EL PENSADOR: LA AGRESIVIDAD SOCIAL

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

EL PENSADOR: LA TRAMPA DEL ENUNCIADO

The generic meaning of the verb to enunciate is –except, as an exception, in its application to mathematics- of impressive clarity: “Explain, briefly and simply, an idea”. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: LA TRAMPA DEL ENUNCIADO

La aventura del tango: yo tomo porque…

La reunión fue informal: unos cuantos artistas populares y Perón, a la búsqueda de terminar con la censura de letras con uso del lunfardo y, sobre todo, con la temática del alcohol. Continúa leyendo La aventura del tango: yo tomo porque…

EL PENSADOR: DESCREDITO PELIGROSO

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

EL PENSADOR: Camión de Rezagados

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

EL PENSADOR: ESPACIOS Y ACTIVIDADES

THE THINKER: SPACES AND ACTIVITIES En un contexto de desbordada politización, con tufo a campaña pre-electoral adelantada a empellones, el oficialismo y la oposición están incrementando un debate que, cual parabrisas de automóvil moderno, va tal vez demasiado rápido de … Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ESPACIOS Y ACTIVIDADES