EL PENSADOR:AH.., LAS COALICIONES..

They are like a diverse family avenged by convenience, in which precarious bridges of approach to consensus are built, while disagreements and selfishness are exhibited by sectoral interests almost always related to the wishes of each member to increase their power, their strength in the face not already to the benefit of society but to the eventual electoral weight to be achieved tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR:AH.., LAS COALICIONES..

EL PENSADOR: cuando la calle es una selva

The work stoppage and street demonstrations have refueled fuel in recent days. Everything indicates that they will continue. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: cuando la calle es una selva

EL PENSADOR: ¿RIDICULEZ O RIESGO SOCIAL?

In a pamphlet he published in 1925, entitled «What I Believe,» Bertrand Russell, in the chapter on righteous living, wrote: «When I say that the morality of conduct must be judged by its probable consequences, I mean that we wish see approved the conduct that is likely to achieve the social ends we want, and disapproved the opposite conduct. Currently this is not done; there are certain traditional norms according to which approval and disapproval are distributed regardless of the consequences Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿RIDICULEZ O RIESGO SOCIAL?

EL PENSADOR: NO HAY ATAJOS

In the context of what, more than once, I have called the growing degradation that shakes our society, I do not dismiss but I pay relative attention to the statistics on the decrease in crimes: homicides, domestic violence or against minorities, robberies, drug trafficking and so many more. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: NO HAY ATAJOS

EL PENSADOR: OPORTUNIDAD EN EL HORIZONTE

I have learned, from journalistic reports whose responsibility I acknowledge, that the Ministry of the Interior, starting from its fight against the intricate network of micro-drug trafficking in Montevideo, has begun to cover up access to abandoned buildings or houses, to prevent them from being occupied -as it is happening – not only by homeless people but mainly by criminals who establish drug outlets there. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: OPORTUNIDAD EN EL HORIZONTE

EDITORIAL: EL PENSADOR «UN BAILE NO QUERIDO»

EDITORIAL: THE THINKER: AN UNWANTED DANCE Por Antonio Pippo Dígase de una vez, claramente y sin horadar la honestidad intelectual: el  impulso dado a la obtención de firmas para un referéndum contra la Ley de Urgente Consideración ha colocado –a … Continúa leyendo EDITORIAL: EL PENSADOR «UN BAILE NO QUERIDO»