Escritos Críticos

Etiqueta: United States

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image

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    Katrina y la hiperrealidad de la imagen (Spanish) Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image by Jorge Majfud Translated by Bruce Campbell September 2, 2005 In the 16th century, the Dominican brother Bartolomé de las Casas wrote an empassioned chronicle about the brutal conquest by the Spanish Empire of the new world. The denunciation…

  • If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise

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    Si América Latina hubiese sido una empresa inglesa (Spanish) If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise Jorge Majfud In the process of conducting a recent study at the University of Georgia, a female student interviewed a young Colombian woman and tape recorded the interview.  The young woman commented on her experience in England and…

  • Propaganda and the Myth of Reconquest

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    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.…

  • The History of Immigration

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    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…

  • Why Culture Matters

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      Why Culture Matters https://web.archive.org/web/20201021181353/https://judolphinmedia.com/14437/editorial/the-oldest-enemy-of-civilization/ In September of 2006, in Lewisburg, Tennessee, a neighborhood group protested because the public library was investing resources in the purchase of books in Spanish.  Of the sixty thousand volumes, only one thousand were published in a language other than English.  The annual budget, totalling thirteen thousand dollars, dedicates the…

  • Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

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    Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Exhibition runs December 13, 2010 through March 13, 2011 Main Library, Fourth Floor «Nazism is applied biology.» — Rudolf Hess, Deputy to Adolf Hitler The Jacksonville Public Library, in partnership with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Remembering for the Future Community Holocaust Initiative, is honored to present Deadly Medicine: Creating…

  • Alfonso el Sabio: Primera crónica general de España

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    Jorge Majfud’s books at Amazon>>   Libros: regreso a las fuentes Alfonso el Sabio: Primera crónica general de España Alfonso X el Sabio: Primera crónica general de España que mandó componer Alfonso el Sabio y se continuaba bajo Sancho IV en 1289. Edición de Ramón Menéndez Pidal. Madrid: Gredos, 1955. En menos de mil páginas,…

  • La irrelevancia de la razón “¿Cómo Dios pudo permitir que sucediera esto?”

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    La irrelevancia de la razón “¿Cómo Dios pudo permitir que sucediera esto?” En 1974 Jorge Luis Borges le comentó a Ernesto Sábato que a su juicio bastaba con un dolor de muelas para negar la existencia de un Dios todopoderoso. Esta observación sería rigurosamente cierta si consideramos que el Todopoderoso es, al mismo tiempo, Todobondadoso.…

  • Aprender idiomas es la mejor gimnasia cerebral para prevenir el Alzheimer

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    WASHINGTON (EFE).— Aprender idiomas es la mejor gimnasia cerebral que existe, ya que no sólo proporciona la capacidad de comunicarse con otros, sino previene demencias seniles como el Alzheimer, aseguró hoy un panel de expertos en Washington. Durante la reunión anual de la Asociación Estadounidense para el Avance de la Ciencia (AAAS), los investigadores indicaron…

  • The Slow Suicide of the West

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    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…

  • Rock Democracies, Paper Freedoms, Scissors Securities

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    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…

  • Humanism, the West’s Last Great Utopia

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    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…

  • Ten Lashes Against Humanism

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    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…

  • Ron Paul et l’anarchisme de droite.

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    Ron Paul y el anarquismo de derecha (Spanish) Ron Paul et l’anarchisme de droite par Jorge Majfud Choqué par la misère qu’il avait rencontrée dans les classes pauvres de la puissante France, Thomas Jefferson écrivit à Madison que cette misère était le résultat de la « unequal division of property » (« partage inégal de la propriété »). La richesse…

  • The official word: criminalize the victim

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    The official word: criminalize the victim By Jorge Majfud Translated by Tony R. Barret Few weeks ago, just as in the last few centuries, the land claims of rural workers have been brought back up in several spots of Latin America. If it is really true that our own 21st century cannot base its economies…

  • Virginia Tech: an ideo-lexical analysis of a tragedy

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    Análisis ideoléxico de una tragedia (Spanish)   Virginia Tech: an ideo-lexical analysis of a tragedy By Jorge Majfud Most of the medicines that it is sold as pills cover a certain drug, chemic or compound with a coat that has an attractive color and a sweet taste. In Spanish, popular wisdom uses this characteristic to…

  • Violence of the Master, Violence of the Slave

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    Violencia del amo, violencia del esclavo (English) Violence of the Master, Violence of the Slave Jorge Majfud For some reason, the phrase “violence begets violence” was popularized the world over at the same time that its implicit meaning was kept restricted to the violence of the oppressed.  That is to say, the master’s violence over…

  • The Repressed History of the United States

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    La historia reprimida de Estados Unidos (Spanish)   The Repressed History of the United States Revolution, Egalitarianism and Anti-imperialism By Jorge Majfud   Taking advantage of another anniversary of the birth of George Washington, president George W. Bush used the occasion to compare the American Revolution of the 18th century with the war in Iraq. …

  • What Is an Ideolexicon?

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    ¿Qué es un ideoléxico? (Spanish) What Is an Ideolexicon? Jorge Majfud I have been asked several times to define what I mean by ideolexicon. I have never given the same response, but that is not due to the idea being ambiguous or undefined but quite the contrary. Although this term is a neologism, I do…

  • What good is literature, anyway?

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    Jorge Majfud’s books at Amazon>>         ¿Para qué sirve la literatura? (I) (Spanish) À quoi sert la littérature ? (Spanish) What good is literature, anyway? I am sure that you have heard many times this loaded query: «Well, what good is literature, anyway?» almost always from a pragmatic businessman or, at worst, from…