Capitalismo real vs socialismo ideal

Axel Kaiser defendiendo a la Libertad en el debate Capitalismo real vs socialismo ideal.

¿Socialistas los escandinavos?

¿Socialistas los escandinavos? Qué mejor que escuchar al Primer Ministro de Dinamarca sobre el tema.

Las reformas en Nueva Zelanda

¿Nazi, yo?

Reforma económica de Nueva Zelanda

Interesante video sobre cómo los “kiwis” refundaron su País y salieron de la crisis económica en la que se encontraban hace 30 años.

Cinco minutos de Escohotado

Economía y Fútbol

Gustavo Lazzari dá una conferencia donde explica Economía usando analogías futboleras.

El valor Verdad

Un País sin valores, si funciona, lo hace a los tumbos. Decir la verdad es uno de esos valores, que no abundan... Este video es de Hora Clave, de Mariano Grondona, de Julio del 2008. Roberto Cachanosky es uno de los pocos que si dijeron -y dice- la verdad durante los años del populismo peronista, versión kirchnerista. Cachanosky explica los problemas de la economía de ese momento, incluido el despilfarro que hizo el gobierno en el tema energético. Es bueno verlo para entender el actual problema de TARIFAS.

Además, siempre es bueno ejercer la MEMORIA.

Catherine Russell

Respuesta a Tinelli

Desde Jujuy Rosario Agostini responde a Tinelli.

Sobre qué es ser educado

My name is Noam Chomsky, I'm a retired professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I've been for 65 years. I think I can do no better about answering the question of what it means to be truly educated than to go back to some of the classic views on the subject. For example the views expressed by the founder of the modern higher education system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, leading humanist, a figure of the enlightenment who wrote extensively on education and human development and argued, I think, kind of very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively independently without external controls. To move to a modern counterpart, a leading physicist who talked right here [at MIT], used to tell his classes it's not important what we cover in the class, it's important what you discover. To be truly educated from this point of view means to be in a position to inquire and to create on the basis of the resources available to you which you've come to appreciate and comprehend. To know where to look, to know how to formulate serious questions, to question a standard doctrine if that's appropriate, to find your own way, to shape the questions that are worth pursuing, and to develop the path to pursue them. That means knowing, understanding many things but also, much more important than what you have stored in your mind, to know where to look, how to look, how to question, how to challenge, how to proceed independently, to deal with the challenges that the world presents to you and that you develop in the course of your self education and inquiry and investigations, in cooperation and solidarity with others. That's what an educational system should cultivate from kindergarten to graduate school, and in the best cases sometimes does, and that leads to people who are, at least by my standards, well educated.

También Steven Pinker opina sobre el mismo tema.

“It seems to me that educated people should know something about the 13-billion-year prehistory of our species and the basic laws governing the physical and living world, including our bodies and brains. They should grasp the timeline of human history from the dawn of agriculture to the present. They should be exposed to the diversity of human cultures, and the major systems of belief and value with which they have made sense of their lives. They should know about the formative events in human history, including the blunders we can hope not to repeat. They should understand the principles behind democratic governance and the rule of law. They should know how to appreciate works of fiction and art as sources of aesthetic pleasure and as impetuses to reflect on the human condition. 

On top of this knowledge, a liberal education should make certain habits of rationality second nature. Educated people should be able to express complex ideas in clear writing and speech. They should appreciate that objective knowledge is a precious commodity, and know how to distinguish vetted fact from superstition, rumor, and unexamined conventional wisdom. They should know how to reason logically and statistically, avoiding the fallacies and biases to which the untutored human mind is vulnerable. They should think causally rather than magically and know what it takes to distinguish causation from correlation and coincidence. 
They should be acutely aware of human fallibility, most notably their own, and appreciate that people who disagree with them are not stupid or evil. 
Accordingly, they should appreciate the value of trying to change minds by persuasion rather than intimidation or demagoguery.”

Entendiendo el Arte

Understanding art: In the mood for love.

Quiero al gobierno fuera de la Economía

If it be your will, Leonard Cohen

Del mismo color

Here at NASA we all pee the same color.

De la película Hidden figures, donde se cuenta la historia de mujeres negras y de su extraordinario aporte a la carrera espacial durante los ‘60. Eso, en medio del racismo y de la guerra fria.

Most of the time

Most of the time
I'm clear focused all around
Most of the time
I can keep both feet on the ground
I can follow the path
I can read the signs
Stay right with it
When the road unwinds
I can handle whatever
I stumble upon
I don't even notice
She's gone
Most of the timeMost of the time
It's well understood
Most of the time
I wouldn't change it if I could
I can't make it all match up
I can hold my own
I can deal with the situation
Right down to the bone
I can survive,
And I can endure
And I don't even think
About her
Most of the timeMost of the time
My head is on straight
Most of the time
I'm strong enough not to hate
I don't build up illusion
'till it makes me sick
I ain't afraid of confusion
No matter how thick
I can smile in the face
Of mankind
Don't even remember
What her lips felt like on mine
Most of the timeMost of the time
She ain't even in my mind
I wouldn't know her if I saw her
She's that far behind
Most of the time
I can't even be sure
If she was ever with me
Or if I was ever with herMost of the time
I'm halfway content
Most of the time
I know exactly where it all went
I don't cheat on myself
I don't run and hide
Hide from the feelings
That are buried inside
I don't compromise
And I don't pretend
I don't even care
If I ever see her again

Lluvia, de Charly García

Bettye LaVette canta Pink Floyd

Canta Wish you were here como sólo ella puede hacerlo...

In the tower of song

Bachelet: el legado