If one is guided by the predominant journalistic discourse, to which inevitably we must add the very strong trend of politicization – which, in Creole language, that is «those from there, the opposition, against those from here, the government of the day» – A contradiction and the feeling that some mechanism of the State is failing in relation to a relevant issue is obvious. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ALGO ESTA FALLANDO
There is a famous William Blake epigram – «The curse strengthens, the blessing relaxes» – to which it is often appealed out of context and, in this way, can become an exhortation to irascibility and aggressiveness, personal and social. Obviously, such an interpretation, no matter how common it is, is a mistake. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA AGRESIVIDAD SOCIAL
In these times, when one works as a communicator – be it in some print media, on radio or television, or on social networks – warns that among many of the citizen readers, viewers or listeners, a certain attitude of discomfort towards politics has become habitual, and is growing, which, at times, rises to satiety, to the plain and straightforward rejection and even to the accusation that it contains all the corruption that can be imagined and all the damage that can be done to society. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DESCREDITO PELIGROSO
Every time society becomes embroiled in a bristling debate, aggressive about any of the main problems that affect her, it is only possible to select from sayings of all kinds that fly overhead, mostly overly politicized, a common denominator as an image of the beginning of a more constructive stage –although one intuits that, for the majority, it will be reduced to another verbiage without a healthy active impulse-: education. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: Camión de Rezagados
Milan Kundera wrote a few years ago, a novel titled «Slowness.» It is fiction, by the way quite complex, but it aims to show that always behind human attitudes, there have been, even in this century where everything seems to happen at very high speed, a friction between those who want to quickly get to the place or whatever decision it may be and those who seem to enjoy the slow pace, from time to time, to get to the destination in question. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LENTITUD DESALENTADORA
Cooperativism was born in the Western world, in distant times, to insert itself into society in the way of a constructive balance, I would say salutary, between the extreme, radicalized ideas of expansionist and inequitable capitalism and oppressive and impoverishing totalitarianism. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: DEL OLVIDO A LA DEFORMACIÓN
