The process of concentrating wealth and decision-making power not only ruthlessly punishes the peoples of the countries of the southern hemisphere but also the popular sectors of the central countries. This forces us to think about who leads and benefits from the concentrating process. The answer points to a powerful minority of people who live in outrageous opulence. They are the owners of capital and the largest corporations, guided by an alienated greed for unlimited accumulation. They do not care about the damage they cause, the injustices and inequalities they generate in every corner of the world. In this march, …
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Flipping perspective to enable a better course and way of functioning
The process of concentrating wealth and decisions has disastrous social and environmental consequences. An important factor in dismantling it is to challenge the perspective imposed by those who dominate. This strengthens the possibility of conceiving and establishing new policies in favor of humanity and the care of the planet. The path imposed by the concentrating process leads to destructive lock-ins, paths of no return that punish humanity and destructively affect the planet. It is imperative to understand the causes and consequences of this alienated march; in particular, to unmask the interests and other motivations camouflaged in the perspective imposed by …
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Middle East: Fierce outbreak of the “as if”
Cruel game in the Middle East: Everyone lies and fights with each other, but each and every one kicks, or worse, destroys, those below. ___________________________________________________________________ For those who have a keen eyesight, it is not uncommon to observe that when someone lies, he must continue to lie in order to cover up the original fraud. This creates a whole structure of fiction. Lie upon lie: sooner or later the house of cards crumbles and it does so with a bang. And sometimes violently. When looking at the political map of the Middle East, one can see a number of countries …
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Judges who do not respect the separation of powers
The impact of the judiciary on the economy. The economy as a whole needs regulatory elasticity to adapt to external and internal changes. The ruling classes have created a legal framework, a sort of normative corset, which allows them to condition the functioning of the economic system. It is based on orthodox economic theory, which tends to restrict the action of governments and impose an orientation favorable to the interests of the dominant sectors. This situation leads to recurrent crises because, as Keynes noted at the end of the third chapter of the General Theory, “it is possible that orthodox …
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Initiatives
Laudate Deum, on the climate crisis https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html Pope Francisco Ecological inputs for agricultural production https://www.pagina12.com.ar/580922-especialistas-de-santa-fe-desarrollan-insumos-ecologicos-par Vinicius de Moraes “La Fusa” con Maria Creuza y Toquinho
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Reflections
About the potter and the great-great-grandparents of the upper classes He is very much mistaken who believes that the potter’s workmanship, even if it is not of fine workmanship, is incompatible with the delicacy and taste of manners that distinguish the upper classes of today, already forgotten or from birth ignorant of the brutality of their great-great-grandparents and the bestiality of their great-great-grandparents. José Saramago About some opposition An opposition that is intellectually null, politically sterile, and humanly miserable. Fabián Restivo About the good and the bad In societies accustomed to consuming information in the form of pills and in …
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