Reflections

About generating respect or instilling fear

A sense of anguish invaded the bodies to the point of generating that feeling of isolation, desolation, and uneasiness that Arendt masterfully describes. And this is no coincidence. They want us to be depressed, scared, and defeated. If generating respect is the direct consequence of a good ruler, instilling fear is the maneuver of the tyrant.

Sergio Zabalza

About an obsolete diagnosis

In 1995, 45 per cent of the world’s gross domestic product was in the so-called G7 countries, i.e. the most industrialized economies. At that time, the countries that today make up the BRICS barely reached 17% of that gross world product. In the year 2023, the total percentage of the world’s gross product that is in the BRICS countries is 32% and that of the G7 is 30%. There was a very noticeable redistribution of power of influence on the international stage.

Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

On the psychological aspect of the politician

Could it be that a subject who grew up alone, mistreated, in the most absolute aridity, intends to reproduce in the external world the aridity and poverty of his emotional world? Politics is multicausal and complex, but it is incomplete when it does not incorporate, at least minimally, the psychological aspects of its protagonists…

Gastón Garrida