Saturday 10.8.2022
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Last update – 20:50
Lighting and fumigation
“I claim the number 16.202 for lack of public lighting. It is about 2 suspended lamps, in Alfonsina Storni 2700: one at 2706 and the other at 2748. We have been supporting it for months. turn the electricity back on! We can’t live in the dark, which makes robberies and robberies easier … Another thing: please fumigate! Mosquitoes have invaded the city. “
On the sanctions of the Municipality
“With reference to the new costs of the sanctions that the Municipality will apply, I want to ask the municipality to publish on which days and times the different types of waste must be removed to avoid being in violation. Likewise, car attendants are not allowed in several roads washing cars, even if the responsibility lies with the owner who gives him permission to do this work on public roads.If there is no one to wash, the infringement will not be committed.
Anomy and education
“Populism exacerbates anomie, that is, the lack of rules, regulations, models of social behavior, collective disciplines, even in the symbolic institutes of generation of that normality and sociality: schools and colleges. And so, foolish adolescents and politicians take possession of the schools, generate the loss of educational authority, tear apart the education that is essential to create a country and claim the old Peronist aphorism: ‘Sneakers yes, books no’, which has generated this current situation of almost 50% of poverty, unemployment, due to lack of educational capacity, many times precisely 37%, in a flat, vague, inconsistent country whose only way out, 80 years ago, was that … to the stupidity and wickedness of their adolescents and children, so as not to confront them. to the teachers of Amsafe, UDA, Sadop, Baradel, Alesso, who, through active politics or passive omission, do not collaborate with education and limit themselves to indoctrinating “.
For a fair cinema
“The trial of the juntas marked a milestone in our history and exposed the crimes against humanity committed by the military government. The film ‘Argentina, 1985’, which alludes to that legal event and has just come out, has caused a unusual Nobody wants to get lost in the details: young people, to know facts about whose development they had no or partial knowledge; contemporary adults, to relive forgotten or, perhaps, even unknown situations. After the publication of the book ‘Mai più’, Antonio Tróccoli , Alfonsín’s Interior Minister, promised that this testimony would be accompanied by another. His goal: to highlight the atrocities of subversive groups that devastated our territory in the 1970s. None of this happened. . A detailed account is due, a balance that abandons the constant effort to offer a partial view of that period. Late, the division among the Argentines will remain latent. Pert anto, in order to preserve social peace, it would be desirable that another film, of similar value, would elucidate the problems of a still widespread reality. Serious and undeniable “.
Debt, history and ethics
Ethics, like that part of Philosophy that teaches to think about behavior, helps to reflect on that historical Argentine custom of appealing to foreign debt to cover expenses. Is it right or wrong to do it? Or in other words, is it acceptable as a government resource? In which cases? Already in 1822 the House of the Baring Brothers lent 1,000,000 pounds to the government of Buenos Aires, of which 570,000 came (to be imported soon). It was the policy of these and other London bankers, who, in harmony with their majestic government, between 1822 and 1826, lent more than £ 20 million to American “protonations”, of which they encouraged independence from Spain for fishing with free trade nets. Of those millions, only a third arrived in cash (gold) on the new continent. The commissions, the interest advances, the various repayments, did their job, so that an American story of debt and dependence that still lasts. In our case, the Baring loan was politically justified in the construction of the port of Buenos Aires, the running water network, the foundation of three cities on the Buenos Aires coast and other cities on the new internal border.
Beyond the fact that the war with Brazil, Rivadavia’s resignation, civil wars, venality or otherwise, disarmed those plans, it is clear that there was (in addition to an imperialist business and commercial policy) an ethical foundation for a generation to compromise the work and savings of their children and grandchildren, and this is because they would be leaving them infrastructure works, which they and their descendants could enjoy. Coming to the present, Ethics, therefore, has strong answers. Why should the next generations pay our debts? Just because they will use ports, roads, hydroelectric plants, airports, schools, railways and any other capital structure built with that money. Any other intention is undoubtedly justifiable, since it compromises the life, freedom and work of future generations. Furthermore, history has already taught us that although the international community would not accept the imposition of an emperor as the French did with Mexico when they stopped paying the debt in the 19th century, or an armed invasion and a naval blockade to collect. , as was the case with Venezuela at the beginning of the 20th century, these loans are conditions of its own development (and prevent the consequent competition on the international market).
It is up to each of us to want to learn, both past and present authorities, the elect and those who elected them.
Historical experiences, analyzed in the light of Ethics, are sources of learning and perhaps allow us to build a better society, which we can pass on to those who will come after us.
