April 2010
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“The essence of nice people is that they hate life as manifested in tendencies to...”
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March 2010
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Salvation
…They have thought that misery and cruelty and degradation were due to tyrants or priests or capitalists or Germans, and that if these sources of evil where overthrown there would be a general change of heart and we would all live happy ever after. Holding these beliefs, they have been willing to wage a ”war to end war”. Comparatively fortunate were those who...
November 2009
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Pacto para el 'no'
Una democracia que no logra construir acuerdos. Un sistema político donde los partidos no tienen incentivos para la colaboración. Las reformas que México necesita no ocurren por la falta de consensos, es lo que se repite como mantra. Hace falta un gran acuerdo nacional, es lo que se repite en foro tras foro. Hace falta un Pacto como el de la Moncloa, es lo que se propone en reunión tras reunión.
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nexos - un futuro para méxico
Contra lo que sugieren todos los días los medios, el número promedio de homicidios en México no ha hecho sino descender desde los años noventa. Está en el orden de los 11 por cada 100 mil habitantes, el doble que en Estados Unidos y el triple que en Suiza, pero la tercera parte que en Colombia, la cuarta parte que en Brasil, la quinta parte que en Guatemala. Los sistemas de justicia de los estados...
October 2009
6 posts
un espacio, una letra, una coma
Nuestra existencia es inherentemente banal y breve. Hoy en día compartimos este delicado planeta con 6 billones de personas más. Si tenemos un poco de suerte y morimos en la tercera edad, probablemente estaremos compartiendo la existencia con 8 o 9 billones de personas más.
Sería increíblemente arrogante creer que esta vida nos pertenece. No nos queda más opción que aceptar que sólo somos un...
el méxico fronterizo
El México fronterizo, tan satisfecho de ser lo más próspero del país, el norte industrial, sin indios, sin la miseria extrema de Chiapas u Oaxaca, el México clasemediero satisfecho de sí mismo frente a la mano tendida del sur mendicante. El México esforzado y orgulloso de serlo frente a la gran ciudad y capital devoradora, gorda, ojerosa y pintada, el gorila urbano del D.F. aplastando con sus...
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“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid...”
– V for Venetta
Synthetic Experience →
For all the talk about the environment these days, I don’t think human beings have ever been more distanced from nature. And much as I hate to say it, I don’t think this trend is going to reverse itself. It just seems inevitable that people are going to continue to live more and more through technology. I think the gene-based, corporeal life we are familiar with is just the incipient stage of an...
Think about life - Sweet Sixteen
September 2009
8 posts
Karen O
Communique from an Absent Future →
Like the society to which it has played the faithful servant, the university is bankrupt. This bankruptcy is not only financial. It is the index of a more fundamental insolvency, one both political and economic, which has been a long time in the making. No one knows what the university is for anymore. We feel this intuitively. Gone is the old project of creating a cultured and educated...
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Vivamos Nosotros →
….¿Cuándo podremos querer a México por algo que hizo (hicimos) su gente hace cinco años, 10 años, 20 años? ¿Podemos querer a nuestro país así como está ahora? ¿No sería más sano comenzar a despreciarlo para poder cambiarlo? ¿Gritar Viva México, Viva la Independencia no es lo mismo a gritar Viva nuestra Jodidencia?…
Protest the G20 in Pittsburgh Sept. 24-25
redguard:
A CALL FOR A GLOBAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE G20 SUMMIT IN PITTSBURGH, PA., U.S., SEPTEMBER 24 AND 25, 2009
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE – BUT WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT! BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE JOBS & SOCIAL NEEDS—NOT WAR AND GREED
The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25, 2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as well...
“Oh, Kay. Greg Mankiw looks at a graph showing that children of high-income...”
– Heredity, environment, justice, Krugman
August 2009
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“Nature was shewn to us as “red in tooth and claw”: if the guiding...”
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“Why appeal to the mob when ninetyfive per cent of them do not understand...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse. Allowing...”
– 1995 Supreme Court ruling McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission
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“We are a lost generation, desperately clinging to anything that feels real, but...”
“a world where becoming self-sufficient is a euphemism for having found a boss.”
3.3%
Según el reporte del Foro Económico de Davos, diversos “estudios muestran que la probabilidad de que en México un delincuente sea detenido y consignado ante un juez es del 3.3%”.
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“In other words, the living, vital truth of social and economic well-being will...”
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“No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not...”
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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers, or backgammon, a playing with...”
July 2009
7 posts
Watchdo the math
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el discurso
“I am not sanguine enough to hope that my readers will be as numerous as those...”
“Los fuertes — los chingones sin escrupulos, duros e inexorables — se...”
“Porque todo lo que es el mexicano actual, como se ha visto, puede reducirse a...”
