Post by account_disabled on Feb 25, 2024 4:15:24 GMT -5
The teaching of History has been so belittled, its weight in the school curriculum has been so diminished, lies have been spread so much as irrefutable truth by so many means that no one can be surprised today that many citizens vote for the parties that were responsible. in the recent past of the greatest atrocities that man has committed and known. I do not claim that in a world in which only that which produces disproportionate benefits matters, History is the fundamental subject. Everyone knows that it is, like Philosophy, Literature or Art, a knowledge that is not listed on the stock market, a place where a price is put on everything ignoring its value, however, there is an irrefutable fact: No people can live, develop and progress humanly if he does not know his past truthfully, if he is not capable of learning from his mistakes, of repudiating those events and people that extinguished freedom, the most precious gift, in the words of Cervantes, that we as men have. Nor if we do not have enough knowledge to praise those true patriots who made their lives an example to follow as ordered by one of Kant's categorical imperatives.
There is a public opinion that continues to be ideologically infected by the disseminators of the General Cause of Francoism A few years ago I listened to a provincial talk show on Cadena Ser, as if in the background, without paying much attention. Suddenly I heard one of the regular commentators say that Azaña had also had his share of things “because one could not forget that in the tragic events of Casas Viejas he was the one who ordered the day laborers to be shot in the belly.” I could not contain myself and although I am Chinese Thailand Phone Number List very reluctant to intervene in such circumstances, I called the station and told them that their lack of knowledge reached the point closest to ignorance and that if they had known a little about Azaña's personality, his sensitivity, his pain, his way of being and speaking, if they had read just a few paragraphs of his memoirs, they would have understood at once that that phrase could never come out of Manuel Azaña's mouth. There was speaking - it is a saying - in the radio talk show, a conservative willing to give support to all the inventions of the Franco regime, another who seemed close to the Socialist Party but holding his own, and a third who did not dare to correct the first either.
That happened in one of the few liberal stations in Spain, and that continues to happen in many of the media that educate Spaniards today without the School - many of them in the hands of national-Catholic fanatics - having served to change it, to modify a public opinion that continues to be ideologically infected by the disseminators of the General Cause of Francoism. I agree that the School is not a place of indoctrination, but indoctrination is not telling history as it was or explaining that democracy is a bad system but the best of those that have been invented so far, neither, quite the opposite, instill in the minds of children, adolescents and young people that a coup d'état is nothing more than the triumph of unreason and barbarism, that freedom, equality and fraternity are values inherent to human beings and that despotism and War are never justified and only cause destruction, pain and fear.
There is a public opinion that continues to be ideologically infected by the disseminators of the General Cause of Francoism A few years ago I listened to a provincial talk show on Cadena Ser, as if in the background, without paying much attention. Suddenly I heard one of the regular commentators say that Azaña had also had his share of things “because one could not forget that in the tragic events of Casas Viejas he was the one who ordered the day laborers to be shot in the belly.” I could not contain myself and although I am Chinese Thailand Phone Number List very reluctant to intervene in such circumstances, I called the station and told them that their lack of knowledge reached the point closest to ignorance and that if they had known a little about Azaña's personality, his sensitivity, his pain, his way of being and speaking, if they had read just a few paragraphs of his memoirs, they would have understood at once that that phrase could never come out of Manuel Azaña's mouth. There was speaking - it is a saying - in the radio talk show, a conservative willing to give support to all the inventions of the Franco regime, another who seemed close to the Socialist Party but holding his own, and a third who did not dare to correct the first either.
That happened in one of the few liberal stations in Spain, and that continues to happen in many of the media that educate Spaniards today without the School - many of them in the hands of national-Catholic fanatics - having served to change it, to modify a public opinion that continues to be ideologically infected by the disseminators of the General Cause of Francoism. I agree that the School is not a place of indoctrination, but indoctrination is not telling history as it was or explaining that democracy is a bad system but the best of those that have been invented so far, neither, quite the opposite, instill in the minds of children, adolescents and young people that a coup d'état is nothing more than the triumph of unreason and barbarism, that freedom, equality and fraternity are values inherent to human beings and that despotism and War are never justified and only cause destruction, pain and fear.