Peter J. Ramírez writes today in World one of the largest proprietary sheets
I am not Socrates, Glaucon, nor any of you, but if every reader of the world have sent this article, or at least Internet links to which I will refer to now, five leaders, activists and voters of the PSOE, more than half of the Socialist electorate know what to expect on what is happening right now in one of the richest communities, cultivated and determinants of Spain. And my chronic optimism leads me to believe that would mean that Zapatero would have to change policy or much of their clientele change of footwear.
Leading by example will forward the names of my five special target: José Bono, Francisco Vázquez, Alfonso Guerra, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra and Manuel Chaves. As you see, is not a question of affinities, but of pragmatism. Among them are some who fall me good, bad and regular. But do not ask you to accept my ideas. It is sufficient to access loans few minutes of your attention for deposit in a public service available to anyone via the Web
Just type
gencat.net first and usher in the official website of the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia, led by the regional version of the party that owns this quintet of famous men. Then proceeds to make three clicks of the computer mouse to move by paragraph fear, arrived in the area devoted to Catalan language and end to end in the syllabus of calls Linguistiques Assurance Offices. In that screen there are five
postal and electronic addresses, with their phone and fax numbers, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bGirona, Lleida, Tarragona and Tortosa, which can go "a Queixa or a complaint about the dret of viure in catalá "with the reassuring warning that "the confidencialitat is guaranteed."
We are not in Berlin in the 30's, or Orwell's 1984, not in Kabul by the Taliban. It is here, right now, among us, under the supposed effect of a democratic constitution, where does the customs police, which prompts the neighbor, family, betraying the traveler under the alibi of anonymous coward who is beyond a pattern of cultural behavior rigidly established by political power. And all at the service of the right to live in Catalan!
Until now we knew we could live in Calella de la Costa, in Logroño or Bollullos County. You could live on the streets Aribau, Plaza Mayor or the Los Galápagos.Que could live in a third, in an attic or a basement. We might live in a democracy, a dictatorship or a soft dictatorship. Even that, extensively, could live in peace with oneself, in a state of anxiety or in the wilderness of souls. But what is it to live in Catalan?
Quite simply, the same syntax puts it: living in Catalan means converting a mere tool of communication and language is a membership site that includes not only the spoken or written, but Gargantua as an insatiable engulfs all other facets of the activity human. Catalan is spoken, of course, but also believed in Catalan, he is in Catalan, Catalan dreams, participating in public life in Catalan,
plays football in Catalan, is applauded at the stadium in Catalan private relationships are maintained in Catalan, snoring, gasps and belches, strokes, hit and Catalan press is lived, in short, in Catalan. And that's not a fantasy or a metaphor, but a right. Not me. He says the Government controlled by the Socialist Party of Catalonia.
We are therefore transparent to the expression of despotism and stark language that serves as a battering ram, figurehead drill and a national register that has been made to the draft statute adopted by 85% of the Parliament nothing less than "a civic duty to engage in the collective project." A "group project" is not, nor can it be, another, but the "nation-building in Catalonia."
Here are the foundations of freedom-drama disguised under the appetizing post-Olympic facade of modernity, the Forum of Cultures, the Torre Agbar and magical goals from Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto'o. Because, according to the implacable logic of any bulldozer rationalism and individual self-determination, the right to live in Catalan are subjects all inhabitants of the Principality generates highly rated obligations of others, for their implementation, and provides government coercive and repressive mechanisms suitable for anyone evading compliance.
This is a metaphysical atavism beyond logic of free will. The Office of Fair Language, officials deployed canton to canton and fundamentalist zealots of the Omnium Cultural cornucopia Galinsoga furious reverse, measuring the size, visibility and correction of the signs of businesses or product labels, covered on the same moral bases that serve to measure Wahhabi religious police in Saudi Saudi length skirts.
Just another click to see from the agenda of the Consortium for Linguistic Normalisation "and the name indicates how abnormal is, they say, not living in the rich Catalan casuistry that all this legislation creates. In one corner is informed of the traveling exhibition on Catalan courses for adults in which is reflected "from the uncertainty of arrival to the peace of mind when you feel like one more", which only happens after I learned " host language. "In another corner are presented as a South American and North African José introduced as Yussouf who pay to play the role of the obedient coral Uncle Tom: "No pretendre viure podem parlar i à Catalunya in castellà Només." Two folds further found that "the U.S. of Catalan is consolidated in the daily life of Santa Coloma" because although, according to the local center director for Linguistic Normalisation, unfortunately only 19% of the population uses it, has already been achieved that 51% of the Santa Coloma information received through teaching, administration, economy and trade is in that language, going well, even with a aprobadillo, the barrier of political correctness. And one more keystroke here note that three-quarters of the same is true Cornellà where, however, of the 113 papers presented at the last cartoon competition sponsored by Centre for Linguistic Normalisation own, 96 were in Castello and only 17 in Catalan.
Just until recently the mayors of those towns where so tenaciously is advanced along the road to talk to people in a language other than that people insist on using, or you are Manuela de Madre y José Montilla, the have now become key parts of preaching and implementing the holistic approach of the new statute. In addition Montilla added this week to their string of curses at me for days Two new shows of his understanding of public life, has ordered people to pay the State to find out if I have any credit or at least condoned unpaid by a bank and, pending the outcome of their investigation, I identified with the 'cave media. " A first answer you files that perhaps only he has access, to the latter, do let Plato.
"Imagine a sort of cavernous underground shelter provided with a long entrance open to the light, which extends the full width of the cave, and men who are in it since childhood, tied by the legs and neck so you have to sit still and watch only forward "Thus begins the famous Book VII of The Republic in which the great Athenian philosopher makes his teacher Socrates dialogue with one of his brothers, Glaucon-witted representing the average citizen.
Well, after describing the ghostly flame lighting the backs of the prisoners and the show of objects, characters and figures that circulated on an intermediate gateway, Socrates, Plato asks, "Do you think that those who are well have been another something of themselves or their peers, but the shadows cast by the fire on the wall in front of them? "To which Glaucon responds, while we can imagine him turning right and left cervix, "How else throughout his life have been forced to keep their heads still?"
going now for a quarter century since the political class of the specimen showed a crude smear Transition on its clean record of service to incur the blunder of leaving the control of education in the hands of the regions and thus elite separatist Basque Country and Catalonia. In Santa Coloma de Doña Manuela-before-the reassuring Gramanet approved 51% of standard language communities is obtained, in fact, thanks to that 74% of instruction is taught in Catalan. No bad for a population in which 80% are still clinging to its status as speaking Castilian And woe to the teacher who, according to latest guidelines, does not give all the subjects in Catalan, except to make the kinds of languages \u200b\u200b"foreign." Such abduction
teacher, coupled with the well-paid condescension of regional media and local projects of their employers indigenous identity is what has shaped the latest version of the legendary Myth of the Cave that gives so overt signs Montilla to ignore, to dare to invoke his name to christen the speck in your neighbor's eye, when in fact it describes so perfectly the beam carrying inserted in their own.
There have been many interpretations of the diabolical mechanism conceived by Plato to distort knowledge, and therefore human experience, by casting shadows on captive audiences. The latest, of course, he is referred to the film, television, video and constant Internet.Pero own any exegesis is that in any case, that consumed
handling, well manipulated, should appear in scene manipulators.
In an article published not long ago Professor Francisca Martin-Cano, an expert in mythology, made a telling contemporary translation of engineering Social alienation: "If one Taliban grows conditioned, locked and tied in the cave of the schools in Afghanistan, where he makes only study the Koran, and who is denied the opportunity to broaden their sources of information, if only receives reinforcements to act as teachers, interpreters of the Koran cruel, women who see a being of lower nature, which must confine and subordinate, which can be expected to learn! Why are we surprised that they adopt a commitment to remain attached to their beliefs and defend
selflessly to death? "
Mutatis mutandis, replace the madrasas not only the school network Government but by the broad concept of Catalan oasis, put the new statute in place of the Qur'an and understood that the look between commiserations and derogatory to the inferiority of females is intended for all those who are not able to live in Catalan.
a moment: those who are already beginning to throw their hands in their head, to the rawness of the analogy, I would ask them before completing the position, think about why, five years ago, is unusual Catalan journalists themselves use the word "Taliban" for decried a long list of leaders, cadres and militants of both ERC and CiU as in
have never ever change heard mentioned, and see them all, "says anyone from the PSOE and the PP.
That, as soon as I got access to power, Carod-Rovira and his men went to climb onto the projector shadows to try to bring to its logical reductionist distortion already outlined during the era of Pujol, was part of guión.Como in the fable of the frog and the scorpion, "is in their nature" to behave well. The two anomalies unheard of what is happening now in the cave are the PSC nationalism has become co-producer of the film and the first rows of the court of hostages are occupied by the national government, the Socialist parliamentary group and own leadership of the PSOE.
In this situation of political captivity have led them visions of Maragall, the morbid delectation Zapatero in any strategy that involves the denial of the Spain that has inherited from the PP and the parliamentary arithmetic. But it is José Montilla which is responsible for the dubious honor of having as diverse conjugated triple factors from the executive producer status industrious, efficient and energetic head waiter or usher, which is, communication with the Caixa and other powers that Catalan, first secretary-engineer the PSC
and Minister of Industry that distributes rewards and punishments.
Looking for a punch line, that those who most Indeed he did, of course, was tied to his president, began his empty explanation Montilla parliament on Wednesday claiming that he is not in politics "to line." Accepted the premise, since no one from this newspaper has made any allegation of personal corruption, what is "in politics," Montilla, I wondered I ipso facto.
idealistic motives is impossible, since neither socialism nor represent the interests of those it is imposed by force any cultural metamorphosis seem to have anything to do with the agenda so diligently serves to implement. In fact, without calling Jew, let alone this, "Nazi-stress their role as service Cordoba Iznajar the irredentism of the gentlemen of Sarria is equivalent to the prisoners more certain and less scrupulous of the concentration camps were open to play when their e the rose to the rank of kapos. And not in vain Victor Hugo said that much worse than committing a crime is "one that produces the dark" so that the offender is not found and punished. Excluding
also, for reasons of vanity patents ", only a huge lust for power can be understood in this neat and dapper clerk that up to proclaim their honesty in making dazzling y daca de las preguntas que se contestan desde el escaño necesita leer unas cuartillas, probablemente escritas por otra persona. Empiezo a darme cuenta de lo peligroso que puede ser un tímido como él, con tanta astucia como deficiente formación, cuando ha entendido que sus grandes oportunidades de dominio y control sobre los demás pasan por poner su tenacidad de hormiga laboriosa, sus telas de araña pacientemente tendidas durante años y años a través de capitanes, tenientes y sargentos, a disposición de un proyecto tan ajeno a su propia idiosincrasia como el del nacionalismo catalán más radical.
Nadie puede discutir, de hecho, la brillantez del plan director que de forma tan decisiva está contribuyendo boost to the nationalist cave is, paradoxically, the focus of power that political and economic destiny of the rest of the English. Both their scheme of communicating vessels between the parties that dominate the Government and the governing bodies of the Caixa as his claim that he is in the rest of Spain where the financial tentacles, oil or electric a large group of semi-Catalan suck resources cover the opulence that nationalism autistic accurate to drug their captives well have the perverse wit and arouse even the magnetic fascination of evil. If you keep the mechanisms of political control over the savings banks under the draft statute and the triumph of the bid for Endesa, the English people would be that every time I topped up the tank, we light the light or get cash from the ATM, we would be funding the destruction of constitutional Spain. And no one would condone any payment.
Is there life after the cave? Is it still possible to remedy this collective slide into the jaws of the cave? Plato raises towards the end of their dialogue with the complex problem of flight and return of the prisoner. Does not take much foresight, courage and a lot of moral leadership to face the risks around the kingdom of the shadows, after meeting the wide variety of real objects are illuminated by light. When, anticipating his own end, Socrates asks: "Did not kill (the" constantly chained "), if they find ways to get your hands and kill him, who tried to untie and let them go?" Glaucon does not hesitate a moment to answer that yes.
The fury unleashed against the courageous and categorical views of Federico Jiménez Losantos, defend their right to express them within the law is not shared, of course, each and every one of his words, or spiritual ostracism that relentlessly subjected who as Francesc de Carreras, Albert Boadella Arcadi Espada or embody the clarity of the last Catalan cosmopolitan highlight the few illusions that can be done about the adults entered the cave from early childhood.
thing different is what will happen with the new llegados.De is why I give much importance to the successful fuss that a minister and Bono, to which some will have almost as eager as most annoying reporters, can do from the edge of the cave, to try to get the president of his happy reverie. Or the thoughtful reflections latest Alfonso Guerra. Or the ability to Paco Vazquez to lead the rebellion municipal Spain calling a spade a spade and wine, wine. Or a torrential force Ibarra from a distance at which personal and ideological antagonism wish a full recovery. Or the old-own, sooner or later, you will do Chaves as the last guardian of the granaries of the party.
I sincerely believe that this very serious stake we will win the advocates of constitutional consensus through free democratic game, so that either Zapatero will be the star of the cave prisoner of Carod, Maragall and his beloved Kapo Cordoba, which is what I personally want most, "or cease to be president Zapatero government in Spain after a not too distant early elections.
In any case, the fight against the tenets of ethnic or linguistic nationalism is a noble enough effort to even bound to the outcome of the battle. Why "Philosophy" and, of course, journalism is problematic to begin to find what for others is evident, clear and transparent, and that, strange as it may seem, often the desire for certainty and the search Excluding the truth. "
course, if someone criticizes me, I will have no choice but to recognize that end an article like this with a quote and Xavier Rubert de Ventos-inspiring and editor of much of the statute, as well as cloth Maragall tears when the black dog of depression seeps through the courtyard of the orange-is indeed a low blow.
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