would be no more appropriate work to refer to than The Parable of the Blind (1568) by Pieter Bruegel.
Within the framework of a temporary regime which, characterized by the fanaticism of the economy, must be thought of as eternal, unamendable and, in short, as the End of History, there can be no room for the dimension of the future, for transformative praxis, for the ontological category of possibility and for the plane of historicity.
Consistent with the work of dystopian social engineering, directed by the cosmopolitan overlords, the institution of Erasmus (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students) fulfills, in this context, one of its specific ideological functions.
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