Reclaiming dialogue and democratic debate as resources, even revolutionary. Kolakowski law, as other calls like the one born as critical thinking
Leszek Kolakowski was a Polish philosopher who died six years ago, in the summer of 2009. He finished his days at Oxford, after his slip Marxist thought, before the fall of the Soviet Bloc, to the swamps of liberalism. His treatises on the history of philosophy and Marxism, and the recovery of its legacy in today's Poland, have left their mark on some of the contemporary intelligentsia, including the title of this article, the law of the infinite cornucopia.
A law that has nothing to do with the claims of the Macondo Aureliano Buendia Garcia Marquez, or dietary cronopios to which we invited Julio Cortazar. Even with some aspects of the Gag Law, not for its severity, they serve to playful delight in the tedious summer evenings, when the sun warns his authority. The Law of the cornucopia is a serious thing.
The cornucopia is, in the words of those who do not master the language, the cornucopia. Zeus broke with one of its rays a horn of the goat that had nursed a child, Amalthea. As compensation, he was awarded the attribute that anyone who possessed that horn being awarded as desired.
Kolakowski made a rhetorical turn to the mythological horn and made the Act. The truth is that I found a few weeks ago in one of the last books of John Le Carré, those who leave for these summer dates. The definition, the exact copy by, said: "In essence, the law states that there is an infinite number of explanations for any event. Unlimited. "
As like language also dominated the philosophy, I have not come to understand the link between legend and law horn Kolakowski, who, after all, has no scientific basis. Philosophers are found in bars, libraries, gyms and TV debates. Never in a laboratory. But it applies as if it had an academic grounds.
I sense the cornucopia, however, that post-modernist, at this point in the film, dialectics no longer makes sense line. And they are attached to those who exercise power law to the detriment of contrast, guided by slogans as if humanity were a flock of wild sheep in the Pyrenees, on the brink of extinction, waiting whistle shepherd to move their hind legs and blinded to the fold.
Apparently, and he is listening to those postmodern, and there is no cause and effect, or content or form or essence and phenomenon. Fernandez Diaz, the Spanish Interior Minister, that his every appearance raises the question of whether it is a mariafanía or levitation Goat Legion (well, today has given me Caprinae), is an example. His slogan to revile the current coach of Bayern Munich football fan for supporting the Catalan sovereignty process has broken the sound barrier. By fetched. But enter Kolakowski logic that ideas, even Martian (or in the case of Marian Fernandez Diaz) can be argued.
The origin of the dialectic in ancient Greece was to source dialogue. And I do not want to make a metaphor modern Greece, it would be simple. Prior to our era Greeks conceived the dialectic as a form of conversation, controversy. Marx and Engels believed in evolution, a kind of society, marriage, between events, things and ideas.
If the infinite cornucopia is our destiny, like the end of history that we predicted the visionary former Fukuyama, only we would follow gurus, journalists interested, reserved funds to pay lobbyists or any sign, corrupt politicians, who are those with more than defend, and leaders twiteros maximum 140 letters.
And three-year periods ago, I do not get the expression used by economists state, the illustrious Javier Tusell appropriated Cornucopia law to bleach process Lizarra-Garazi and, incidentally, spank Aznar and Ibarretxe. At first for allowing the management of the process, the second by direct, considering that after it left the omnipresent nationalist who incidentally, his newspaper "El Pais" daily was apaleaba.
These three five days have passed and these pages of the same newspaper, in power after his bankruptcy administration and banking tips American funds (trend continues until our house with Euskaltel as a paradigm), continue to validate the cornucopia. This time the target was the fall of the regime, at least in form, in Navarre.
And because of the raid on the Macondo of García Márquez I will take leave to quote a second time. In the years of war in Colombia, that also seemed infinite, one of the players asked about the difference between liberals and conservatives. Not witty response was less successful: "A conservative is going to Mass on Sunday at 5 pm, and a liberal is going to Mass at 8 pm that same Sunday." Find the difference, if any, it is a matter of split seconds.
With "El Pais" and the author of the latest letters about the change in Nafarroa happens the same. You do not know if you're reading the newspaper Cebrian, to "The Reason" Marhuenda or "ABC" spurred by Bergaretxe and cya Vocento. In a blind tasting, contests as wine, cheese or marmitako, would have serious difficulty differentiating few other items. Moreover, I would not bet on myself. The manchetas mistaken.
José Luis Barber, the cornucopio of "El País", despite being retired, is back on track. In 2011 he left one of his most impressive deli when, ignoring common sense and objective data released ETA in its statement of final cessation of its armed activity, he fell to a shared pool then only by conspiracy theorists, consumers of hallucinogens and some other affected by mariafonías. This was a trap. He had not, he said, intended to disarmament.
This time the story has slipped encapitulada in three installments to be exact. A Chinese story moved from Beijing to Cintruénigo. In Nafarroa democracy it has nearly perfect, until it has reached the nationalist left and has screwed up everything. How? Reasons of State: "The people of Navarre is a tense, tamed and cowed society." Pyrenean mountain sheep into the fold makes quinquenniums incited by Jon Idigoras and now reduced to block Asier Arraiz.
The force of the Law of the infinite cornucopia, to make valid all interpretations, however absurd they may be, meaningless leaves the value of dialectics and, above all, dialogue. If all the reasons have deep support, why dialogue? If there is only black and white why nature strives to show tones, colors and many shades?
The danger of the disappearance of dialogue, the dialectic of the dispute, reaches us fully, because it involves the imposition victory. Imposing its way through the threat, in general, is the modus vivendi which we have suffered since we can remember, since our ancestors buried in a ditch by "controversial" or what was then the same, by "criminals".
Reclaiming dialogue and democratic debate as resources, even revolutionary. Kolakowski law, as other similar calls, born as criticism of the single thought. And they did not open the fan, but, on the contrary, we tripping over themselves to one single thought, but as usual, on behalf of a supposedly democratic value, the futility of values.