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There are more and more individuals to whom the State is terribly annoying
The debate on the correspondence between knowledge and reality dates back to the origins of philosophy, more than 2,500 years ago. St. Thomas Aquinas thought that truth exists and is linked to God, Nietzsche considered it a human construction, Foucault criticized the idea of a universal truth and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez has a truth for every day of the week. In this he is similar to Protagoras, who said that certainties depend on each person and that man is the measure of all things, even if in M.Á.R’s case it is a woman. We can think about this problem for 500 years and two millennia and it will not change the fact that the press release was sent in which the Attorney General alluded to the crimes against the Public Treasury of Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s boyfriend. On Sunday afternoon, judge Manuela Carmena, in the television program hosted by the woman who lives with the winner of this year’s Planeta Prize, explained that the sentence against Álvaro García Ortiz is very harmful to our democracy. For yours truly, this statement is true. Even if there are more and more citizens for whom the word democracy (another one that has blown out 2,500 candles) no longer represents freedom, equality, majority rule, social justice, fraternity, participation or respect for minorities, then they do not find the sense in defending it at all costs. There is no shortage of reasons for disappointment. Many of these are the same ones who consider the State terribly annoying and who find the anarcho-capitalist ideas of people like Javier Milei hilarious, who won an election by ripping institutions out of a flowchart and then received a medal from the supposed winner of this mess. We may mull over this question for another two millennia, but that won’t change the fact that IDA’s boyfriend, like so many award winners, would rather not be held accountable or pay taxes. Avars have existed since the origins of the polis.
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With a degree in journalism from USC and a master’s degree in marketing from the London College of Communication, she specializes in consumerism and mass culture. He started with Diario de León and La Voz de Galicia. Author of ‘I Want and I Can’t. A History of the Elegant People of Spain’ (Blackie Books). Always read the comments.
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