Hooke's Law and Democracies weak-A disturbing analogy
Introduction
The objective of this test is to determine the impact of tyranny or
dictatorship, populist governments and other perverse forms of government on
the identity, morality, will, aspirations of a people, i.e. its ethos. A
phenomenon of physics, elasticity, it is useful to explain this situation.
Materials, such as metals, in the course of life are subjected to stresses or
loads acting on them causing deformations or variations in the dimensions. A
metal bar can be stretched, compressed, twisted, cut, and in any case, the
ability to withstand external forces and these effects depends on the material
and its properties.
When stress, strain are small loads Hooke's Law applies, which states that the
deformations of bodies subjected to these loads are linearly proportional. In figure 1, corresponding to materials
like copper or soft iron, the point a indicates the limit to which the
linear proportionality is met. If stress or load extends to the point b, you
reach the limit of elasticity. This indicates that when finished the exercise,
the body recovers its shape and / or initial dimensions; the behavior is elastic.
Also, reversible deformation forces are conservative.
When switching point b by gradually increasing the load,
the body is deformed but when it stops or interrupts the effort as not fully
recover the original shape or size, plastic deformation is permanent,
irreversible; in the red line that shows
shape recovery, a residual deformation is observed. While it is not broken or
fragmented body, is said to be ductile, when the body breaks down to more than
the load corresponding to point b, is a fragile body. In the limit (point d) called
breakpoint, anybody will break.
An important detail that engineers must consider is that even when the material
is elastic, when the stress is applied many times, material fatigue occurs, loses its elasticity, deformation
or rupture occur less effort.
Adaptation of Hooke's law society
Let's do an
exercise in imagination to associate the stress or strain on a material with
the harmful political pressure on society. This harmful policy lies with the
existence of an oppressive government, violator of rights and freedoms,
manipulative (dictatorship, tyranny, populist government). The deformation of
the material corresponds to the deformation of ethos, which represents the
soul, consciousness, the aspirations of a people.
A greater degree of political pressure corresponds to a harmful hardening of
tyranny, a systematic and cruel violation of human rights and freedoms, greater
deformation corresponds to a debasement of the country, to a gradual loss of
social consciousness, pride, of the virtues, social values, a growing
renunciation of the struggle for greatness.
The elasticity concept we can associate to the
resilience concept, applicable to all entities live like a palm tree that resists storms or
thinking being with will, as a person or a company. It is the resilience of
critical situations or problems of great social impact. When a person is
resilient despite experiencing intense personal tragedy, does not cease in
their effort to be a better person; pain or loss are real but not completely
nullify the will of improvement as a human being. A village, a society are resilient when it exceeds collective
tragedies, emerges from the ashes and moves towards its goals, despite the pain
and cost of such tragedies. Japan and Germany after the Second World are examples
of collective resilience.
In Figure 2 the analogy with Hooke's Law is
shown. At point b, limit of elasticity (or limit
resilience), a village under a dictatorship when it ends, he fully recovers and
keeps intact its national values, culture, national vocation, his worldview. If
one democratic society say that democracy
is strong. When the yield strength or resilience is exceeded, the recovery
is not complete, some deformation is as indelible mark, something the national
ethos has been affected. It is a weak
democracy.
How to explain this? In dictatorships such as Cuba or North Corea, those who
control the country, force the people become a group of spies, informers and
collaborators in exchange for patronage and favoritism. It is uncommon to
betray or denounce their own relatives if it is to get something that is now
scarce, limited and only available to those with the power and direct or
indirect access to them.
Before they came to power tyrants who control these countries, there was a
level of trust and solidarity in the population. Each struggled to prosper and
achieve individual and collective goals, but it was never intended to prevent
others succeed.
When ending the dictatorship or tyranny, as effect of successful opposition
groups or any miraculous event of external origin, it is not possible that all
citizens exhibit similar behavior to that which existed before the dictatorship
began. It remains as a crack in the social ethos, confidence is a utopia, the
overall solidarity is not possible; perhaps in the long run if they have passed
at least three or four generations after the end of the dictatorship. In Spain,
still remains a divisive the ominous shadow of the dictator Franco and have
spent nearly fifty years.
Figure 3 the position of some
countries is shown. The case of Iceland is useful to understand the idea of resilience. In 2008 there was a crisis in Western Europe
and the US economy, caused by the mistakes and greed of bankers, as well as
complicity and complacency of politicians. The solution of governments was to
bet on the bailout of banks leaving unprotected population, victim of the greed
and carelessness. However, in Iceland, the population decided to go against the
extended solution and overcome their situation without saving the banks or
permit or tolerate political impunity. Various acts concluded with the
imprisonment of some benching, politicians and most importantly, the economic
crisis was overcome without resorting to measure perverse from save banks and
plunge people. Xavier Moret, a Spanish writer in his book "Revolution
under the volcano" presents this singular fact, little known in the West because
"bad examples" like this (from
the point of view of politicians and corrupt bankers) should not be disclosed.
The Icelandic people maintained their dignity, values, goals, and to cease the
effort or evil force (the economic tyranny and collusion policy for cheating)
regained its essence. In the case of Peru, the populist activity rulers (presidents,
mayors and so far there) induces people to think better that effort is the
renunciation of dignity and monitoring or subservience of these rulers to reach
the media that allow them to live. That explains why despite a politician is
clearly dishonest and evidences are visible even to the blind, the people
reelects them. The motto is "Roba pero hace obra”, “Thiefs but does
work" indicating that there is a debasement, a knowing attitude with immoral
ruler. No rebellion, rejection, only the expectation of being part of the
privileged group at some point.
It is true that power is achieved through democratic elections, the people
voluntarily choose their rulers but the institutional fragility reveals a weak,
imperfect democracy, prone to further weakening; the social ethos is weak and
may weaken and debase even more.
The case of Argentina is similar; that of Venezuela is more critical. Despite
having absolutely restricted freedoms, people think it is better to undergo a
dictator who assures effortless minimum subsistence rather than trust someone
who promises improvements in exchange for a temporary collective effort or
sacrifice. The dictators of the country qualify squalid derisively as the
protesters but really what they have achieved is to be scrawny Venezuelan
ethos.
In engineering, the search for new materials, alloys and other improvement
processes can extend the point of elasticity or improve the capacity of
elasticity of the materials. On the social side, extensive education and
comprehensive review is the key to the resilience of society is greater Why
Venezuela's government systematically denies the possibility of an improvement
in education? No need to think hard to realize that it is better to have
ignorant people eating from hand educated than critical and people that calls
for transparency, honesty, actual work and the ability to be creators and
masters of their destiny.
When approaching or has reached the point of social rupture, the ethos of a
people is so deteriorated, so debased that the only collective sentiment is
instinctive referred to survival. Do not perceive anything on the horizon, even
in the short term, all that matters is arrive living the next day. This
reflects the tragedy of African and Arab peoples suffering the curse of the
diaspora and absolutely harmful governments. For them there is neither past nor
future, only an absolutely precarious present reduced similar to that of
vagrancy condition.
Why in Peru's situation does not improve education? The percentage of GDP
devoted this sector is growing, but even reach 10%, apparently hidden slogan is
to prevent a real improvement of education.
Figure 4 shows
the effect of raising the ceiling of resilience. The harder tyranny or
dictatorship of the more nefarious than the populist government, there will be
greater possibility of social recovery at the end of these governments. Moreover, it is also
true that a higher educational level is more difficult the emergence of these
governments.
References
Young, Hugh D.; Freedman, Roger A. (2009) Sears-Zemanski, University Physics,
vol. One
Addison-Wesley, Twelfth Edition; PEARSON EDUCATION, Mexico, 2009