Learning how to: observe, think, and speak/write (express) -- the three tasks we need teachers for, according to #Nietzsche.
Kids in school should get a #Humanities education that is as good -if not better than- their STEM training.
You can't make a virtuous citizen without this.
If the West doesn't mortally oppose anti-freedom regimes, it can buy some time and perhaps still sleep comfortably at night for a while... But, what will happen to our sense of purpose and self-worth in the longer term?
Por ahí leí que la mejor forma de estar informado actualmente, para entender lo que pasa en el mundo, es leyendo Ciencia Ficción... De alguna manera, Gaetano Mosca y Carl Schmitt predijeron hace mucho, y con exactitud, el advenimiento de las tiranías tecnocientíficas.
Had a film maker ask me, yesterday, if also I -like so many of the Venezuelans he has interviewed recently- believe that America is sliding down a slippery slope of freedom losses... I said: «yes, 3000%.» His comment made me feel proud of my compatriots, for a change!
The U.S. political system is really a device. Its chief role is to convince the populace to assume the following as an axiom:
*The maintenance of the so-called liberal world order and the national interest of the United States of America are identical.*
Nationalism shatters this.
La #mentalidad doñeril venezolana es función -principalmente- del ascenso social abrupto, inorgánico, a una clase media de empleados, surgida en la 2da mitad del siglo XX, demasiado atada todavía a raíces pueblerinas y sin entendimiento de lo que significa la creación de riqueza.
Hace 50 años comenzó la 'diplomacia del ping pong':
USA asume la crianza, pública e irrestricta, del monstruo que hoy es la República Popular China. Gracias, globalismo, santo patrono del Partido Comunista de China, y mil gracias, Kissinger-Nixon y sus descendientes bipartidistas