again, and I know that last time, I'll talk about me. And, as a good shy, I am also an exhibitionist and taste (perhaps need) of the daily dose of self-glorification or justification for my attitudes and inclinations. I'm like (this "I" will not be the last of the text.)
When I was fifteen or sixteen years and was a frequent book Manichean barking against what appeared to me as the height of ideological imposition (of religion classes in my comfortable and not a little sinister charter schools), and even struggled tirelessly for the left (sorry, I meant left), with the eternal question on the lips when I talked about a writer or intellectual either: "Yes, but what is left?", found in the family library a copy of "The Philanthropic Ogre," by Octavio Paz. I asked, not created: "But let's see, what is left?".
The answer ("Not exactly, but it is a very fine intellectual") encouraged me to read it. Essential reading in my life. I have recently reminded again and I rescued the book from the shelf. I no longer is as bright as before, for peace (at least the Peace of 1978, year of publication of the book) seems far more superficial and excessive zeal for failing to appear as a reactionary, but I can say that its central design has been that, from his reading, has nurtured my political opinions. Namely, Peace focuses on the following points:
1) Review of the State as an organism with obvious (and almost inevitable) bureaucratic tendencies.
2) Criticism of "Real Socialism", the USSR and other countries in its orbit, as well as dictatorships that had been imposed at the time in different countries under the banner of Marxism-Leninism.
3) Criticism of the USSR-indulgent intellectuals who refused until they had no choice but the existence of concentration camps.
4) Defense of pluralistic and democratic society against totalitarian tendencies.
5) defense of political freedom as a prerequisite for a just society.
Accepting the fact that his criticism of the totalitarian systems of the "Eastern Block" responded to a short-term need, I believe that general conclusions can be drawn today. Above all, the contempt the "formal freedoms" that many accompanied by an invocation of the state as mayor of plausible economic and political excesses. In short, the loss of "bellows" of the idea of \u200b\u200brule of law against the political state and interventionist heavily armed.
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I did not want to explain something, it meant that my text more lyrical evocation of my youth, perhaps more personal, not so attached to the data of a book in my life has been more than that ("Paul, a turning point?" I hate that phrase). Maybe I've always wanted to be Octavio Paz. A provocative ideological, a scholar traveler and connoisseur of thousand traditions, able to drop appointments and referrals without my disheveled his toupee. I do not know if I seek to become. Probably not. Do not even know if I want (or what I can). But for a time, at least helped me to be free of restraints and prejudices and inspired in me a love of place me on the counter in any circumstance or discussion. I missed that time, more than illusion that analysis, I must admit, and therefore I have reviewed the excellent (though too long and perhaps somewhat overblown) Soler Serrano interview Nobel Prize. I had never heard the voice of Octavio Paz before seeing this document. I was surprised by the mannerisms of poet (I expected a rough or a threshold Fernan Gomez), but I enjoyed the peace of the era of "The Philanthropic Ogre," in full power.
I've seen who rescues a toy box: happy by finding even recognize what I marveled at him, but unable to accept it as absolutely vital reference. Not even looking for something like that. Perhaps take some of their apparent calm and balance and keep it to myself.
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