Una vez me dijeron que debería meterme a la política por que en política no hay espacios vacíos y que si no lo ocupaba yo, otro lo haría (alguien corrupto o tramposo, en esta versión). Hoy, me parece que son los partidos los que deharon un hueco y que la ciudadanía lo está llenando. ¡Qué emoción!
(Source: Slate)
Este antepasado mío, Eugenio Iturbide, se fue a EEUU y formó parte de un circo en 1945. Ahí hacía sus suertes charras. De esto ya había escrito antes acá: http://www.caleidoscopeando.com/2008/03/agua-para-elefantes.html
Gran canción. Me los habían recomendado varios cuates.
Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:
1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light.
3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
(Source: brainpickings.org)
To say that staying home and raising children isn’t, strictly speaking, “work” is not the same as saying that it’s not hard, or not valuable. No one with children—which Rosen has—could ever suggest that taking care of them is easy. But when unemployment statistics are compiled, they don’t include unpaid labor. Volunteer work and full-time parenting are laudable and socially essential, but they aren’t the same thing as a paid job. Employment, or the lack of it, is the burning issue in America’s economy at the moment. It was in that context—a discussion of the unemployment numbers on a television talk show, and Romney’s comments that Ann was his source for women’s opinions on the issue—that Rosen spoke.
(Source: newyorker.com)
Leo una revista a Baricco en la revista Ñ y me sorprende leerlo hablar como argentino…
Lo que hacen las traducciones. Yo siempre lo había leído como Anagrama me lo presentó.
