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Argentina policy is having problems if you look in profile. Not that I do not have them if you look ahead, but worsen the time to observe how, with what attitudes, what logic and what types of agreements proposed by the various political forces. Any mortal, even one who is kept out of politics, is able to see that the profiles have been blurred to reach its parody.
you might say is not a new problem. It could be argued that workers were always represented by the right, the Liberals were almost fascist or within Peronism comes from Rosa Luxemburg to Lopez Rega through Laclau. But that, you know, is in some ways the realm of history. Let's leave it to historians, that there are very good.
The Unsharp update dilemma (rare word) is now in the hands of political expression close to what is known, for want of a better picture as progressivism. For some time this part all seems possible, in terms of names, political and electoral arrangements on the banks of the center. The lists for the next election may contain almost any combination, from the vulgar to the most imaginative.
in the country in the world where it is easier and costs less to reach the card progressive parties and groups from the moderate left blatantly play the same game as always noted for their immorality, the right. The Groucho Marxist, if the polls say the public does not want for this district, will be presented in another. If those same polls show no to MP, can say that if a president or legislator. Many even use the power of the media, who transcribed the thoughtful and persevering work of the consultants manufacturing applications with an ease and a staggering childishness.
As much as it hurts those who belong in some way to this continent, political, institutional practices, their logic of conflict resolution and leadership patterns are the most conservative of Argentina's policy of what addition, in these times, the problems of profile.
There is another interpretation, complementary and more distressing. It emerged that in reality everything is possible because it is also a lie. Nobody really wants to do what he says he really wants to do. It may not be entirely wrong to think that nobody or almost nobody seriously wants to institutionalize a progressive front but the intention is to stand out the best possible in terms of fees, in the next election. Only then can one explain that take precedence delirious amalgam rather than rational thinking and hospital agreements that allow live to ways of perceiving the world do not always coincide. Perhaps not too late to replace temporary entanglements agreements principles and objectives. Maybe we still have time to think together what kind of society we want for ourselves and for those who come. If we want an open and cosmopolitan or closed in on itself, a society that creates opportunities for personal growth or who profit from the conceptual component of poverty as their reason for being political.
have to work hard and fast. We are too close to the absence of intelligence and lack of a medium and long term, to guide and strangers in the building of a democratic leftist political hope will constitute the prelude to a stage where Peronism in two versions, like Janus, who decides on the future.
HIGUERA DE MIGUEL HERNANDEZ
"And you'll come to my garden and my fig tree"
he cried to his friend Miguel Ramón Hernández Sijé. In Orihuela still waiting patiently to both the humble tree, cornered and poor care because
"We have to talk about many things, soul mate, partner."
Species Higuera (Ficus carica) AGE 100 years
HEIGHT PERIMETER 5m 1.60 m 4.50 m DIAMETER CUP LOCATION Orihuela (Alicante).
Ahuehuete OF THE RETIREMENT Legend has it that this cypress that is dry in winter is the son leaves on the tree Hernan Cortes mourned the loss of Mexico City. Let the French put a gun in his cup. But no mention of the greetings that are branches and locals. Species
bald cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)
The relationship between the target and the construction of one's life is a central political issue. One of the ways that we can escape from a fixed destination is to try by all means do not end up speaking the language of the proposed something we do not want. I'm almost tempted to think that the thought of democracy could be simplified in this formula. One question that emerged in the discussion with commentators QUILT, which has been around me, creating a sensation as annoying as difficult to locate. The question is, analyzing Argentina's political scene, the next, Is a civil society and some form of community attachment outside the political omnipotence-client?
My answer is yes and, moreover, find no impediment or epistemological or political for that to happen. I would almost say that the existence of our society outside of those ties that populism patronage presented as an inevitable destination, opens the door to the health of democracy. At this point, it seems prudent to speak the dialect populist who is not ashamed to summarize all social activity in politics. So think about politics in terms of generating exclusivist takes collective belittle the idea of \u200b\u200bcivil society and, moreover, gives rise to the practice of politics itself additional weight that turns against itself and asphyxiation. Just imagine a society that does not need to talk politics and does not require the State to exist. As far as I'm concerned is excellent. Are we up to all these people are fairly happy and spend some free time to look at public affairs, the life of democracy can only improve.
The persistence in the justification of social ties and the community in terms of machine politics prepared, sometimes inadvertently, the way to arribar a la idea de que es deseable una sociedad de militantes. Y aquí creo que hay un punto muy fuerte. La política argentina, las más de las veces por pereza intelectual, fracasa al apelar a viejas soluciones para encarar los nuevos problemas. A la evidente falta de solidaridad que vive la Argentina, a la indisimulable fractura que sufrimos como sociedad, los políticos argentinos, todos, los buenos y los malos, le responden con la necesidad de "compromiso militante" o con apelaciones del tipo "milito, luego existo". Estos enunciado están destinados al vacío, muy poca gente se siente hoy interpelada por semejante invocación al renunciamiento subjetivo. En las sociedades abiertas el lazo social y comunitario se genera por fuera policy. These forms of association, then with a bit of luck, get involved with public issues under the formula Rorty, ie, from Thursday to Sunday, leaving the rest of the week to look after their private affairs. And the pragmatists know it's all right, though in practice we freeze the soul can not speak anything we wanted.
The Epogen, in short, involves the temporary suspension of the trial. This would enable, in principle, an object access to rigorous, more thorough and free of interpretations prejudices and intentions.
The Baldwin, defined as the fraction of the ruling Peronist but also the myriad of voices that make their symbolic universe, has launched an uncanny way of understanding the Epogen that means: All the facts, policies, decisions, statements, proposals and statements are the work of government must be suspended when looking at the reality of the country.
Under the rule of such a philosophical and political nonsense, the Kirchner obstinately to speak of without mentioning its use of the State and forces us all to participate in any way from its relentless fight against the "media device" while leaving out the analysis with state management holding company that resulted from the State.
For the Government the current state of affairs does not include their own actions. Things are as they are by the work of the past, corporations, power and media. The assertion of the enormous power of corporations deserve what they call democratic discussion, but it is essential to carry it out also considering the enormous material and symbolic power in our country has set state. This should be especially to strengthen and put in its rightful place in an unequal society, which is the site of the weakest, who suffer the cruelty of the powerful, even the state itself.
Similarly, when holding a hypothetical permanent government asserted identity construction in the fight against corporations struck by the invisibility of the discussion on union power. The government minimizes its complicity in the excesses of economic and political power of the unions hoarse while speaking out against factional powers. Menting the hangman's rope in the house, insists that the problem the SRA (which may be true), Clarín and some judges but sits with Moyano and regardless Pedraza and his ethical stature and the damage to its huge share of power they have for democracy in Argentina. If the government is so busy defending themselves from the onslaught partisan, you can start working out what to do with union power rather than become complicit in their business and their inexplicable tightening authoritarian. This will not be possible if the government insists escape himself in the characterization of the problems.
Epogen The capricious government assumes its highest point in the discussion and demonstration on the media and their relationship with politics. The government insists it is in an uncompromising battle against what its adherents have called "the media devices." This appeal seeks to delineate dudosísima media space working for the failure of national policies and popular. At this point not much interested in the historical treatment of the subject or probability, it is certain that one of the flags of the government for a while is their "struggle" against the power of the media that are not related. No one can argue that the relationship between media and democratic political experience growing recognition complexities and thoughtful treatment is almost an imposition of this. Incredibly, the Kirchner insists on giving importance to this debate so fiercely as they used to refuse to include the group of media companies that have been created or purchased to "defend" the "model." The question is powerfully conveyed in both the government claiming ranks to become a cultural phenomenon mythical struggle for hegemony, how can intellectually hold a deep discussion about the question of the relationship between democratic politics and the media without take into account cases such as Time Argentine media group generated by the government?
There are several ways to answer this question, one is that the government has misread Husserl and Schultz, the other is that the wicked game of misrepresentation and impersonation that is Kirchnerism forces us all to consume one serving of cynicism frankly preventable. And on top of the bottle comes in popular demand.
almost always occurs. Reading the political section of newspapers in Argentina is bleak. Is an example of bad literature, anything can happen but never reaches beauty. The characters are changing, but there is always someone who embodies the everyday life ruin everything. Like those comedies that are set up cheap for the summer, the characters come and go, hide for others (citizens) do not see them, they cheat, lie and pretend to false rogues, get married and descasar. Not a game, a trap. Absolutely everything can be possible, just have to wait a little while. With a little patience, the viewer will be cursed with poor surprise, scandal vain.
Today, as on that morning in the Bar El Comercial, Glorieta de Bilbao, Madrid, (ever finish counting the meeting) found that MMA is right. There really is some truth to that imagined community of which I spoke and your letter of today in Babelia has the strength of irrefutable proof. Using two films as a battering ram, Antonio discovers his sensitive eye on politics in a brutal and simple. It does so under the sign of a question that is also common, why can not we do some things than others if they do?
On July 8 last year I wrote a shout in QUILT about the macrismo delinquencies on political reform in the City. From there until now, has been shown macrismo as a political force of a strong but questionable consistency. Beyond the novelty of the statement by the Head of Government on political reform in the short message is always open legislative sessions, generic contempt respect to any share of the popular choices (that's a choice and not a moment in history when they decide the income of professional politicians) remains intact.
This time its concrete manifestation of the will leads us-government, expressed by macrista and Kirchner (also acknowledge consistency in this marriage) who insist that the elections will be unified and all the charges. The arguments have changed over time and have mutated as revealed their remaining inconsistencies or unusual, like the skin of a snake. In the beginning was the cost, then a sudden concern for the leisure time of citizens of the city and now an appeal to rationality.
in the way of consistency should be noted that the only concern of the forces policies that support this position is their own interests. Anything that encourages a certain inclination for the autonomy of the city, respect the popular will, for the necessary discussion of local issues, can be sustained when promoting a choice of eight categories simultaneously. It is true that the political system of the city was not spared nothing to make it a bastard to face the decentralization process posed by the municipalities, but the fact remains that it is a constitutional mandate and that is a collective process can be improved over time . Nor is it strange that when ever they want, at all times, shows that the electoral calendar acts like a maze intricate, subject to the vagaries involved.
all under the government of a political force that challenges the way of novelty of prevarication and a Peronist who "acts" while opposing the parliamentary spare tire macrismo.
The state of the discussion will summarize the fixing of the calendar shows the lack of interest by the majority forces, government and opposition, for raising a reform agenda. It is not uncommon, for over ten years that I have to participate in discussions, post in writing programs and projects so you never miss anything or worse, the discussion back several boxes on each roll of the dice of the policy. But not only that demonstrates a profound contempt for institutional quality and the problems of the city.
there a way in which professional politicians could show the rest of the mortals who try to do things differently. It is necessary to discuss at length and seriously political reform in the City. We are far behind, which requires that the principle that debate should end up setting a timetable for elections in stone and walk away from the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking electoral alchemy unrecognizable.
finished reading the profile on Sunday. Quentin and Lanata look a little pessimism certainly refined and allegorical. Either recognize something, suggest something that can be shared. A kind of choking, suffocation intellectual and opinion that makes us ask the audience, for who will listen, and who read it. It seems fun, but both speak against the single thought some ended up being his commissioners, speaking in prose without knowing it. Which we did not so much importance to the matter, the plurality confident, almost to the automation of democratic virtue, threaded end discussing things we do not want guys who do not interest us. And on top, with a sense of irreparable loss which leaves only possibilities of personal redemption. Some will go to Boston, one to San Clemente and the other to the place of his dreams, but the collective construction of anything resembling what we want to wait until the censors, whose first reaction to prohibit what not like, and rebuke those who anathematize let us get a little place where arms and blades, to see if you find our little presence.
Sunday, early for a Sunday, begin to look at the newspapers online. I say look, because reading, read what is said, is not. When finished with the serious daily, I go to some blogs. After the blogs, journals less serious, to get there embarrassment is Argentine Time. Touring is a complete editorial you think the national and popular culture over the human race. And what is already a brand of Kirchner, hunt in the zoo, so that the conclusion reached is that they think so, especially those who follow him and not opponents. Nobody in their right mind, and I know what I'm saying, read this rag unless you want to listen to the music of the song Kirchner.
But something I read caught my attention even more than usual. In a featured title, but also hidden digital version of the paper promises its readers, "Controversy of two writers on Argentina's military dictatorship" and had a debate between Mario Vargas Llosa and Juan José Saer. The lowering of the note said, quote, "In 1995, the Nobel Prize Literature published in The country an item on the chilling confessions of the soldiers who participated in the bloody repression. The author of a gloss, indignantly answered publicly. "
I was surprised enough to go into the note to see it said. I wanted to see what was the tone of a debate that I missed and will certainly interest me.
Grande my surprise, Saer at any time he is "outraged" with Mario Vargas Llosa, much less than that, use the Peruvian article in El Pais, Madrid, to think deeply about the dictatorship and Argentina. Allocates responsibilities assumed limitations and makes clever social state recognition of Argentina which promoted, accepted and endured the last coup, but nothing bad about the last Nobel prize. Of course, with justice, Saer one paragraph devastating to the political culture of violence, Montoneros, to ERP and their responsibilities obvious what the story then poured over all the Argentines.
Not that, even for a moment, would have thought that a newspaper like Argentina could play with time cleaning, but I think demonstration of contempt for his readers and, further, explains what happens when it comes the issue of opinion and the right to adequate communication with the banality. Another chapter worth the fictional construction of a past, present and future matter in which the Government is clearly the best student.
Scene One: Libya
The outcome of the episode of popular rebellion in Libya does not support or allow overstepping conjecture considerations positive. There is much internal and external rumpus to recognize someone who is good. But there is one thing Obviously, the Libyan regime's oppression, enslavement and death. It is a regime that employs censorship, violence and torture against opponents and a regime that is held in a debased relationship between politics and religious fanaticism. At present the country is in a state of tremendous devastation and opponents are treated "like rats" in the words of the dictator Qaddafi. In the last week 69,000 people fled to refugee status Libya
Scene two: financial penalty for a private consulting firm that released its own data on inflation.
government blatantly lying about cost of living indexes and price evaluation fined 500,000 pesos to a private consultant issued a measuring their own work, of course, dispute the official figures. A strategy abusive, authoritarian, intimidating and cowardly run from a particular state for a reason directly connected to a public policy advocated by the Government. It is not fair trade or a reasonable state interference in terms of control but a violent attitude, judgmental and clumsy National Government represented by the Government.
Scene Three: Intellectual Kirchner Vargas Llosa does not want to open the Book Fair. The president seems much and intellectuals retract
Exciting free sample (?) Of ineffectiveness militant intellectual cowardice, this episode becomes apparent height of the participants. First, the arguments against Horacio González Vargas Llosa, well away from Florida but cryptic prose, showed a very strong authoritarian bent. Forster followed, of course, reaffirming the national character of the order of "runs" (up there democratic temperament) of Nobel writer. But what happened? A President It seemed a lot and told them to tone down and withdraw the request. And what did they do? Declined the request, leaving it very clear what their militant mood, and what degree of submissiveness and lack of personal discretion. The truth is that even with the barbarity that contains the original request, surely a response to an interpretation supported. The only decent thing was to stay in that position and banks to come, with the separation of the charge included in the case of Gonzalez. Imagine for a moment that one of the heroes of our intellectuals have acted like they almost do not exist in racing humanistic literature. Imagine the very Gramsci (probably admired to Open Letter), meekly obeying political orders of the Communist Party chief.
These three scenes, different in density, size and grandeur, are united on one point. In all three cases there was a rapid, specific and firm in any relevant political actor of the opposition. With the exception of Margarita Stolbizer, that days later asked the Government to break diplomatic relations with Libya, none of the candidates for president, for example, rejecting the situation said. The Government is a shy enough sampling of concern and parties (I mean their bodies institutional) did not like a topic that had something to say. No site has even resulted in favor of it. Nor has any portal of human rights organizations felt compelled to reference and take a stand. The same with the case of the consultant. No one seemed an excessive use of state power, no one seemed to be threatened the freedom to express opinions and the freedom of work. Not a single party, no single organization of citizens, not a single NGO that works similar themes say a word. About the farce between intellectuals and government made jokes. It is true that the pathos of the episode deserves mocking laughter, but serious thing that a group of outstanding teachers is shown as explicitly as state employees without their own criteria.
Nobody felt called to do a serious analysis, large, what they mean one of three scenes in terms of quality of our democracy. Surely this reflects a more widespread social temperament of what you wanted. It does not seem possible to think that this can happen if you do not have a social state and collective that fosters and to the line. Argentina democratic life loses power while the heat of populist promises to share voice, announces and welcomes crowds congratulations. Maybe it is time to think if you really do not have the unbridled Unsharp consequences of identity politics that allows any possibility of agreement is possible, that any "electoral assembly" can take place. You may need to consider for a moment at least, that actions have consequences and that the pursuit of immediate revenue pops hopes to have, once, with a democracy pleasant, quiet, restrained, but livable.