Case study #27 The Count, the Clitoris, and the Constitution in an Imaginary Country

Chilean Filmmaker, Partricio Guzman (Battle for Chile fame) released his latest film at Cannes 2022 - My imaginary Country. Interviewing only women and featuring Lastesis - A Rapist in Your Path Fame - he sets about setting up the winners and losers of the latest battle fought by a people with arms, rocks, molotovs, immolation, arson, ambush and hijacking democracy. Chilean Filmmaker, Pablo Larraín, then announced his next Netflix called the Count. In this so-called black comedy, General then President then Senator, and Erimitus Head of the Armed Forces for Life, Augusto Pinochet did not die in 2005 but became a vampire and lived for 250 years.

Yesterday, in front of Bellas Artes Museum, Santiago de Chile, a collective of feminist artists inflated a giant clitoris protesting the damage that the denial of pleasure has caused women for over 250 years. This temporary intervention replicates the G Spot public artwork of the permanent sculpture by Mariairis Flores, to be installed to the west of the museum in Parque Los Reyes (Kings Park) without irony. Yesterday, in front of Bellas Artes Museum, a passerby deflated the temporary version of female pleasure. This act was called violent, a clitorectomy of public art.

Today, in Plaza Baquedano, a crowd will assemble to celebrate LGTBQI+. They will gather around the emptied plinth of the Monument to General Baquedano and the exhumed tomb of the Unknown Soldier, both removed by the National Council of Monuments and the Armed Forces in 2021 to protect them from the unprecedented and unrelenting violence and destruction since 18 October 2019.

At 4:00am yesterday morning, in Parque Forestal, between Bellas Artes Museum and Plaza Baquedano, a young man was stabbed by three assailants and died. The violence and destruction legitimized as a protest since 18 October 2019 is now immaterial urban culture for pleasure or pain in public space.

“Lamentably,” he says, “almost everyone in the world today is a Marxist—even if they don’t know it themselves. They continue to have Marxist ideas.” 1998 New Yorker interview with Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet did die in 2005, under house arrest for his 90th Birthday, but he was yet to be charged with human rights abuses. His 1998 interviewer for the New Yorker described Pinochet as the strangest of political creatures. A Dictator that became the most influential political figure in the return to Democracy after losing the 1988 referendum with 46% of the vote to 54%. In 1998, he was revered by 25% of the population. When he died in 2005 protesters gathered in Plaza Baquedano spontaneously chanting "Bugger him well in Hell" according to Academic Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt.

Democracy did return to Chile in the elections and constitutional reform that followed in 1989.

In 2022, the cultural Left want to suck the corpse of the past body politic and flog the dead horse of "the current democracy as a continuation of the Dictatorship", as Mother's milk for the Children of the failed 2019 revolution and to feed their pet dog mascot Matapaco (Cop-Killer Street Dog).

In 2022, the upcoming referendum to approve or reject the new Constitution extorted and written with violence and hatred of the urban insurrection that began on 18 October 2019, is likely to be rejected by the majority of Chileans. The 4 September Referendum for the new Constitution is obligatory voting, the first time since voting became voluntary in 2012. The referendum will be the voice of the people and that voice, as in 1988, will say NO.