Reflections

Regarding narcissistic gratification of Homo Ludens

Han says that the Phono sapiens, a man bound in body and soul to his smartphone, stops “acting” before the world and abandons the state of Homo Faber to become a Homo Ludens, which is something like a man who, as happens in a game, is limited to following rules established by another to fulfill other people’s goals. And in exchange for what? Of narcissistic gratification. 

Nicholas Mavrakis

Regarding capital flight

The channels of tax evasion and elusion with the greatest impact on the level of capital flight seem to be those linked to the export of commodities, “export smuggling”, fraud in the declaration about the composition of bulk exports (cereal and mining), the under-invoicing of exports, and the “triangulation” of operations through tax havens,  overvaluation of imports, and manipulation of “transfer pricing” (intra-group), among others.

CEFID-AR (Fuga de capitales III, Jorge Gaggero, Magdalena Rua y Alejandro Gaggero 2013

Regarding memory and forgetfulness

Therefore, far from composing a data warehouse, memory is the ability to forget. That is, the possibility of leaving behind painful situations that hurt our innermost being, while privileging others more related to “the ethical and aesthetic demands of the personality” (…) Living crushed by a memory is the closest thing to hell.

Sergio Zabalza