Reflections

About Pusillanimous Governments

The dictionary explains about pusillanimity. “Showing little spirit and lack of courage to take action, face dangers or difficulties, or endure misfortunes.” As a lesson from this sad experience, we need to take note of a very precise fact: the pusillanimous position of a government does nothing more than pave the way for the arrival of a monster to power.

Sergio Zabalza

About the facts and their circumstances

For dictionaries, the circumstance does not seem to exist, although, obligatorily required to explain what it consists of, they call it the state or particularity that accompanies a fact, which advises us not to separate the facts from their circumstances and not to judge some without weighing others.

José Saramago

About an “Infomaton”

Byung Chul Han calls it an “infomaton,” a machine that processes information: they save us work and seduce us into a cyberspace of “freedom,” but they are efficient informants who monitor and control. There we ploughed the terra-digitalis –Facebook, Google, Twitter– of idolized techno-feudal lords. The car of the future will move us in a multimedia capsule, throwing us into the depths of the placid digital terrain, into a transparent panopticon to buy on Amazon and post acts of life, systematized and dissolved in data. The intimacy ceded to Big Data is a commodity more valuable than oil.

Julian Varsavsky