En his magnificent work The raging mass: how identity politics raised the world to care, Douglas Murray attributed to the Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue the idea of ”Syndrome de San Jorge jubilado”.
Talking about the fanaticism and virulence with which the izquierda woke up Murray, defined in recent days by certain political causes, explains what this syndrome consists of.
“After slaying a dragon, a brave warrior sets out to travel the world in search of battles that will further his glory. More dragons are needed. Finally, eager to chase dragons more often than not, he spends the day throwing mandobels into the air, believing them to contain a monster.”
Murray points out that our public life today is full of people who are eager to go to the barricades when the revolution is over, and he ironizes the necessity for these revolutionaries of the rejected hall to exaggerate the problems in order to present themselves as virtuosic things in all the lights of desfasada.
In Spain, there are many famous figures who suffer from the San Jorge syndrome and who persist in writing pre-existing battles to show the world that (if the story is celebrated on this occasion) they are also proud of the dragon.
Ahí está el scritor David Uclesthe winner of the Nadal prize who refused to participate in one of the events surrounding the civil war held in Seville Arturo Pérez-Reverte and a journalist Jesus Vigorrabecause he was not willing to share the cartel with the political derechas as Jose Maria Aznar AND Iván Espinosa de los Monteros.
David Uclés talks about Republican women and women of the Franco regime.
It gripped the air and freed itself from the earth in concrete civil war, punishing heroism with costly trade fines, displaying sectarianism and meaningless civil compromise.
It seems that Uclés, born in 1990, like many other reckless young people, undoubtedly did not take much of the frustration of life in a pluralistic democracy, but this, among other things, created the basis for peaceful celebrations of the day over the civil war with diverse opinions.
Another thing is that where, supported by the huida de Uclés, the legion of San Jorges jubilados that narrows our public debate acaben provokes, through amenazas and coacciones, its abolition.
Curiously, before his expansion, Uclés was vocal in various statements (in a supposedly conciliatory and equanimous act) regarding the need to reach a broad consensus on what the civil war was.
Basically, for Uclés, the consensus seems to be that the right takes over the logic and interpretation that the izquierda makes of history and holy reasons. A pre-formed and monolithic consensus: the denial of public debate and the political opponent’s desire to participate on an equal footing.
In short, a denial of the days of Seville.
In any case, Uclés does not seem to keep things too clear, since among his literary references he usually cites an Andalusian journalist and writer Manuel Chaves Nogaleswhich abhorred the sectarianism of the trenches of the two Spaniards, and abhorred the third Spain, liberal and democratic, which would never again emerge.
Image of the Electoral College during the 1978 constitutional referendum in Castile and León.
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Spain that acceded to Chaves Nogales would be governed by the 1978 transition and constitution; a friend enters Suarez y Carrillo; compromise of Fraga, Herrero de Miñon, Peces-Barba, Miquel Roca, Gabriel Cisneros, Pérez-Llorca y Sole Turaeveryone who is a welcome Spanish democrat should know how to quote from the corridor and without reservation; la españa del ambrazo pintado por Genoves and a civilized alternation begins Gonzalez y Aznar.
Yes, Aznar, above all.
Chaves Nogales never knows what Uclés has because its author Blood and fire I have always rejected the Cerrilian Manicism that hastened the war.
Uclés, in return, do not hesitate to shake with commercial purposes. Opposite of Chaves Nogales.
Unfortunately, I was wondering how you said it recently Villa Rodolfo Martin (another senior figure of Transición), now some would prefer to be the netos of the civil war we lost to the hijos of Transición who loved us all.
We prevent another manifestation of the name “cancellation culture”, that is, the cancellation of what is different and the denial of pluralism.
Although he may have achieved his commercial goals through controversy, he has shown that he does not stand on the intellectual and moral high ground of a country that requires the goal of people who bear the responsibility of encouraging a rich and respectful public conversation.
*** Nacho Martín Blanco is a member of the People’s Party in Congress.
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