TEÓDULO LÓPEZ MELÉNDEZ, Escritor y Periodista - Caracas, Venezuela
When the European bookstores are traveled one it reaches the conclusion that Europe has stopped to think. In the merely literary land the most interesting thing is always the translations, especially of authors of the This that had been forgotten and whose quality-especially those of among-war - has made them leave, as always it happens, to a world that, lacking authors of quality, has seen in them an editorial mine.
In the land merely of the thought philosophical utterers are gotten more than properly this philosophers, being France the exception, in spite of not escaping from a general phenomenon, like we will see later on. Italy continues being the territory of the artificial speculation and there Luigi shines with own name Ferrajoli, with its monumental one
It begins iuris. Theory of the diritto and della democrazia, on which you discusses and you polemiza, like have more than enough their previous books.
In the Quixotic intent in that I have insisted, of trying to give ideas to my Venezuelan country where they give other people's shame the theses “programmatic” of the political parties, I have gone reaching another conclusion Europe slowly it has more than enough: it is thought, but it is not known. In the land of the political ideas, for example, I have discovered that there is a thick number of Spanish professors that meditate with great quality on the democratic theory, but they are not strange avis raris published massively and whose works are limited to a very limited circulation.
Without entering in disquisiciones on the state of the current literature, and limiting me to the field of the political thought, the conclusion is always the: the crisis of the system owes herself, in good part, to the divorce between politics and thought. Here I should remember my sympathies, in the last French presidential campaign, by the socialist candidate Ségolène Royal, based in the assumption that had made of the essayist's positions Pierre Rosavallon. It is the only case that I remember of an important leader assuming a thinker's positions in today's compressed Europe. In Latin America we cannot not even think about a similar possibility.
I meditate on the topic verifying as the precampaña electoral Venezuelan for the local and regional elections has entered in kind of a “black hole”, where everything is banality and personalist conflicts. Inclusive from the practical point of view of the attainment of unitary candidates the country is boring. The interest has vanished in the internal conflicts of both parts, oficialismo and opposition, without the most minimum reflection appears, let us don't say of concrete government projects, because what doesn't neither appear is a conceptual wrapping on the regionalización or the revitalización of the local world. We have arrived to the end that has left diluting until the practical political transcendency of the event. I can hardly remember a bottom article on the municipal structuring and the participation according to the new concepts.
However, the European contrast between a solid political thought and underground and a scandalous practice as the Irish rejection to the reformulado in Lisbon to cure the wounds from the rejection to the European Constitution or the Spanish politics's daily talks or the dicotomía among an Europe where doesn't call himself on the whole to the whole European town to vote for the juridical classification that must govern it but for isolated countries and the theoretical reflection that there is able to be expressed underground, it allows to establish that the democracy and the thought will reconcile so it punishes of lasting less, the first one that Ingrid's popularity Betancourt-to mention a case of which is in charge of the press -, liberated and coherent almost time, to fall prey of serious contradictions, of declarations prepotentes and of ingenuousness until becoming reason of sentimental speculations of the press now “rose” and to be causing the rejection of their fellow citizens. What did France save him the life? The truth is that the French diplomacy almost the bush.
The divorce of which speak, not the eventual of the Betancourt that is his matter and of the readers of Corin Tellado, that of the politics and the thought, producing absolutely serious consequences are already. If the editorial world (globalizado, at the mercy of the holdings and of the establishment of a minimum of 15 percent of earnings) refuses to publish the political thought, unless an author for via exceptional it breaks the parameters, we will be before one of the most serious cases in mercantilización of the culture that you can only combat with a penetration without intermittences in the escape of Internet, but that, even this way, it lacks enough penetration.
That the politicians don't read it is an obvious conclusion and that the readers decrease the it is also, although I hear the foolishness in contrary. On Internet everything has been said (the democratization in the diffusion of ideas, the rupture of the informative monopolies, etc) and everything is true, but we should conclude that wastes away a non outstanding information in the conceptual field of the political thing. If we see the stupidities that a towering percentage writes in the calls “forums” of the pages web we will conclude in a democratization of the cretinism, as if of for yes it was no longer it.
The thought is hidden. Terrible truth in one century where the totalitarian threats begin to refresh. Latin America has not been meticulous in the production of political ideas, with honorable exceptions clearing it is, but the Europe of the Century of the Luz looks like today an out bulb because has given its editorial soul to the lucrative desire, to the mediocrity rampante, ignoring that in the heart of its centers of studies it is still thought. Sloterdijk, Finkielkraut or Ferrajoli, only to mention three running the risk of the serious omissions, they are birds that have been able to fly above the self-absorbed Europe and that it faces the immigrations with inconsistent juridical texts with their own history.
If the thought is hidden because doesn't adapt to the miraculous paradigm of the gain, it means that has sold him the soul to the Devil without it already exists Goethe to relate it.
