“Evil is not envejecer, evil is not envejecer.” Famous aphorism Oscar Wilde it is quoted by Rosa Montero in a recently titled article I want to confess.
As Pepe Isbert in his inherent interpretation of the mayor of the city Welcome, Mr. MarshallIn fact, Rosa Montero felt she owed her readers a confession and would offer that confession in her article.
Yes, no more and no less, who grew up seventy-five years, and who, when I consider it, if you follow you feel young. Ah yes to Wilde’s aphorism.
“No soy,” he declares. “I don’t know. I don’t know exactly what I have inside, but I’m young from now on. There’s no way I can stay seven or five years. It’s ridiculous. It’s obscene. It’s a dirty joke.”
Henceforth, with the idealistic voluntarism very typical of the youth of his time, Montero declares himself “transtemporal,” an ideological term that, as Gloria Swanson periodism, is invented so that he does not have to accept, with that form of wisdom that only the classics teach, the inexorable pace of time.
“In general, the case is that I am trans. ¡Reclamo el reconocimiento de la transtemporalidad! ¡Librémonos de la repressora conventionalidad de los calendars y de los años nuevos! ¡Autodeterminación temporal, ya!”.
Writer Elvira Lindo.
The call sounds a bit like a parody of those who ennarbolaban young Parisians in May 68.
Same day and same average, Elvíra Lindováa decade younger than the previous one, but just as tall, our condescension, with an honest no less conmovedora, with another priceless confession: that he does not understand anything that he does.
In the article titled Emergency corridor in reference to the American writer’s tetralogy Henry RothElvira Lindo gives us our obedience, as does our colleague Montero, with the following confidence.
“The feeling, as in the biography of the man Roth, is that immediately in this act of our life the agreed principles have been scorned and we are our misguided people who believe that history has proceeded along the irreversible path of progressivism, therefore our language does not allow us to connect with the young person (not all) who, by not knowing the history we have written here, shows himself to be the rebellious plan of his father. who in the end and in the end resist the old and conventional the status quo“.
Like Elvira, like Rosa, just as sad as I write this, We belong to a time that was profoundly enlightened and revolutionary.
For a time I was burdened without embargo by the myths that proved to plague my thoughts, fueled by the worst and deadliest of all: Progress, a god on whose altars thousands of the dead were sacrificed.
Her own Elvira is in her article a duel for these gods.
“It turns out that people who defend a fierce individualism are able to understand and unite their voice in a single collective cry and progress that always arises from the collective good from the demonstrations to the diary of their inability to understand.”
“By the strange paradox of those old men who uncritically profess a belief in the goodness of past times, they are the same men who cry out all their lives against the order they now say will continue.”
Another myth, equally deadly, even with its most individual effects, which had to be adored beginning in previous years, was the myth of youth, which was not only the exclusive (and exclusive) paradigm of Beauty, but also of Truth.
We ask Rosa Montero again.
“I never thought that I could attach myself to such a mayor. When I was twenty years old, I looked with a rattling eye at people over sixty and widened, not because they were visible, or so it seemed to me, until I thought: miracles, they hold more than sixty and come in and go upstairs so happy, and go to the cinema, and when they have chiring paella’
We record as we do Planet de los simioswhich work without comparison Franklin J. Schaffner highly representative of the spirit of its time, one line of argument was the desire for knowledge and transformation of young people in the face of the rebellious immobility of old men, represented by reactionary Dr. Zaius.
“No permission,” the cynic told her Charlton Heston to young Cornelius “who must wave bands of malcontents.”
The problem is when it is produced the disaffected is turned into a mere subterfuge to settle into the most accommodating conformismsit is that we refuse to understand the present unfolding before our eyes.
It is a strange paradox that these old men who uncritically subscribe to Manriqueño’s belief in the goodness of past times are the same people who have cried all their lives against the order they now say must continue.
Capitalism has always been saved for us. Los Estados Unidos, Estuviera Reagan, Bush I or Bush IIimperialist power had to be fought against, and liberal democracy was strictly neoliberal by definition.
Yes, even if they call so much with the same mastery with what Elvira’s husband is doing right now, before all the ideological and political challenges of the dictatorships of the izquierdas and supposedly progressive governments.
These are the skills and incompetencies that are, of course, the ones that raised today’s young people to do exactly what they did back in the day: they are rebelling against one of the values and dogmas that has been exposed as false, unjust and hypocritical.
“Many young people have understood that they want to be called together and together, and they have decided to take the bull of their future over their hearts. What they are basically asking is that they have not adopted the same moral character as them.”
In any case, how and how to report George Orwell and we remember lind, in progressivism’s dream of equality there has always been one who is more equal than the others: there are young people and young people.
On the one hand, young people are born, those who only associate ideas with those of the old izquierdists and who have inherited from them a tendency to wait and passively hope. that these problems are solved by the state.
To that end, I call it “critical thinking.”
But they are also young people who have understood that they want to be called and counted, and who, as a result, have decided to accept the bull of their future with their hearts. What the izquierda is responding to is basically that they haven’t adopted the same moral character as them.
In fact, it seems to be about individualism.
Sure, we live in the perfect time.
Are there any significant changes in the international order? We see that the superpower that boasted the mandate has proposed, in the face of advances by other actors who have tried to challenge it, to make it clear that it continues to retain it.
At the moment, apart from purely formal matters, nihil novum sub sole.
What has changed substantially in one of the pendulum swings that usually occur in history is the system of dominant values and beliefs. This false oasis of consensus, in which the slightest discrepancy became anathema and scandal, was snuffed out and quickly, legitimately, other ways of understanding the world and facing your vanities.
It is a violation of this radical sense, as well as a defense of a whole range of ideas different from those who are unable to understand, lest they become accustomed to it, These old retro-progressive karcamales.
Therefore, they should follow the same old story Oscar Wildeand think when he tells you, “Old people believe it all, average adults assume it all, young people know it all.”
*** Manuel Ruiz Zamora is a philosopher.
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