Elsa 🆚

Internacionalista. Ibero. Georgetown University.

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

In 1930, the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset published The Revolt of the Masses, a book that still feels uncomfortably prophetic. His central target was not the poor or the working class, but a new kind of human being he called the “mass man”.

The mass man, Ortega argued, is defined by attitude rather than income. He is the ordinary person who is perfectly satisfied with himself, demands nothing higher of his own character or intellect, and yet insists that his mediocrity be treated as a right. He does not defer to excellence, competence, or higher standards. He regards them with suspicion or resentment. What previous ages saw as the privilege of the few - political influence, cultural authority, the right to shape society - the mass man now claims as his due, without any corresponding effort to rise above the average.

Ortega believed this type of person had been produced by the very success of modern civilisation. Rising living standards, mass education, and liberal institutions had given ordinary people unprecedented power and comfort. But they had not produced a corresponding sense of responsibility or humility before higher achievements. The result was a revolt: the mass man refused to accept the authority of superior knowledge, culture, or character. He demanded that everything be brought down to his level.

The danger, Ortega warned, was that a civilisation cannot survive if its central actors no longer respect the standards that made it possible. When the average begins to dominate without aspiring to anything beyond itself, excellence is undermined, institutions decay, and politics becomes an expression of resentment rather than responsibility.

Ortega’s diagnosis remains unsettling because it is not a complaint about poverty or exclusion. It is a warning about self-satisfied mediocrity armed with power.

[Antonio Ocaranza @aocaranza]

Para lograr la paz hoy ya no basta con la firma en un armisticio entre los bandos beligerantes; ante la multiplicidad de actores no estatales jugando a la violencia, difícilmente volverá a haber paz como las que vimos en el siglo XX escribe @DavidNajera
https://t.co/Ywzt5gy8vL

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@AlessandraRdlv Hola @AlessandraRdlv en el Jardín Ramón López Velarde sobre Antonio M. Anza hay un tiradero de desecho de perros tanto en bolsas como por todo el parque. ¿Sería posible limpiar y vigilar ese espacio verde?

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@ninja_padrino That’s awesome. But the job opportunities need to be there after graduation too.

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@salwanese @UnseenJapanSite Interesting and sad. Being from Mexico where poverty is ever present to the point of desensitization its easy to find the Japanese society as pretty “even”at first sight. But little is known of what goes on off the tourist route. Thanks for sharing and shedding light on this.

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@UnseenJapanSite Súper interesting! Are there any other articles or books English to read about the subject? Is poverty regionalized in the country? For a society so protective of their own how can they fail to support those struggling? Thanks for sharing

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@AngelaBelcamino The corruption is the point. The demand of a nation’s president to break the rules of a world tournament because he didn’t like the call. These tournaments always have controversial calls. People live with them. This cheapens the tournament and it means it can be manipulated.

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@ninja_padrino The cafe patio is amazing. I didn’t want to leave! 💕

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@gotrice2024 Renewable*

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@gotrice2024 Yep. 2 words. Climate change. Wish countries would take the opportunity to move away from oil and just focus on renewal resources.
Cheaper, cleaner, conflict free. But here we are.

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@lopezdoriga Eso es primer mundo. Respeto!

[Salva Gutiérrez Solís @gutisolis]

Hace meses alquilé un pequeño trastero para guardar cosas que ya no caben en casa. En las pocas veces que he venido, todo ha sido normal, pero hoy pasa algo extraño: alguien ha ordenado las cajas de otro modo y en el suelo hay una carta del Tarot, la XIV, La Templanza...>>>

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@gutisolis Ánimo!! Un día a la vez. Que todo siga por buen camino. 🤝

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@gutisolis Tienes algún correo electrónico donde enviártelo. Creo no estamos conectados aquí. Solo para no enviar las fotos (y un video) de forma abierta. Saludos

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@gutisolis Mejor me quedo en casa 😅. Fabuloso hilo!! Y los efectos de sonido de las fotografías y pequeños videos wow!

Oye @gutisolis y si te mandamos una fotografía y de ahí nos escribes un hilo? Como por ejemplo la del gnomo que apareció en mi jardín una mañana? 🫣😏

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@gvaldescas Que fabuloso reencuentro de mentes brillantes. Siento no poder estar ahí. Será transmitido por zoom?

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@afoncerrada Pero el extremista religioso es I.ran 🙄🙄

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@piataracenagout 🫠

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@AlessandraRdlv Podrían también cambiar/ actualizar los letreros de las calles en la Roma Norte y Álvaro Obregón? O son súper viejos o simplemente les pusieron los nombres con una cinta adhesiva que ya se cayó. Gracias!! 🙏🏼

[Elsa 🆚 @esnevely]

@RafaelLaveagaR Feliz Año Nuevo Cónsul! 🌟 Se te extraña en DC! Un abrazo y mis mejores deseos para el 2026.