The magistocratic cry needs to be understood for what it does not say.
she sounded serene: “Soon we will be on the list of those who work under slavery.” And he threatened: “The population will feel it when they seek justice and there is none.” His recent salary is around R$100,000.
The judge from Paraná seemed sincere: “My remuneration will be less than that of a guy who sells ice cream.” And he threatened: “I’m going to leave, I’m going to set up a stand and defend myself. When you’re arrested, I’m not going to be here to get anyone out. What I want is to stay at home and fuck you.” Your recent pay slip is around R$100,000.
A prosecutor from Minas Gerais, in 2019, revealed his “misery”: “Unfortunately, I don’t have humble origins. I’m not used to so many limitations. I want to know if we’re going to stay in this misery.” The prosecutor who wanted to be humble threatened: “What are we going to do? Or are we going to keep quiet?”
It’s difficult to resist the joke, disguise the astonishment and understand the institutional silence in the face of the breach of decorum. But irony and indignation alone lose sight of the psychic symptom. There is something more serious and profound than degenerate impudence.
We don’t need psychoanalysts to venture some hypotheses. The perversion, the obscenity of the words, the anguish over the loss of privileges, the delusion of grandeur, the R$100,000 as an existential minimum, below which she says she will no longer pay the doctor. It seems like material desire, but not only that.
The magistocrat doesn’t just want money, he wants sincere love for his status. Being called privileged is pleasant, as it sounds like recognition of superiority. When equated with ordinary citizens, he explodes. Behind the forensic liturgy, there is an ordinary bureaucrat, with a banal and childish mentality.
There seems to be a psychic helplessness: their personal value is glued to privilege, and their subjectivity does not support equality. And an ethical helplessness: he feels above the law. There is chemical dependence on this distinction.
a double sense of heroism: intellectual, for having passed a public exam, this Olympics of memorization; and morale, due to having to deal with the disparities of Brazilian justice and finding a poor person in the courtroom. From this heroism comes his sense of infinite merit (the “sense of entitlement”, in the most eloquent expression in English).
It functions as a rite of consecration and the purchase of indulgences. Hence we are in permanent debt for this sacrifice they make for us. In this delusion of merit, the law becomes small. Your unparalleled effort justifies your acquired right.
For the magistrocrat, equality is not a republican value, but an offense to his distinction. Legality, on the other hand, is an offense to its sovereignty. A mixture of narcissism and omnipotence: “I’m not like them. I don’t accept limits.”
It limited it to 35% of the constitutional ceiling (the “surceiling”). The reaction of corporate associations was not legal, but indignation: “deep disagreement”, “devaluation and destruction of careers”.
They call republican equality a “humiliation.” Not equal pay, as they are already in Just equality before the law. Against it, they invest in self-legality, the power to create their own norms. An unlimited authorization for themselves.
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