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Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision
Osama y los peligros de la perspectiva cónica (Spanish) Osama and the Dangers of Tunnel Vision Without meaning to do so, in 1690 the famous Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz demonstrated, with her life and death, that a person can be terribly censured by means of the publication of her own texts. Something similar…
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The Age of Barbaria
La Era de Barbaria (Spanish) The Age of Barbaria Annual trips back to the year 33 began in the Age of Barbaria. That year was selected because, according to surveys, Christ’s crucifixion drew the attention of most Westerners, and this social sector was important for economic reasons since trips to the past weren’t organized, much less…
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What good is literature? (II)
What good is literature? Majfud answers the gravediggers: its usefulness depends on what you consider useful. Literature doesn’t entertain — it disturbs. And that is precisely why those in power keep asking the question.
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Propaganda and the Myth of Reconquest
Propaganda and the Myth of Reconquest By Jorge Majfud A few days ago a well-known syndicated talk radio personality repeatedly asserted an opinion that is becoming common these days: illegal immigrants should be denounced as dishonest and criminal, not only because they have entered the U.S. illegally but, mainly, because their objective is the Reconquest.…
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The History of Immigration
The History of Immigration by Jorge Majfud One of the typical – correction: stereotypical – images of a Mexican has been, for more than a century, a short, drunk, trouble-maker of a man who, when not appearing with guitar in hand singing a corrido, was portrayed seated in the street taking a siesta under…
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The Culture of Hate
The Culture of Hate On the silent revolution and reaction of our time. The reasons for ultramodern chaos. On the colonization of language and how traditional authority reacts to historical progress using the anachronistic tools of repetition. Universal Pedagogy of Obedience The old pedagogical model was synthesized in the phrase “the letters enter with blood.”…
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Complicity and Resistance in a Controlled Society
Pictures: Yoana Kochneva, Assistant Designer. JU Hosted Panel Discussion on Lessons and Topics surrounding the Holocaust on Feb. 17 Jacksonville University and Remembering for the Future Community Holocaust Initiative presented “Complicity & Resistance in a Controlled Society” on Thursday, February 17 at 7 p.m. in Terry Concert Hall on campus. The event, which was moderated by…
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The Slow Suicide of the West
El lento suicidio de Occidente (Spanish) The Slow Suicide of the West Jorge Majfud The West appears, suddenly, devoid of its greatest virtues, constructed century after century, preoccupied now only with reproducing its own defects and with copying the defects of others, such as authoritarianism and the preemptive persecution of innocents. Virtues like tolerance and…
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Rock Democracies, Paper Freedoms, Scissors Securities
Democracias de piedra, Libertades de papel, seguridades de tijera Rock Democracies, Paper Freedoms, Scissors Securities Jorge Majfud The University of Georgia Ten years ago, contradicting the postmodernist wave, we developed in Crítica de la pasión pura (Critique of Pure Passion) the idea of morality as a form of collective conscience. In the same way that…
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Humanism, the West’s Last Great Utopia
El humanismo, la última gran utopía de Occidente (Spanish) Humanism, the West’s Last Great Utopia Jorge Majfud The University of Georgia One of the characteristics of conservative thought throughout modern history has been to see the world as a collection of more or less independent, isolated, and incompatible compartments. In its discourse, this is simplified…
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Ten Lashes Against Humanism
Diez azotes contra el humanismo (Spanish) Ten Lashes Against Humanism Jorge Majfud A minor tradition in conservative thought is the definition of the dialectical adversary as mentally deficient and lacking in morality. As this never constitutes an argument, the outburst is covered up with some fragmented and repetitious reasoning, proper to the postmodern thought…
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The Importance of Being Called an Idiot
¿ Cómo definimos la idiotez ideológica? (Spanish) The Importance of Being Called an Idiot Jorge Majfud A few days ago a gentleman recommended that I read a new book about idiocy. I believe it was called The Return of the Idiot, The Idiot Returns, or something like that. I told him that I had…
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The Rebellion of the Readers, Key to Our Century
La rebelión de los lectores (Spanish) The Rebellion of the Readers, Key to Our Century Jorge Majfud Among the most frequented sites for tourists in Europe are the Gothic cathedrals. Gothic spaces, so different from the Romanesque of centuries before, tend to impress us through the subtlety of their aesthetic, something they share with the…
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