The brave and climbed to a fresh battlefield ephemeral. On trestles, and reciters of the tribunes were exchanged rhymes and rants, complaints and compliments, prayers and hymns, each in its own way, defined the country.
Lying on the lawn of the cold wet summer evening, detained on the ground by the joint efforts of the gravity of any malicious grass, he heard a passing Oranges are green Claude Gauvreau: "Censorship is the arrogant barbarism." The brave
immediately exclaimed: "Barbarians arrogant! Wafer that would make a good blog name! "
Almost a year later, here it is. And denounced the censorship becomes that of the mind, because we live in an era where ideas are banned.
This lack of resistance gives free rein to the barbarians of all kinds are gaining confidence to become arrogant.
The reasons for this are many arrogant barbarism. However, at the outset, I said a very important: the economy, this religion to fashion that attempts to explain human existence by the same laws as trade bubble gum, which transforms links between individuals in market relations and, on behalf of a flawed rationale, a clean slate values, leaving only the utility or profitability. This fundamentalist clerics and their many parishioners, who mostly follow without even understanding nor their ideas nor their motivation, occupy much space in our universe. Too. I have them in the eye ...
Small readings
Harry G. Frankfurt It Bullshit, Princeton University Press, 2005. ( The art of bullshitting , 10/18, 2006.)
Normand Baillargeon Small intellectual self-defense classes, Lux, 2005.
The French title of the first book is a misnomer, because there is more to say stupid things in the fact bullshiter . There is also and above all, believe it! Early Reading and illuminating an era of public opinion. As for the second book, it should be mandatory for any student who finishes high school. This introduction to critical thinking processes, among other things, fallacies and other subterfuges, such as statistical manipulation and pseudoscience, used to win the support of the average citizen. An ode to the rigor ...
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