Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Converting Bath To Shower Ideas

I accept the challenge, En Garde!












En otros tiempos  cualquier aspirante a ser considerado l'Enfant terrible , tenía a gala ser de izquierda. Puede que no comulgase con tal o cual ortodoxia marxista, pero defendía los valores de justicia y libertad que eran propios de una forma de pensamiento que, todavía, seguimos llamando progresismo. Las causas más nobles; los derechos del trabajador, de las mujeres, de los oprimidos en todo el mundo, hallaban en él su abogado y su embajador. Por sentido ético, mucha veces, por vanidad en ocasiones, por esa condición provocadora que debe tener todo intellectual.

In many respects the ideas advocated were triumphant, if not in society, certainly in the consciousness. If our time have something good, they have it, it is also thanks to the thinkers of the left dissatisfied, troublemakers, uncomfortable. Today in curricula and bills are some of those ideas that in other times, appeared to be extreme, civil rights, egalitarianism, the primacy of the collective interest, criticism ... and many more that are irritating to those looking for a traditional world ordered.

Today there is a new type of intellectual.
Some of them can be ignored as a mere sycophant, propagandist reactionary positions, and in the 50's of last century, had been considered obsolete.
However there is another type of thinker. Unusual scholar, lucid, precise and with the ability to think beyond prejudice, is a character who deserves our attention.

is the new organic intellectual of the liberal right (or even extreme) and, as it should be, poses any serious reflection can be ignored.

want to bother, and succeeds, comfortably installed consciences. It aims to create, and blogs in which prefers to publish demonstrate their success, new ways of thinking, challenging, defiant.

contempt and not usually listen carefully to their arguments. Responds, obviously, the interests of large power and arguing in a speech anti-political and sometimes anti system that can be misleading at first sight. Is the enemy, and try not to hide it, of organized labor, but gets along well with the individual worker; your best ally. His slogan, bold, before the crisis is, dare we, the solution is not less capitalism, not more. Defend democracy, he says, but prefers Republic, a republic of equal but where some are better than others.

worst thing you can do about this type of thinker is ignored. Nor is it necessary to refute it. Raise questions that require intelligent and thoughtful responses. Speech is not enough to barricade or mantras Orthodox, on the contrary, it reinforces the power of the conservative intellectual discourse. One has to assume those of their criticisms are valid, and we are surprised to see how some overlap with the tradition of the left. You have to use smart methods and approach the twenty-first century public multiverse in language stripped of conventions and clichés of the past.



have to beat them at their own game, raising his sword, and attack wave background ...


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