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Blog posts January 2019

We have lost the ability to communicate rationally and intelligibly

This is the time of the year when I have to pay the municipal taxes for my business and, to do it, I went to the same municipal web site I have used for years, to pay online. Yet, to my surprise, the payment was not accepted. An automatic message said the information I entered was incorrect. 

I …

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We have lost the ability to communicate rationally and intelligibly

This is the time of the year when I have to pay the municipal taxes for my business and, to do it, I went to the same municipal web site I have used for years, to pay online. Yet, to my surprise, the payment was not accepted. An automatic message said the information I entered was incorrect. 

I b…

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Hemos perdido la capacidad de comunicarnos racional e inteligiblemente

Como todos los años, recientemente le tocó pagar los impuestos municipales de mi negocio y, para hacerlo, entré en el sitio web de la ciudad en la que resido, confiando en realizar el pago en línea. Pero, según una respuesta automática, el trámite había sido denegado porque la información que yo usé…

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El cierre del gobierno refleja (lamentablemente) el cierre de las mentes

Francisco Miraval

En Estados Unidos, todos hablan del cierre parcial del gobierno federal, que comenzó hace casi un mes. Pero pocos, muy pocos, hablan del cierre total de la mente estadounidense, que comenzó hace décadas, como bien lo anticipó en su momento el filósofo Allan Bloom. 

Aunque s…

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The government shutdown is, sadly, a reflection of the closing of our minds

Everybody in the United States is talking about the government shutdown, that is, the partial closing of the government for the last month. Few, if any, however, talk about the full closing of the American mind for the last three decades, as described by American philosopher Allan Bloom.

Even if …

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What do we see when we can only see ourselves?

Anais Nin once said that we don’t see things as they are, but as we are. And in his book The Burnout Society, philosopher Byung-Chul Han said that we, postmodern humans, have lost the ability of “taking time” in front of objects, including, for example, works of art, which we simply ignore.

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¿Qué vemos, cuando sólo nos vemos a nosotros mismos?

Decía Anais Nin que “no vemos las cosas como son, sino como somos”. Y, más recientemente, Byung-Chul Han afirmó en La Sociedad del Cansancio que los humanos de nuestra época hemos perdido la capacidad de “demorarnos” frente a objetos a los que ya no les prestamos la debida atención, como las…

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