Reflections

Regarding the interruption of the national development process

Development processes can be interrupted and carry back the economic system to previous stages of lesser complexity and productivity in the employment of factors. Argentina is a notable case of recurring interruptions. One example is the coup d’état of March 24^th, 1976, whose neoliberal strategy demolished the industrial ability and the installed and emergent networks in diverse sectors of the economy, including cutting edge sectors such as electronics and the production of computerized capital goods.

Aldo Ferrer

 

Regarding simulated democracies

Our current political regimes pretend to believe that our systems are democratic. In fact, they are electoral mechanisms dominated by powerful elites.

Luciano Canfora

 

Regarding the brain and the Milky Way

The brain, of course, is the crown jewel of our nervous system. It has 85 billion neural cells and 150 trillion synapses. These are its electrical connections, its possibilities. This figure is nearly a thousand times as great as the number of stars in the Milky Way.

Bob Berman, Discover Magazine July-August 2014