🕳️ Released Phantom Node 30: António Salazar. Perfect Submission
- Foundation date
29 July 2025
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 30: António Salazar. Perfect Submission
He promised harmony — but left a frozen society where obedience was the only virtue.
Salazar created the Estado Novo — an autocratic system where religion, discipline, and silence became tools of control. He spoke in God's name but never heard the people.
Node Type:
Authoritarian theocratic state
Condition:
Frozen stability
Mechanism of Hold:
Corporatism + religious ideology + secret police (PIDE) + isolationism
Image:
Phantom-Salazar stands atop a pulpit, resembling a church sermon platform. He speaks from above. Below him, the people are motionless. Behind — a "PIDE" sign, a colonial map, and the Latin phrase Fiat voluntas tua.
Instead of the Phantom:
A deeply ingrained habit of obedience. Fear of disturbing the imposed "order."
Core of the Node
What held it together?
Total control over professions via "corporations"
Glorification of the rural as the "true Portugal"
Censorship, informants, arrests without trial
A forced cult of “divine order” and national submission
How did it become a phantom?
After the regime fell, no one admitted complicity
Generations raised to avoid initiative
Freedom arrived hand in hand with disorientation
Why does the phantom persist?
Official restraint still hinders open discourse
Older generations recall the "golden era" as peaceful
The phantom of a “perfect Catholic order” survives in cultural memory
Current phantom state:
Dormant yet present in the collective subconscious. Reappears whenever there is a temptation to exchange liberty for silence.
After the regime:
Colonial wars dragged Portugal into further isolation
The Carnation Revolution broke the illusion — and opened a wound
Democracy had to grow from centuries of suppression
Collective Reaction
Obedience is not always a virtue.
We learned not to speak —
now we must learn to live in dialogue.
Core Principle
Silence wrapped in faith
is a convenient form of power.
True order exists
only where doubt is allowed.
Alt-text:
Graphite-style sepia drawing of António Salazar standing on a pulpit, resembling a church speaker’s platform. Behind him is a colonial map and a Latin inscription "Fiat voluntas tua". To his left, a sign reads "PIDE". Below him stands a still, voiceless crowd with solemn expressions. His face appears stern and distant.
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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk
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29.07.2025
