There is an old phrase that for decades has been among the favorites of Danilo Arbilla, a colleague whom I respect and with whom I have shared years of journalism, and it falls like a glove for this column that I decided to write: Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: una ley a derogar
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
Estoy mirando mi vida/ en el cristal de un charquito,/ y pasan, mientras medito,/ los años perdidos,/ los sueños marchitos…”. Primera estrofa de Homero Manzi para su tango De barro, sencilla y conmovedora síntesis del hombre sin retorno frente al destino final. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: LA VIDA EN UN CHARQUITO
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
Eduardo Arolas fue su mejor amigo, quizás porque ya venía por la senda –eterna, no sólo de aquellos lejanos tiempos- que arrastra a la perdición sin remedio. Y fue Arolas quien dedicó su bellísimo tango Lágrimas a la madre de ese amigo, cuando éste ya se le iba yendo: no es casual que la cubierta del disco muestre a una llorosa mujer recibiendo de madrugada a su hijo, que llega en penoso estado arrastrando un violín. Continúa leyendo LA AVENTURA DEL TANGO: TRISTEZA DE LA PERDICIÓN
The Dutch ethologist Frans de Waal acquired much of his prestige after publishing the book «The politics of chimpanzees», in which – as I have already described more than once – he analyzes experiences carried out by scientists with these animals at the Arnhem Zoo, comparing them with the essential human political facts that, even practiced today, come from ancient times. Continúa leyendo EL PENSADOR: ¿HACIA DONDE VA LA POLÍTICA?
