Manuel Cruz
Social Democracy has finally Applied Management become the conservative designs. Calling "markets" to the formerly called "capitalism" does the same as criticizing the right.
As is well easy to see, when a group of people of a certain age meet any occasion and comes into the conversation the topic of today's youth, more often is that recurrence of a 
a series of topics that generally affect the life of that apathy, the indifference of younger generations to the public or their lack of interest in anything else other than their material or their own personal interest topics that in any case, reveal a vast distance and strangeness to the young by those who support them.
seems clear that the logic with which our young people are part of one's own life and beyond, history has changed radically. On one occasion, referring to an undergraduate class that the idea that, basically, the role of certain social or political events is to be the symbolic reference, imaginary, an entire generation, which is recognized as such precisely for his role in these events, I happened to ask the students what this event was to them that they had scored, which believed can be defined, reflecting better time to break into the world felt. I confess that what really caught my attention was the declaration of a student, who, without a doubt, the event had marked a radical change in his life and that of his generation was the appearance of flat rate Internet access.
The aforementioned student knew perfectly well that this, like any other technological innovation, was a purely formal element, which can be made to serve quite antagonistic causes vehicular or content of very different types. But not seem to mind. First, because he believed finding emergency of forms of sociality (in particular, via social networks) unpublished so far and, to that extent, certainly capable of enabling new ways of relating between people. But above all, secondly, because the most important of their displacement of perspective was so radical challenging inherited mechanisms, basically, the stories about construction-generational epic. And he did it by clearing the assumption according to which participation in an exemplary event historically legitimate for some reason a generation, to the extent that becomes a model or reference for the future, of course precisely the generation of their elders has contributed to a decisive blow. Because
does not appear that members of the latter, she did so allegedly idealistic and concerned about building a fairer world, are able to provide too many lessons to anyone. By way of illustration hasty: members of the same more politically conscious (and, consequently, either left, right-wingers were all apolitical), which so-and-railed so vehemently to social democracy because, they say, no was anything other than the manager of capitalism in times of crisis, had no major problem in youth abandon their radical beliefs and update them embracing positions the social reformer when this became hegemonic progressive political force. Now whistling, staring at the ceiling, while attending the show to see how, without other changes than just replacing the word "capitalism" with the word "markets", what was once criticized is exactly what they seem to be doing at this moment own.
With the unique and little consolation to think that the heirs of those who formulated as ruthless criticism (which was, remember, the Communists) nobody would have run better fortune, abandoned by his former electorate, unable to manage increasing social despair, paralyzed by what you see, before the dilemma of addressing the complaints, if not torn-cries of the poor or the Franciscans trills of sustainability (I avoid referring, not to distract the attention of any reader of this paper, to the unwavering attention that surprisingly left of the left continues to provide spectacles of nationalism, so often effective ideological trinket right).
This being undoubtedly the worst, we should not fail to note another aspect, perhaps less obvious but no less important, in which the self-styled reformist or social-democratic left also seems to have ended up becoming manager applied the conservative designs. I referring to the plane of ideas. After decades (at least, from Daniel Bell) by repeating the last sectors of the thesis as the ideologies that had come to an end, that the distinction between right and left had been overtaken by the evolution of society itself or that the grand narratives of emancipation and any utopian proposals had stopped making sense, thesis systematically all replication from the progressive base of emphasizing the need for policy imprescriptible with the disinherited (is, ultimately, the only tool at your fingertips for the transformation of existing), now it seems that social democracy have also endorsed this respect the conservative thesis that both reviled.
Thus, they were supporters of the alleged third way Labour who had, as if a revolution in ideas is involved, as the thesis that there are no problems right and left, but solutions of either sign . And it was one of our most prestigious progressive leaders who welcomed the Chinese proverb "white cat, black cat, what matters is it catches mice" to illustrate his conviction that the most important criterion by which to govern a politician in the performance of their business, above all other related values \u200b\u200bor ideology, is effectiveness. It is true that at certain times, especially during election campaigns, politicians are often left feint as if he still enjoyed some theoretical discourse itself, specifically, with which to punish his adversary but as soon as they are encouraged to achieve it, as red that leaves your lips are fuzzy expressions like "social cohesion" and the like ("values \u200b\u200bof achievement, for example), expressions that repeat like a mantra as soon as they placed a microphone nearby. In short, although he was not right to discuss the copyright of the thesis of the end of ideologies, we must recognize that even in terms of ideas, the Social Democrats have been the most current that effective managers.
Let me end this text referring to a fact, that perhaps some reader may seem merely anecdotal (and think that I bring him here by mere professional bias), but it seems to me quite revealing of the contradictions to which I I have been referring to here. Our ministerial authorities, regional and general academic, formed the overwhelming majority of former tenured teachers are not the seventies and eighties (the famous PNN), have been implementing for years in English University policies that are resulting in some high levels of insecurity among teachers younger, not to mention the difficulties that those authorities put the possibility of new hires, routinely held back on the ground, almost as sacred as the market, referred to above-zero cost, now reformulated as the crisis. Result? The bloody paradox that within no long time will in many English universities as teachers with precarious contracts PNN had for almost 30 years.
The problem, as can be seen, not that we are a plug for the next generation: the problem is that we left empty the bottle. On the day that those who come after us will take the floor to make broth.
source: ElPais.com
Manuel Cruz is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEspasa Essay Prize 2010 for his book I love, therefore I am.
a series of topics that generally affect the life of that apathy, the indifference of younger generations to the public or their lack of interest in anything else other than their material or their own personal interest topics that in any case, reveal a vast distance and strangeness to the young by those who support them. seems clear that the logic with which our young people are part of one's own life and beyond, history has changed radically. On one occasion, referring to an undergraduate class that the idea that, basically, the role of certain social or political events is to be the symbolic reference, imaginary, an entire generation, which is recognized as such precisely for his role in these events, I happened to ask the students what this event was to them that they had scored, which believed can be defined, reflecting better time to break into the world felt. I confess that what really caught my attention was the declaration of a student, who, without a doubt, the event had marked a radical change in his life and that of his generation was the appearance of flat rate Internet access.
The aforementioned student knew perfectly well that this, like any other technological innovation, was a purely formal element, which can be made to serve quite antagonistic causes vehicular or content of very different types. But not seem to mind. First, because he believed finding emergency of forms of sociality (in particular, via social networks) unpublished so far and, to that extent, certainly capable of enabling new ways of relating between people. But above all, secondly, because the most important of their displacement of perspective was so radical challenging inherited mechanisms, basically, the stories about construction-generational epic. And he did it by clearing the assumption according to which participation in an exemplary event historically legitimate for some reason a generation, to the extent that becomes a model or reference for the future, of course precisely the generation of their elders has contributed to a decisive blow. Because
does not appear that members of the latter, she did so allegedly idealistic and concerned about building a fairer world, are able to provide too many lessons to anyone. By way of illustration hasty: members of the same more politically conscious (and, consequently, either left, right-wingers were all apolitical), which so-and-railed so vehemently to social democracy because, they say, no was anything other than the manager of capitalism in times of crisis, had no major problem in youth abandon their radical beliefs and update them embracing positions the social reformer when this became hegemonic progressive political force. Now whistling, staring at the ceiling, while attending the show to see how, without other changes than just replacing the word "capitalism" with the word "markets", what was once criticized is exactly what they seem to be doing at this moment own.
With the unique and little consolation to think that the heirs of those who formulated as ruthless criticism (which was, remember, the Communists) nobody would have run better fortune, abandoned by his former electorate, unable to manage increasing social despair, paralyzed by what you see, before the dilemma of addressing the complaints, if not torn-cries of the poor or the Franciscans trills of sustainability (I avoid referring, not to distract the attention of any reader of this paper, to the unwavering attention that surprisingly left of the left continues to provide spectacles of nationalism, so often effective ideological trinket right).
This being undoubtedly the worst, we should not fail to note another aspect, perhaps less obvious but no less important, in which the self-styled reformist or social-democratic left also seems to have ended up becoming manager applied the conservative designs. I referring to the plane of ideas. After decades (at least, from Daniel Bell) by repeating the last sectors of the thesis as the ideologies that had come to an end, that the distinction between right and left had been overtaken by the evolution of society itself or that the grand narratives of emancipation and any utopian proposals had stopped making sense, thesis systematically all replication from the progressive base of emphasizing the need for policy imprescriptible with the disinherited (is, ultimately, the only tool at your fingertips for the transformation of existing), now it seems that social democracy have also endorsed this respect the conservative thesis that both reviled.
Thus, they were supporters of the alleged third way Labour who had, as if a revolution in ideas is involved, as the thesis that there are no problems right and left, but solutions of either sign . And it was one of our most prestigious progressive leaders who welcomed the Chinese proverb "white cat, black cat, what matters is it catches mice" to illustrate his conviction that the most important criterion by which to govern a politician in the performance of their business, above all other related values \u200b\u200bor ideology, is effectiveness. It is true that at certain times, especially during election campaigns, politicians are often left feint as if he still enjoyed some theoretical discourse itself, specifically, with which to punish his adversary but as soon as they are encouraged to achieve it, as red that leaves your lips are fuzzy expressions like "social cohesion" and the like ("values \u200b\u200bof achievement, for example), expressions that repeat like a mantra as soon as they placed a microphone nearby. In short, although he was not right to discuss the copyright of the thesis of the end of ideologies, we must recognize that even in terms of ideas, the Social Democrats have been the most current that effective managers.
Let me end this text referring to a fact, that perhaps some reader may seem merely anecdotal (and think that I bring him here by mere professional bias), but it seems to me quite revealing of the contradictions to which I I have been referring to here. Our ministerial authorities, regional and general academic, formed the overwhelming majority of former tenured teachers are not the seventies and eighties (the famous PNN), have been implementing for years in English University policies that are resulting in some high levels of insecurity among teachers younger, not to mention the difficulties that those authorities put the possibility of new hires, routinely held back on the ground, almost as sacred as the market, referred to above-zero cost, now reformulated as the crisis. Result? The bloody paradox that within no long time will in many English universities as teachers with precarious contracts PNN had for almost 30 years.
The problem, as can be seen, not that we are a plug for the next generation: the problem is that we left empty the bottle. On the day that those who come after us will take the floor to make broth.
source: ElPais.com
Manuel Cruz is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bEspasa Essay Prize 2010 for his book I love, therefore I am.
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