domingo, 7 de diciembre de 2025
LOS QUE NO NOS VACUNAMOS NO ANDAMOS POR ALLÍ CON METALES PEGADOS AL CUERPO
domingo, 30 de noviembre de 2025
Nuevos aportes sobre Benedicto XVI: la modernidad y el Concilio Vaticano II - Conferencia en la UFM
https://newmedia.ufm.edu/video/nuevos-aportes-sobre-benedicto-xvi-la-modernidad-y-el-concilio-vaticano-ii-gabriel-zanotti/
domingo, 23 de noviembre de 2025
GRACIAS TRUMP POR FACILITAR LAS COSAS.....
Quienes no padecemos del "Trump Derangement Syndrome" siempre hemos tratado de entender el fenómeno político de Trump desde una perspectiva más distante, más desapasionada, enmarcándolo en una típica reacción contra el autoritarismo de los demócratas, en una mezcla muy complicada entre el nacionalismo norteamericano y pinceladas libertarias. Allí mismo, en USA, los libertarios que no tienen nada que ver con el famatismo de los MAGA la tienen muy difícil. Han apoyado tal o cual medida, han criticado otras y han tratado de mantener la distancia de los MAGA al mismo tiempo que la distancia de los fanáticos demócratas, que serían capaces de convertir a los Estados Unidos en Cuba, ipso facto, si pudieran.
Pero últimamente Trump se ha encargado de convertir esa dificultad en una casi imposibilidad. Ha llamado a una periodista "piggy" y ha dicho que quisiera colgar a ciertos congresistas demócratas. Sí, claro que no era en serio, pero tampoco era un Reagan´s joke.
No sigamos.
Detengámonos allí.
Igual que aquí, muchos dirán: ya está el lunático filósofo preocupado por las formas. La política es así: es lo que hay; son ellos o nosotros, etc.
Claro que hay fenómenos de acción y reacción, pero el efecto bumerang de las reacciones sólo produce otras reacciones del lado contrario y así sucesivamente.
Por un lado, puede ser divertida la desfachatez y soltura de ciertos políticos de derecha, ajenos a las formas de los especialistas en imagen, atrayendo a un electorado harto de la hipocresía de los políticos tradicionales, habitualmente insípidos, indolentes e ineficaces en lograr resultados concretos. Pero la decadencia cultural actual no permite distinguir entre una cosa y otra: entender la reacción, por un lado, y perder la distancia crítica, por el otro. Lo primero no debe conducir a lo segundo. No solo desde el punto de vista deontológico, sino también desde el consecuencialista.
Deontológico, porque las formas SON contenidos. La reacción contra la izquierda debe ser una reacción moral, en la que el trato a los demás forma parte de la ética libertaria, que luego se trasluce en una concepción del poder. Un líder con autoridad moral no avanza más no porque no pueda, sino porque no debe. Los hubo en su momento. Adenauer, De Gasperi, Rueff, Einaudi, Erhard, etc. Reagan incluso. Que no surjan personalidades parecidas y/o que no logren ahora ningún apoyo es síntoma de una decadencia moral generalizada.
Consecuencialista, porque esas actitudes sólo dan argumentos a la izquierda y sólo aumentan la polarización, que va socavando lentamente los "constitutional essentials" de los que hablaba Rawls, y que son la base para la estabilidad política y jurídica, a largo plazo, de las sociedades libres.
Que el mundo sea ahora más difícil que antes no es un argumento para conformarse con la decadencia.
Tal vez sea al revés.
domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2025
Urgente Aclaración por la Unidad de la Iglesia: Teología y Sensibilidad Eclesial en Conflicto POR EL PADRE SANTIAGO MARTIN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur2_lgAtYwA
domingo, 9 de noviembre de 2025
MILEI AND MAMDANI: A POLARIZED WORLD
Last week, my brilliant former student and close friend, Juan Luis Iramain, published a highly insightful article, "The New Politics" (https://infomedia.consulting/comms/la-nueva-politica.php), in which he explained remarkable similarities between two figures whose ideologies could not be more different: Milei and Mamdani. These similarities pertain to their modes of political conduct. One might be tempted to say "different content, but similar modes," yet, considering that the medium is the message, there are also overlapping contents, despite the divergent cited authors and campaign proposals. It is not our intention here to summarize Juan Luis’s article; the reader may consult it without difficulty. It suffices to underscore the obvious: their confrontational approaches, defiant style, ostensible spontaneity, emotional appeals, and radicalism. All are strikingly alike. And voters become fascinated.
But
why?
We
have long asserted that the globalization anticipated after the fall of the
Berlin Wall was not the free international market that many, including me,
ingenuously envisioned at the time. It was, and continues to be, an interventionist
economy, as Mises described in Part VI of his treatise, Human Action,
published in 1949, not 1991, when a tentative hope emerged after World War II.
Moreover, and most troublingly, the United Nations radicalized in two respects:
an obsessive planning of the entire world and, secondly, the content of such
planning, focused on what I call the third phase of Marxism: the exploitive
white heteropatriarchal capitalist versus newly recognized oppressed
collectives—African Americans, indigenous peoples, women, sexual minorities.
The first aspect epitomizes Hayek’s grim prophecy in The Road to Serfdom
and represents the peak of central planning, opposed vigorously throughout
their lives by Mises and Hayek, especially the latter, who denounced central
planning as the radical ignorance of complex social phenomena (The Theory of
Complex Phenomena, 1964)—the culmination of a lifelong academic project
denouncing the abuse of reason, initiated even before WWII with the full
awareness that it sought to save Western civilization from destruction, a
destruction perhaps unfolding even now.
Against
this liberticidal central planning, designated the United Nations, there have
been and continue to be two types of reactions. The first, more common,
encompasses diverse nationalisms, religious or otherwise, where national
sovereignties appear as the only bulwark against the planning beast whose
tentacles reach into the minutest facets of daily life worldwide. The second is
the libertarian reaction, which I consider correct, privileging the
preservation of individual freedoms against this planning. This second option is crucial
but...
If
these reactions are somewhat unclear in academia, what can one expect in
politics, where both reactions interact more intensely? Ultimately, these are
reactions. Even those of us who have studied libertarian ideas for years were caught
off guard by the post-1991 quasi-Soviet radicalization of planning. The bipolar
world before 1991 was simpler and admitted moderate leaders like Reagan,
beneath whom radical positions lurked mostly in academic corridors. Since 1991,
however unnoticed, the era of moderates ended. New movements arose, which,
according to Karina Mariani, represented wars lost while we slept (https://www.amazon.es/Las-guerras-perdiste-mientras-dorm%C3%ADas/dp/B0DW1GZC14).
The woke culture, coercive impositions (in education and health) of the
LGBT agenda by governments, postmodern culturalism, immigration contrary
to the rule of law, the purported right to information and alleged hate crimes,
radical environmentalism, Mother Earth ideology, and finally the Soviet-like
paroxysm of the pandemic, formed the breeding ground for reactive political
movements, which exclude moderates and where nationalists and libertarians
coexist in uneasy, sometimes fractious, alliances.
Amid
this, political actors and voters tend to react rather than act. Poor Mises: never
envisioned this world of human reaction, but it is our reality. Many who
voted for Trump did so against Biden; many who voted for Milei did so against
Massa; many who voted for Mamdani did so against Trump, with a level of
emotionalism fitting the verbose, confrontational, dichotomous—and evidently
inconsistent—style of these politicians. In them coexist religious concerns,
libertarian elements, a free economy, external debt, and nationalist nostalgia,
all bundled together. Their campaign chief is the same: the radical left,
nourished by the UN (which takes local forms in each country), pushing matters
to a point of no return (as has always been the case) that decades ago triggered
civil wars and military coups but now, thankfully, translates into desperate
voters, factional democracies, and caudillo-like leaders. What is the option?
The
future is unpredictable for me. It is also impossible for me to know what a
moderate libertarian leader would do in this jungle of survival. The current
Churchills, less sophisticated, set aside Chamberlains, and the present-day
Hitlers and Stalins are invisible, omnipresent, and borderless.
Meanwhile,
the Mileis and Mamdanis of the world multiply, and the rest remain silent,
confused before a historical panorama that surpasses our best theories. Except
one: central planning is not only a failure; it is the death of Western
civilization.
