Am întâlnit tot felul de explicații și păreri cu privire la soluția dată de judecători. De la ”fosta securitate’ și-a păstrat o ‘oarecare’ capacitate de a influența justiția’ până la ‘procurorii au încercat să facă ‘procesul securității’ iar judecătorii s-au folosit de chestia asta pentru a-i face scăpați pe cei doi’.
În Giuleștiul meu natal, pe vremea când Ursu era călcat în picioare de securiști, umbla o vorbă.
‘S-antâlnit hoțu’ cu milițianu’.
Adică s-au întâlnit doi oameni cu aceiași mentalitate dar care se află – cu totul și cu totul întâmplător – pe părțile opuse ale baricadei.
Ce vreau să spun cu chestia asta? Ce spuneau și Giuleștenii de rând. Care vedeau cum hoții furau liniștiți iar milițienii se făceau că nu văd în timp ce-și primeau tainul de la hoți. Asta atâta vreme cât hoții nu săreau calul…
Așa și în situația asta. Ursu e mort, toată lumea știe cine l-a omorât iar procuratura și judecatoria au reușit să-i facă scăpați pe cei doi nemernici. Din greșeală, din incompetență, din-adins… nici nu mai contează!
Tot ce contează este că omul de rând, precum Giuleșteanul pre-revoluționar, are din ce in ce mai puțină încredere în chestia aia care se cheamă ‘stat’.
“The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which surveyed 4,414 adults nationwide online, showed a tight race in the November 2024 general election should Trump face Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, who is seeking reelection and is not expected to face serious competition for his party’s nomination.
Biden led Trump 37% to 35% in a hypothetical matchup, with the remaining 28% saying they weren’t sure who to pick or would vote for someone else or no one at all. Neither Biden nor Trump were widely liked by people outside their parties. Just 31% of independents had a favorable opinion of Trump and 32% thought as much about Biden. At 80 years old, Biden is the oldest U.S. president ever to sit in the White House, and 63% of Democrats in the poll agreed with a statement that he was too old to work in government. Thirty-seven percent disagreed.
Still, Biden leads the Democratic contest by even more than Trump leads the Republican field, with 63% of Democrats’ support compared with 15% for anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
What’s going on here? What happened with/in the greatest/most powerful democracy on Earth? Why has the American People allowed itself to be split in half? Each of those halves bowing to its own idol…
Only because ‘they had avocados’?!?
And what about Reagan? He was right, after all… Trump was the government, wasn’t he?
Reagan was incomplete. Government is nothing but a tool. A tool for the society to govern itself with. “of the people, by the people, for the people“. But also a tool for a dictator to exploit a country. Blaming the tool never takes the blamer out of the ‘unpleasant’ situation.
A more complete statement would have been:
‘Any unchecked government tends, sooner rather than later, to become a problem.’
The key word here being ‘unchecked’, not government. For the same reason which had prompted ‘god’ to warn us:
Any graven image you will ever make will inevitably be incomplete. Not because of your incompetence but because of my infinite complexity. I, your god, am infinite. Hence incomprehensible. You might glimpse some, or even a lot, about my ‘true’ nature but you’ll never find out enough. Enough for you to make a ‘usable’ graven image. A reliable idol…
Versurile au fost scrise de Ioan S. Nenițescu, sublocotenent de dorobanți la Plevna in 1877, doctor în filozofie la Leipzig in 1886 si membru corespondent al Academiei în 1896. Tatăl său a fost negustor de pânzeturi fine la Galați.
După cum bine știm, în a doua jumatate a secolului XIX românii luaseră calea Occidentelui. Cei mai mulți să învețe, cu toate că a fost vorba și despre un număr semnificativ de ardeleni care au plecat în America. Să facă bani.
Din 1990 încoace, de la căderea comunismului, românii au re-început să plece. O primă tranșă după reprimarea brutală a Pieții Universității. Au urmat cei pentru care granițele nu reprezintă un obstacol. Și care au fost acuzați, pe nedrept, că ar fi mâncat lebedele din Viena. Apoi, încet-încet, au început să plece toți. Muncitorii la muncă, studenții la școală și profesorii la catedre. Am constatat, cu stupoare, că cel mai comunist dintre profesorii pe care i-am avut la Politehnică ajunsese să predea la o universitate medie din America. Daca știa carte…
Da mă băieți, da’ pentru asta s-au războit oamenii ăia la Plevna? Ca să avem noi de unde pleca?
„Românii orișiunde cresc”, în viziunea lui Nenițescu, înseamnă „românii sunt în stare să facă față la orice”. Eventual oriunde…
‘Exploring the consequences of our limited consciences‘
A truth is, first and foremost, an expression. A message, formulated by an observer, describing a portion of what the person expressing themselves considers to be a ‘portion’ of ‘reality’. Being a message, any truth is formulated by means of a language.
Does anybody know everything about any subject? About anything, actually? No, nobody knows everything about anything. Hence there is no such thing as a complete truth.
Furthermore, being expressed by means of a language, a truth – any expression, actually – will never be able to convey to the person receiving the message everything the transmitter intended to say. The transmitter is never able to cram ‘everything’ inside an inherently limited message, no language is absolutely ‘precise’ and no receiver will ever interpret any message the way the transmitter intended it to mean. Hence even if anybody will ever learn everything about anything, that person will never be able to convey that knowledge to anybody else. Let alone to everybody else…
What next? ‘Never ever believe anything? Anymore?!?’
Is it possible for us, humans living in concert, to cooperate in this manner? Knowing that nothing which is being said, one way or another, is ‘true’? Completely true?
Well, we did get this far, didn’t we? We’ve been expressing ourselves, in the imperfect manner I described above, since we’ve learned to use language. Since we’ve learned to speak…
70 000 years ago, give or take a few millennia, is when some scientists believe we’ve started to communicate more or less like we do now. The people living then had the same genes we have now and the bones they have left us to dig up and stare at are similar to ours. Hence the only thing which differentiates us from our ancestors is our culture. A treasure of knowledge which has been noticed – bit by bit, formulated using language – message by message, and remembered, one way or another. Hence the only difference between us and our ancestors is a collection of incomplete – and imperfectly interpreted – pieces of truth.
Then again, is it possible for us – humans living in concert – to cooperate by means of incomplete and ‘misinterpreted’ pieces of truth? Well, we came this far going (up?) this way, didn’t we? It seems that as long as we do it ‘in good faith’ things will, eventually, ‘mesh up’ just fine!
Which leads us to ‘the truth’. ‘The’ as different from ‘A’ truth.
While a truth is a message, the truth is a state of mind. The understanding of the fact that what we call ‘reality’ can be learned only ‘in concert’. Only as long as we help each-other along the process. Only as long as each time we formulate ‘a message’ we do our best to ‘speak the truth’.
The only intriguing aspect in all this is the courage of the person who had affixed it!
You see, the first religious beliefs/cosmological explanations maintained that the whole ‘creation’ had been given birth by the ‘First Mother’. People in those times – like all of us – were just extrapolating their everyday knowledge into the metaphysical realm. Which hadn’t yet been given that name…
After the advent of agriculture – which had introduced the notion of property/inheritance, hence the need to defend those things – men took over. As owners – better suited for war – and then as dispensers of meaning. A.k.a. priests. God followed suit. It had become a Father and a Shepard. It still is in the minds of the ordinary believers.
Reading some theology – it’s enough to scrap the surface – I found out that most theologians maintained that God was unfathomable. That its main characteristic is the fact that it is ‘hidden’.
Then how come some of us are so sure about its gender? About its will? About what it means for us to do?!?
As usual, Chomsky is only half-right. Opportunities shouldn’t be provided. Period! In fact, nobody should be able to control/provide sizable amounts of opportunity!
On the other hand, making it so that only a small number of people enjoy all the opportunities in the world is, indeed, criminal. Unsustainable for the longer time frame, actually!
I have spent the first 30 years of my life under communist rule. Under a communist yoke, actually.
I have witnessed Trump being elected President of the United States. Thrown out by popular vote. Then I watched Mike Pence being spirited away by the Secret Service. Some of those convinced by Trump’s Big Lie were chasing the Vice President inside the Capitol in an attempt to…
The US Supreme Court reversed Roe vs Wade.
Prigozhin, also known as Putin’s chef – and lately the mastermind behind PMC Wagner – had become so pissed that organized a field trip. Then turned his troops around and went to Belarus.
What’s going on here?!?
The world has become a battle-field. A political battle-field where ‘right’ and ‘left’ fight for control.
Both sides oblivious to the fact that politics is, or more exactly ‘should be’, about solving people’s problems.
Given my experience – half a life spent under communist yoke – people expect me to root for the right side of the political spectrum. Which I do. But I’m also fully aware that the left would have had no chance, absolutely no chance at all, if those on the right had been just a tad more considerate.
And here’s the catch. There’s no such thing as a good left but there are a good right and a bad right.
The bad thing about the left – about the entire left – is the fact they ‘know better’. All of them. The left is choke full of solutions. Whenever somebody says ‘I noticed there’s a problem with… What are your thoughts about this subject?’ somebody from the left will surely grab the opportunity: ‘we’ve already told you that this and that had to be done a long time ago in order to solve this thing before it even happened’! The bad thing about the right, the militant portion of the modern right, is that they’ve become just like their sworn enemies. They’ve somehow convinced themselves that ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ and that’s what they did. They joined the left in battle. Using the very tools they have borrowed from the left and adopting the very same attitude.
The bad kind of right are also convinced that ‘they know better’. That you have to be a moron in order to be a ‘liberal’. Or, at least, a ‘greenhorn’. “If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain”.
In fact, it’s exactly this infatuation with their own ‘brains’ which is the worst thing about the left. And about the bad right. I see no difference between Marx’s “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” and Trump’s ‘truthful hyperbole’.
You see, Trump isn’t a self made man, as he pretends to be. He would have never become what he is today if Tony Schwartz, a liberal, hadn’t ghostwritten the Art of the Deal.
Furthermore, Trump would have never become the 45th President of the United States of America without the support of the ‘activist republicans’. The ones convinced that Roe vs Wade must be reversed. At all costs. The ones convinced, just like the ‘liberals’ are, that they ‘know better’.
And, by the way, this is a fake. Something that Orwell would have agreed upon but was never actually written by him.
Sometime ago – more than 45 years, when food was still plentiful in communist Romania – I heard for the first time that ‘many people dig their graves with their teeth’. I was too young to understand the deeper meaning of this. That sooner or later each of us will meet the consequences of our previous decisions.
15 years ago I read a book written when I was a toddler. Almost 60 years ago. The Social Construction of Reality by Berger and Luckmann.
The fact that propaganda machines give too much power to symbols doesn’t mitigate the fact that some people find that flying the confederate flag is intended as an offense.
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