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There are more and more individuals who are greatly disturbed by the state
The debate about the correspondence between knowledge and reality goes back to the origins of philosophy, more than 2,500 years ago. Saint Thomas Aquinas believed that truth exists and is linked to God, Nietzsche considered it a human construct, Foucault criticized the idea of 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, although in M.Á.R.’s case he is a woman. We can think about this case for 500 years and 2,000 years, and that will not change the fact that the press release was sent in which the Public Prosecutor’s Office alluded to the crimes committed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso’s friend against the public treasury. On Sunday afternoon, Judge Manuela Carmena explained on the TV show hosted by the woman who lives with this year’s Planeta Award winner that the ruling against Álvaro García Ortiz is very bad for our democracy. For you really, this statement is true. Although there are more and more citizens for whom the word democracy (another word that has extinguished 2,500 candles) no longer represents freedom, equality, majority rule, social justice, brotherhood, participation, or respect for minorities, they do not find meaning in defending it at any cost. They have no shortage of reasons to be disappointed. Many of these are the same people who find the state so annoying and who find laughable the anarcho-capitalist ideas of figures like Javier Miley, who won elections by ripping institutions off the flow chart and then took a medal from the supposed winner of the mess. We may ponder this question for another couple of millennia, but it will not change the fact that the Friend of the IDA, like many award winners, prefers not to be held accountable or pay taxes. There have been stingy people since the origins of the police.
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She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in marketing from the London School of Communication, and specializes in consumerism and mass culture. He started at Diario de León and at La Voz de Galicia. Author of the book “I want and I cannot.” A History of the Stately People of Spain (Blackie Books). Always read the comments.
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