Dialogue of deafs (and serious). Chilean cultural politics before the military dictatorship

Abstract

The following article deals with the political and social environment during the 60's and 70's, revealing the protocols of a serious world, a mechanism of social truth and a weapon of political subversion in order to have access to power. The rhetoric of seriousness, as a contrast with "evanescent behaviours" coming from the happy and festive world, announces a political ethos of the militant and doctrinal discipline, useful in the pretensions of imposing a global nation project. This piece of work, will try to prove that the aesthetic of seriousness does not exclude a determined political group in particular, therefore its rhetoric goes through the Chilean political spectrum in the middle of the XX century.