Consciencia del voto

(CR) Rocha, Proceso 1860

Conozco gente que hace 6 años se creyó la idea de "AMLO un peligro para México"y se creyó todo eso de "FC el presidente del empleo".
Aquí en España, los medios de comunicación españoles con tantos intereses económicos  en nuestro país, tambien hicieron campaña contra el "Peje".
Pensemos que ha pasado durante todo este tiempo y como le ha ido al país:  la muerte masiva, la violencia, soldados y muertos en la calle, hijos desaparecidos. El presidente al final de cuentas es el monigote de los lobbies y los poderes fácticos. Con nuestro voto, sobre todo de los poderes legislativo, se pueden equilibrar las fuerzas ¡Este 1 Julio, 2012 a votar con consciéncia!

Jovenes y educación

Laughing in the open air; have yourself another dream.
Tonight.
Maybe we can start again.
Only the young can break away, break away.
Lost when the wind blows; on your own

Only the young (B. Flowers)

Impresionante la claridad de ideas de la juventud, sobre todo cuando parece que bajo la situación económica actual se esta tratando a la educación un producto más sujeto a los mercados. Los jóvenes son conscientes y hay quienes la defienden teniendo las ideas claras:

“La educación es la antesala de la democracia. No podemos formar estudiantes y ciudadanos si es que no le permitimos organizarse (…) la juventud de hoy no puede conformarse con salir a las calles o incluso proponer una alternativa… tiene que generar una mayoría social y política capaz de disputar las correlaciones de fuerza” en el ámbito social y político.
“No es una lucha sectaria ni generacional, es una lucha intergeneracional de todo un pueblo que tiene que ponerse a disposición de transformar la educación para transformar la sociedad” .....Camilia Vallejo Dowling. Lider estudiantil chilena en conferencia UAM Xochimilco 15/junio/2012

Los movimientos sociales que ahora se estan generando: los chavos YOSOY132, los estudiantes chilenos, los indignados españoles, los egipcios de la plaza Tahir, todos són esperanzadores.

How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?

Interesante entrevista que hace Bill Moyers (PBS) al sociopsicólogo Jonathan Haidt (University of Virginia). Impresionante los parametros utilizados y nueva, para mi, la conclusión a la que arriba sobre la mentalidad de la gente politicamente conservadora (Entienden la naturaleza humana mejor que los liberales!!!!).  Entenderlo, interiorizarlo puede hacer que se encuentren mejores argumentos que contraposen las políticas conservadoras.

"If you imagine each of our righteous minds as being, like an audio equalizer with six slider switches, and the first one is care, compassion, those sorts of issues, liberals have it turned up to 11....

The next two, liberty and fairness, when liberty and fairness conflict with care, are you going to punish someone, or are you going to be compassionate? Liberals are more likely to go with care.

In other words, care trumps liberty and fairness, even though everybody cares about all three of those. The next three, loyalty, authority and sanctity, what we find, across many questionnaires, many surveys and analyses of texts and sermons, all sorts of things, is that liberals don't talk a lot about loyalty, you know, group loyalty. They don't talk a lot about authority and the importance of order and authority, maintaining order. They don't talk a lot about sanctity. Conservatives on the other hand, what we find is that, they value all of these more or less equally.

And I think this is part of the reason why conservatives have done a much better job of connecting with American morality and convincing people that they are the party of moral values."

 La frase mas impresionante porque si los vemos desde el punto de vista del humanismo:

"Conservative intellectuals actually are more in touch with human nature. They have a more accurate view of human nature:We need structure. We need families. We need groups. It's okay to have memberships and rivalries. All that stuff is okay, unless it crosses the threshold into Manichaeism. So I think that it would be very difficult to run a good society without resting much on loyalty, authority and sanctity. I think you need to use those."

Sin embargo, el analisis de la naturaleza humana explica que en mucho de esta esta basada en la hipocresia:

..."morality is part of our nature. And morality is, makes us do things that we think are good, but it also makes us do things that we often think are bad. It's all part of our groupish, tribal, judgmental, hyper-judgmental, hypocritical nature. We are all born to be hypocrites. That's part of the design.

Our minds evolved not just to help us find the truth about how things work. If you're navigating through a landscape, sure, you need to know, you know, where the dangers are, where the opportunities are. But in the social world, our minds are not designed to figure out who really did what to whom. They are finely tuned navigational machines to work through a complicated social network, in which you've got to maintain your alliances, and your reputation.
And as Machiavelli told us long ago, it matters far more what people think of you than what the reality is. And we are experts at manipulating our self-presentation. So, we're so good at it, that we actually believe the nonsense that we say to other people."