The text critically analyzes the book removal phenomenon in Florida schools, arguing that the debate is often framed ideologically rather than addressing the underlying issues of societal inability to confront reality and the limitations of ideology in solving complex problems.
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We are going to refer here in a timely and precise manner to a fact that is increasingly frequent
in information that circulates on the Internet and is published in the media that has
to do with the withdrawal of books in secondary education centers. In principle, I am going to refer
to a fact that has to do with The withdrawal of books, the withdrawal a euphemism The
withdrawal of books in secondary schools in the schools of the state of Florida
schools secondary schools centers primary schools in the state of Florida
of the Florida specifically in in in the United States H of course H This is a problem that
can be approached from many points of view and naturally the solution to a problem
always depends on how that problem is posed and in many cases This is not a problem for
anyone I want to say that the removal of books from educational centers, far from being a
problem for anyone, is a solution or even the prevention of future problems. Naturally,
all of this will depend on how you look at the reality that we are trying to solve in some cases.
or in other cases of complicating depending on how you look at it, but the fundamental fact that
the approach that we are going to formulate requires us to do here is a headline, a headline that has appeared
in a certain media that is a periphrasis of other equivalents. definitively
says the following schools in Florida in the United States withdrew thousands of books, not one or two
but thousands of books last year including Orwell's 1984 and A Clockwork Orange it is clear
when faced with an approach to a headline of this nature says Well they withdrew What It means
they withdrew, it means that they censored, they prohibited the proscription of an Inquisition, and
naturally, this already lends itself to all kinds of interpretations and debates, and from the point
of view that is adopted, well, I insist, we will place ourselves in one ideology or another, but here we go. to do
something different from what is commonly done when faced with this type of events, when
these events are raised, an ideological solution is always proposed, which is to say that if someone removes some
books from an educational center, they incur an act of censorship in an act of repression. of
teaching, that is what the adversaries think from a determined and defined ideological position,
those who promote this type of events, what they propose is simply the solution
to a future problem, those books must be removed because those books are contrary to the education
that those educational centers They intend to exercise or impose the issue is that until that moment those
books were part of the library of those centers or the study programs and from
a certain moment on they are removed. Why from a certain moment on they are removed?
What are the reasons? that come into force at a certain moment why until that moment the
books were not withdrawn And from that moment the books are withdrawn and we are not talking about one or
two books but thousands of books According to the news, I am not there to count them or to
make the inventory I make an interpretation of the news I am not going to present opinions here no I do not
give opinions I give interpretations opinion is one of the forms of ignorance be
said on numerous occasions before me and here I repeat it I recite it I repeat, opinion
is one of the forms of ignorance, opinion is an interpretation that is made from
insufficient knowledge of reality and is based above all on impressions. Here we are going to
make an interpretation that goes beyond ideologies and that in some way reflects Why
people behave in this way because people remove books from educational centers invoking
a deterioration in the reading of those books the classics used to tell us that HM there is no book,
no matter how bad it is, that it does not have some good things but of course This is a very sophistic argument,
it is also often said that traveling towards prudent people was what Cervantes said in many of his
works, not without irony. There are people who have traveled a lot and prudence is nowhere to be seen.
There is People who read a lot of books and their intelligence is not seen, nor is it seen in those
people, nowhere is it said that they are intelligent, asymptomatic, well, I agree.
There are also people who are mature, asymptomatic, their maturity is not noticeable at all, but apart from
all this, what is really surprising is that this withdrawal of thousands of books from
educational centers is carried out in the name of Democracy, that is what really H It can
be more disturbing or more shocking because it gives the impression that sometimes freedom is
a threat to democracy or that democracy becomes an enemy of human freedom
. So this oxymoronic approach between democracy and Freedom is very worrying,
it is very disturbing because democracy basically pretends to be or intended
to be a form of government within which human beings could coexist, sharing their
different freedoms in a relatively regulated manner and in a relatively balanced manner
in such a way as to ensure coexistence to all. change of balancing or making compatible
different ways of exercising and understanding freedom naturally in the United States this
can be even more shocking From a certain point of view and perfectly
understandable from other points of view it can be shocking because, as some people
argue An approach of this nature can violate or question the first
amendment to the US Constitution, by virtue of which no ideology
, political or religious belief, no ideological or religious belief can be imposed on
all others or can be imposed on the others and even even less counting on the approval of the
laws of the parliament of the senate of Congress and of the political options, that's what they said,
that is to say, that is not allowed, it is not allowed that there is a religion that is more official than others that
in fact is official compared to others nor that there is an ideology that is above the others,
this in theory but in practice it happens because in practice democracy has in
fact become an ideology compared to other alternative ideologies to democracy itself and that in the
past have tried to constitute themselves into political systems or organizations and that in the future
they can naturally do so again, we are very far today from sharing that
very publicist and propaganda statement of Fukuyama by virtue of which democracy is
the end of history, not history. History does not stop admiring any system of government
and evidently today we see a series of facts around us, it is not necessary to read the press,
just go out on the street or go to work if you have a job and observe that sometimes it seems sometimes
it seems It seems that freedom is the enemy of Democracy that individual freedom is
the enemy of State Democracy or that eh democracy functions as if it were a threat
to freedom or an enemy to freedom of course H this vision this eh sometimes seems like a
Mirage or a Sometimes it seems like a reality but it is certainly not at all equivalent
to an Oasis. It is a situation that can be very disturbing. Another of the problems. Another
of the questions that current democracies confront us with is what
democracies try to solve all the problems HM proposing a coexistence between ideologies
and a dialogue between ideologies but sometimes ideologies are not enough material,
they are not enough perspective, they are not enough content to solve problems, sometimes
ideologies instead of solving problems complicate, for that reason I have said many times
that I do not speak in the name of any ideology, I do not speak in the name of any philosophy and I do not speak
in the name of any religion, I speak in the name of the knowledge that I have, which will be
better or worse, sufficient or insufficient. but I do not submit, I do not subordinate my knowledge
to an ideology or a religion or even a philosophy that seems to me to be the three genres,
ideology, religion and philosophy, the three genres of advertising and of emotionally organizing
collective ignorance. No, it is not a field that resolves us, eh. Rather, the problem is that philosophies,
religions and ideologies, far from solving the problems, have galvanized them,
exacerbated them and placed them in contexts whose structural development is more difficult.
to resolve that its genesis, that is, when a problem is developed structurally, is
much more difficult to resolve than when it is in a nascent or latent state and philosophies,
ideologies and religions often lead to fundamentalisms that discuss
H contrary positions ideologies contrary religions contrary contrary philosophies
but they do not discuss their own foundations that they refuse to question it in such a way that
they evolve from a dogmatism and sometimes they do not even evolve because any evolution
can involve a revision of those foundations an analysis of their dogmas and of course no
religion whatsoever philosophy, no ideology is willing to question its own dogmas
, the problem that in my opinion democracy has in the 21st century is that it has bet everything on
ideologies and considers that any solution to any problem goes through a dialectic
of ideologies that has to lead necessarily in a synthesis or in an agreement
between those ideologies And this is not always possible and I would even say more. I would say that the solution to
real problems is not in ideologies but rather in scientific executions, that is,
science is what gives us allows us to know reality, ideologies are ultimately nothing more
than the emotional organization of collective ignorance, just as religions are and
philosophies are also through phantasmagorical and metaphysical configurations,
and of the type that you want to disguise, then of course H How confront the problem
of education from ideological positions in my opinion Not from religious positions in
my opinion no And from philosophical positions in my opinion Nor because I insist ideology religion
and philosophy are three different ways of calling the same thing by three different names which
is an emotional intervention in people's lives, of course you will tell me. Well, but
everything is an emotional intervention in people's lives. Well, there are some things that are
more emotional than others, of course you can make an emotional interpretation of music but but You
can know what a fourth interval is or what a diatonic scale is, you can know what
a key signature is or you can solfeg In the bass clef in the fourth or you can solfeg In the key of C in
the third of course the latter is no longer It's as exciting as simply listening to Gustav Maller's adjeto
from his fifth symphony. The same thing happens with literature. We can get excited reading
Pedro Páramo Páramo or we can know what a novel articulated with the technique
of the drama of seasons consists of, of course. completely different questions, we can get excited
reading the Canterburg Tales and Go Don Quixote. But we can also know what a
novel with a parade of characters consists of. Of course, we can measure time and space, but if we know what
a chronotope is in the Byzantine novel, we already know. We place it in a very different context, which is to say
that stating that everything is ideology does not solve any problem but simply makes it impossible
or disables the possibility of developing scientific options or scientific solutions
to problems that are only intended to be solved ideologically, a problem
that cannot be solved ideologically. never where ideology intervenes and where religion intervenes and
where philosophy intervenes, problems are not resolved, they become complicated, they radicalize, they galvanize,
they become situations that lead to dead ends whose only door
can often be the only escape. violence and a
very unconvincing violence. To put it in a very mild way, we are going to read
some fragments of these news items that have circulated in the media about
this fact and we will see that democracy cannot be the The last cartridge of Peace is to say that
democracy cannot be that sedation of the State to lead to a totalitarianism typical of
globalization and. If any of this is democracy then it is probably because we have already lost
sight of it and also of heart but Well, that will be a question that the
generations already born in the 21st century will have to face. This will not affect me. I do not believe that events will change.
rush so much nor for me to last so long it is not necessary to live excessively it is something
we have to count on one day we will disappear and no one will miss us at all
we are not essential let's go to the text of these media I insist that the headline says
Florida schools They withdrew thousands of books last year, including 1984 and A Clockwork Orange.
First of all, it must be noted that books are one thing and literary works are another.
Books are bound contents, but literary works are something else, so
we cannot consider that the books that are removed here are due to the fact that they are books
literary works and I warn that Orwell's 1984 is a novel but it is not a not literature it is not a
literary work In any case it is the script for a cinematographic work or the content for another thing
but Orwell's 1984 is not a literary work, it is a novel but it cannot be read as literature
because it neither has the ingredients that literature requires nor does it have sufficient quality for it to be
considered literature that is a story it is a fable it is a narrative dystopian, you can
give it whatever qualifications you want But that's not literature, huh A Clockwork Orange I'm not even going
to consider what that is, the quote says, the text of this reference since July
2021, 4,561 books have been removed from school libraries in Florida. state of Florida in
the United States according to pen America, Florida school districts eliminated around 700
books from school libraries in school year 2324 here they already repeat the same but with
different figures according to the list of the Florida department of education, that is, different
institutions They give different references for America, a group defending freedom of expression. That is
the business card that presents freedom of expression well, but freedom of expression
is not the same as freedom of reception. You can have freedom of expression
to have genitiv m yes You have a mouth, yes, you have a speech system to say things, you can
say things, but freedom of expression is not the same as freedom of reception. You may
have freedom to express what you want, but you may not have the freedom to receive what
because perhaps you want to receive something. that you cannot receive, perhaps you
want to receive water but it is not given to you, it is denied to you. You may want to read Don Quixote
but perhaps you do not even know him, so it is difficult for you to want to read something that
you do not know, but I already warn you that ignorance has destroyed many more literary works than
censorship, of course to say that someone is a supporter of freedom of expression, that is a toast to the
sun because if freedom of reception cannot be assured, it does not matter to have freedom of
expression, you can say what you want, but if What you say goes nowhere
because you do not have the means to make it reach beyond a table conversation in a
university classroom, which is the same as preaching in the desert or a media outlet
that is intercepted or neutralized by others. media by Bot farms that
can simply be neutralized by multiplying by 100 messages contrary to those that someone broadcasts
on a social network is that it does not matter absolutely, that is, the maximum of freedom of expression can
coincide with the maximum of the nullity of reception of these These are issues and facts that obviously cannot be
ignored, therefore talking about freedom of expression can be equivalent to
talking about nothing because someone in the desert has maximum freedom of expression, someone on a
desert island has maximum freedom of expression but has a minimum. freedom of reception
because he does not receive anything nor does he have anyone who receives anything at all of what he emits then this
group the pen America that declares itself defender of freedom of expression also those who
withdraw books are Defenders of freedom of expression but of freedom of expression
that coincides with the foundations of their own ideology they do not want the freedom of expression
of others So they refuse to be recipients of the expression of others they give
freedom to others to say what they want but they do not allow within your group than within
of your freedoms, the freedoms of others intervene, of course, this is very much from the United States. Eh,
this is very from the Anglo-Anglo-German society. You have the freedom to do whatever you want, except
in my house. Eh, of course, from there, the freedom of others reaches where it begins. the freedom
of the other neighbor but but but where does it begin, that is, exactly where is that freedom spatially and temporally demarcated
because that phrase says absolutely nothing You have freedom
of expression less in my house You have freedom of expression less in my university you have
freedom of expression less in my country you have freedom of expression less on my planet you
have freedom of expression less in my galaxy of course it depends on where we are delimiting the terrain of
freedom of expression So this institution a group defending freedom of expression
but freedom of expression Where and for what eh it is estimated that 4,561 books have been removed from
Florida school libraries since June 2021 of course we have two figures given well some
of the titles removed They are works of classic literature including A Clockwork Orange well if the
A Clockwork Orange is a work of classical literature I am eh Anyway Eh I won't say a
white blackbird but of course H come on it could perfectly well be a cockatoo I mean that A
Clockwork Orange is to classical literature what Homer's Iliad is to a code of bars
But well, if this is the concept of literature that is had in the United States, I am not going
to discuss it, I am not going to discuss it, it is what it is and go ahead and say works of classic literature
including A Clockwork Orange Slaughterhouse and I know why sings the caged bird, that is, these
are works of classical literature, of course, I had to rehearse this scene before so that when
this moment came, I wouldn't throw myself on the floor with a fit of laughter, obviously, so after many
rehearsals I have managed to reach this moment of del video and read this without having a fit of laughter
that ends up lying on the floor Because if works of classical literature are A Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse 5 and I know why the caged bird sings Let me tell you that I play the piano better
than Rubinstein Of course, and you are breaking down on the floor, and with good reason, obviously, because playing the
piano, I don't know when, when I wipe it with a cloth to clean the dust, not because, well, this is
the concept of classical literature that they have in the United States, eh, I mean. hold on
to your seat eh so continue la la the news says the removal of books follows a law that allows
parents or local residents to request the removal of any book that depicts or
describes sexual content or is pornographic eh I won't tell them anything If they knew that There is something
called La celestina or Lazarillo de Tormes or the Andalusian lush woman. Well, the Andalusian lush woman or La
pícara Justina, those are big words, or there is a character in Don Quixote called maritornes,
no, well, this would be the last straw. The Florida governor's office has
previously said that the law and quote protects children from indoctrination and gives parents quote
the ability to object to inappropriate materials. Sure, but what are inappropriate materials that
a particular ideology belief philosophy religion group typifies? codifies or justifies or
legitimizes as inappropriate and that another group will perfectly be able to justify or legitimize as
appropriate. Here there is a dispute between philosophy a confrontation between religions a dialectic
of ideologies So which one is right Which one is the most reasonable What is the
that must be legally imposed because obviously the one that has the most force at a given moment, the
reason is directly proportional to the force available to assert that reason,
that is, if someone believes that they are more right than the other, they can believe it, but if It does not have the
physical means of the legal executive means or of material force to impose that reason, it is as
if it did not have it, that is, it is the opposite, it is an idealism, it is postulating an idealism or simply
believing in moral supremacy in a kind of moral superstition. rather than supremacy, that is
to say, I believe that because I have certain ideas I am better than my colleague or I am better than my colleague.
neighbor or am I better than my ideological, political, religious or philosophical adversary, of course, that is
simply the search for group therapy. In short, the need to join a
group to be part of an ideological, philosophical, religious group to feel safer in
life and to face certain problems so that outside of that group the human being
would feel weaker but what are the inappropriate materials because obviously the
matchstick circulated through the Spanish inquisition without any problem until the 15th century
when it was perceives it as a Voltairean reading. That is to say that the same work experiences
completely different reception processes depending on the ideologies, that is, the emotional organization
of collective ignorance, as provided by the fact that Don Quixote has not been a
work that was largely censored in our country. time is because most people have not read it
nor are they going to read it and that of course is a great advantage for Don Quixote but it is another disadvantage from
the point of view of ignorance because as I have said previously ignorance has destroyed
many more literary works than censorship this is censorship removing books from a school is censorship
because obviously it depends on how you look at it for some it is not censorship because the books are not destroyed
for others it is censorship because their dissemination is prevented So everything about what is not
talked about Not necessarily because the intention is different, what is clear is that the debate
is open now. Well, I also tell you one thing, in current times, do not talk about censorship too
happily because it is enough for something to be censored for it to be published. in all the media that
has been censored, then it is very paradoxical that it is said that this has been censored and it turns out that it is
published everywhere, as some newspaper frequently says, these are the
most important secrets of such a spy group, not of or of the intelligence services of such a country Not
now it turns out that the intelligence services of this or that country have documents that are revealed and
published by the press, it is not very curious to discover the secrets of this and that Well, if they are
secrets, they cannot be discovered then Of course, it is still curious that in our time we talk
about censorship daily and that news, those facts, those
materials that have been censored are made public, that is not censorship, censorship is something that is not even
talked about. That is the true and true censorship is that they say that so-and-so's
account on social networks was closed, they have censored it and it turns out that the contents of that account
seem to be reproduced in other places on the internet and so many more people see them, which is not
to say the best. What can happen to a book is that it is censored, criticized or spoken ill
of, because obviously the more people talk about someone, even if it is to denigrate, even if it is
to detract, they are promoted much more, in fact, the so-called detractors on the Internet are called
. called haters who in reality They are detractors are the largest and most powerful
advertising agents of what they try to condemn is is is is one of the fundamental drivers of
advertising that most people do not understand and that is that advertising converts
adversaries in the main promoters of that content that they intend to condemn because
they spread it everywhere. In fact, the habit and custom that people have to spread
news that they dislike among their friendly circles is one of the main engines
used by the press and ideologies to activate precisely these people who in
reality should not promote this type of news and who nevertheless do it, that is to say that when they see
a news that they dislike or with which they disagree, the first thing they do is
send it to all their contacts Of course, that means an impressive publicist multiplication, so
if the opponents of a certain fact are those who advertise it the most, those who
should advertise it have extraordinarily impressive saved work.
Of course, people actually behave, I won't say how because you can already assume it, but it is that he
human being is the easiest animal to domesticate, that is, really, human being is the
easiest creature to domesticate that there is, easiest to domesticate that there is, it is surprising and the
text continues, look, Florida has been at the forefront of a national confrontation in the United States.
about how race, history and sexuality can be taught in schools, that is, they are
still in an era, which is that of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was an era obsessed with a
lot of prejudices, the prejudice of race and the ethnic superiority of one against another
the harm of the occult versus the uneducated believing oneself to be a Selected minority in the name of which
a Selected minority can despise the masses this is Genuine from Ortega and gazet to say the problem of
sex that reached from Lutheran Puritanism an absolutely insuperable radicalization and extremism
since then, that is to say, all the amount of prejudices that the so-called enlightenment with a
completely falsified concept of rationalism manages to develop and in which we
still exist today because today we suffer from the pathologies of the Enlightenment in an extreme way. What
is at the origin of all these problems is actually a
rationalist fundamentalism and fundamentalism that has not yet been overcome and that hampers educational problems, that is, teaching
race, but we are still talking about race, in Germany this word cannot even be mentioned. sexuality
in schools, that is to say, it gives the impression that we are going to end up emasculated as
origins in in the Middle Ages, that is not to say, as we do not know what to do with sex, because that organ is destroyed,
that is, in August, the text continues. A group of prominent publishers, authors and
parents sued Florida education officials alleging that the law allowing
local residents to remove books available in libraries violated the
United States' First Amendment, that of freedom of belief and of and Of ideas, in short, there is an open dispute, not
in these questions, in these questions, however, denying sexuality implies declaring impotence
to know how to manage it because of course that is as if, when faced with a headache, we propose
the guillotine as a solution instead of Aspirin, of course, eh If you can't take aspirin because you are
metabolically incompatible with aspirin, they say, well, it's more compatible with the guillotine
, so your head hurts. Yes, my head hurts. Look, go to the guillotine. We'll
cut it off. That way it won't hurt anymore Ah well that's a
good idea well if that's a good idea turn it off and let's go then of course eh Since we don't know what
to do with sex or with issues related to sex well then we eliminate books from
schools because there is sexuality in them, of course the problem is that sexuality is everywhere
and let's not talk about the use that cinema, advertising and all types of human activities
make of sexuality as a bait to keep people perfectly dazzled anton trained
or completely drugged. Not because of these and other issues, then of course these
types of facts do more than demonstrate the capacity that a society has to solve problems, the
only thing it demonstrates is the helplessness that that society has to be unable to meet
the demands of life and confront them and then they say they say some people there is not
a person quoted here who states we are concerned that narrow ideological views have
an excessive influence by eliminating access to books that are critical for students in
schools Well I I think that their problems would be solved if they read Don Quixote but I think that
when faced with Don Quixote they have two problems, one that they do not know exists and secondly that they do not
have adequate interpreters for a reading of Don Quixote. I am completely sure that these
two problems are the main ones, I think they don't know that Don Quixote exists. And secondly,
of course, since they don't know that Don Quixote exists, I don't think they have enough human resources to
explain Don Quixote in educational centers, so of course, for that reason, they consider that
classical literature is slaughterhouse 5 A Clockwork Orange or I don't know why the bird sings in
I know why the caged bird sings, that is, this one knows why the caged bird sings, well, hey,
it must be interesting to know why the caged bird sings, etc., so add these books,
they offer students the opportunity to see themselves and also to learn. empathize with
others, they must confuse books with a mirror, no. That is to say, books offer
the reader the opportunity to see themselves and learn. And to empathize with others, that is
like saying well, I don't know that by looking at a brick one reaches a degree of self-absorption that allows you
to come into contact with cosmic forces and everything, that is, they can say what they want because it is the same
as not saying anything, that is, a book is not a mirror, a book is not a narcissistic exercise, here the
only thing that is reveals are the basically narcissistic and idealistic obsessions of these people who do not know
what to do with reality. The problem with idealists is that they do not know what to do with reality.
They have a reality in front of them that may completely surpass them and so
they look for resources. idealists to justify their ideologies legitimize their religions or simply
further dogmatize their philosophies keep in mind that every ideology every philosophy and every philosophy
always tends towards idealism they always end up in idealism they always end up postulating an
ideal dogmatism by virtue of which If we all do this the world will be better because they always have the
damn Mania ideologies ideologies philosophies and religions to organize themselves to say that
this is better than what exists outside our religion outside our philosophy outside
our ideology that is to say eh this is what they have in common some propose idealisms that ignore
reality completely and then they build ghosts they build divinities they build
great brothers they build monads leviathans perpetual engines eh transcendental entities
that are going to enlighten us and improve our living conditions and reality remains there,
not in In short, that is, the problem of idealism is that it ignores reality. The problem
with idealism is that it does not see the reality in front of it, that is, it is not able to interpret
reality. Reality completely surpasses it. It does not know what to do with reality. In a word,
it is the problem of idealists. that they do not know what to do with reality and what
happened to the Enlightenment is that it is ultimately alienated by idealism and by a completely idealized idea
of I alism that incurs a pseudo rationalism, the Enlightenment actually does not know what to do with
reality that is before him because he does not have the resources to confront it. In short,
those resources are better exposed in the Spanish Baroque in the Spanish 10th century and of course it is said
that the graphic adaptations of Orwell's 1984 or that Ana Fran's diary were withdrawn from schools
in Florida and then a person speaks as a spokesperson for a
state Department of Education who declares in a newspaper that the elimination of books from
school libraries does not constitute a prohibition, well, it constitutes a prohibition on having them present
and available in libraries. Of course that's like saying no, he's dead, he's stopped breathing.
Well, man, we can explain reality metaphorically, but that's a sophistry. It's not
exactly an explanation. This is an ideological explanation, not an explanation of
real events. In other words, if you want it, eh I'm stupid Well then I pretend to be stupid And you
save your ego no eh As la la says that song that seems to me to be from an anthology by Pach Andión we can
be as honest as you want to believe well okay okay we can be as honest Whether
you want to believe that is what happens to ideologies, philosophies and religions,
we can be as honest as you want. Now if you tell me that the elimination
of books from a school library is not a prohibition, then I don't know. What is a prohibition
But well, perhaps we have a different concept of prohibition, surely any
sophistic ideology can justify this as not being a prohibition? No, it is not a prohibition
to access a book, if a book is not in a library, it is not a prohibited book. Not simply
It's a book that isn't there anymore, I say no. So when someone dies, we don't say so-and-so died,
no, so-and-so stopped breathing. Well, he stopped breathing. Hey, what do you want me to say? There are no
banned books in Florida, it is stated, and sexually explicit materials. No. They belong
to the schools eh And the sexually latent materials Yes, many things can also be done from latency,
of course here we have the Freudian unconscious, meaning that on the one hand
we read Foucault and say that power represses and on the other hand we defend here whom Foucault
attacks but we do it in the name of Foucault of course this is a very surprising thing the truth is once
again the extreme activists are cited and here he mentions an ideology I am not going to mention
the ideology because I don't care one or the other for me all ideologies are the same
ideologies extreme ideological activists push The hoax of the book ban on
Floridians say some the better question is why these activists continue to fight to expose
children to sexually explicit materials in other contexts well This is a problem that
they will have to solve I H cannot reduce the solution of a problem to the dialectic of
two opposing ideologies the problem goes beyond the dialectic of ideologies the problem is in
another situation it is in another context the problem is in a society that does not knows how to think beyond
its ideologies, the problem is in a society that has reduced science to
ideology and that is not capable of emancipating itself from an ideology to organize itself politically in
a democracy that is increasingly ideological and less intelligent and that does not It is capable of emancipating itself from
an ideology to develop scientific research that is increasingly more ideological and less
intelligent, that is, ideology has taken over everything, it has taken over politics and it has made Democracy
another ideology against others and it has intervened in science. making science
an ideology against other possibilities and we are in that field and naturally Well, here it is cited
from now on in the article and a specific ideology is directly attacked, which
is accused of all the evils And of all the problems of the world eh And this is over from
reading it Because if I read it you will say that I defend a certain ideology if I don't read it
you will say that I defend the opposite and so on Well, while they argue for a while they entertain themselves and
leave me alone, no, then books that present themes of Adolescent depression and sexual abuse
such as books titled 13 Reasons Why the advantages of being invisible are also eliminated from some
schools and then what I mentioned before the graphic novel adaptations uh the
graphic novel adaptations Sorry from the diary of Ana Fran or Orwell's 1984 were also eliminated.
I mean, notice that there are graphic adaptations, that is, they don't even read the texts
but simply see them in comic format in T-format, which is why they called this
classic literature. Hey, touch your feet. Just like multiple works by the horror writer Stephen
King, that is, Stephen King is also within classical literature. When a country considers
that this is literature, what concept does it have of reality? When a country does not have a defined idea
of what literature is, it cannot have an explicit idea of what freedom is and that country
is the one that is taken as a reference for the idea of freedom for the rest of the planet, start
running, what I don't know is where. Don't ask me because I don't know either, no. I know if other galaxies
are habitable but of course under this concept of freedom and under this concept of literature we do not
have a possible future neither in politics nor in the theory of literature. But well, with the theory
of literature they can do without politics anymore. I know one of the ways for
books to be removed from school shelves
under Florida law is that parents and local residents can read aloud
passages from the books. that seek to challenge At school board meetings And if
the board stops reading due to explicit content the school must suspend use
of that material, that is, they must, let's say, disavow the use of that material. In other words, they do
public readings not to interpret the text but to C icate passages that may be objectionable,
which implies a certain but ideological, non-scientific interpretation, that is, instead
of explaining scientifically, passages that may be controversial from the point
of view of their ideas, philosophies or beliefs, what they do is automatically censor things
in order to say, in this way, let's say, I'm not going to say abort things because then
those that were asleep until this moment will be altered. No, we're not going to talk about abortion here
because then we'll arm ourselves even more, but what they do is remove the seeds, they exterminate them.
In other words, remove the seed. Exterminate means remove the seed. Suppress the seminal fruit. Let's
repeal the seminar. In short, close the Academy. which is the next step and Convert
schools into sectarian therapy centers union therapy centers but not into teaching centers.
Of course, science requires knowing what sexuality is and also demands what it means to know
controversial sexuality, for what, well, for That when one encounters one, be prepared,
that is, because when one encounters a pedophile in life, one must know how to identify him.
Of course, hey, if we don't know what an animal is, we can't confront him if
we don't know what he is. a shark no we cannot face it if we do not know what a
feline is we cannot face a feline if we do not know what a problem is we cannot solve
that problem So of course solving a problem by suppressing its cause is a way to
prolong procrastination To do worship like this is not to say prolong failure. In short, but
above all, to ensure failure, we once again quote a co-founder of the
Florida Freedom to Read project, of course, and I wonder, to read what, because for what
you read. Even if they read Don Quixote, he declares to a certain newspaper that the best way
to fight against the removal of books from libraries is to ask each District for a
public review process and insist that each book be read in its entirety before making a decision. Why
don't you read de Balsac's human comedy or Baroja's memoirs, it would take a few
years to make a decision if you find out what you are reading. Honestly, just
by reading Don Quixote Fortunata and Jacinta or La The management already has it for
probably three decades and they would need to hire human resources to explain to them what Don Quixote is. I
give you to read the dreams that I see these people. No, they wouldn't get past the first page.
They wouldn't get past the dedication. When Quevedo says, everyone should say what they want about my book. Well,
I have said what I wanted about everyone. This would cause them to have an attack, a cardiac arrest, really,
that is not saying any statement from a Spanish Baroque writer, these people would get
scared. point allowing one person to redefine what is appropriate for
everyone's age without taking into account everyone's needs is shocking Well I don't know if it's shocking or
not but it's just bullshit bullshit the needs of an elementary school student no
they reflect the needs of a high school student etc. and they quote another person
so-and-so said he said that the State Department of Education uses language directed
like activists of an extreme ideology I will not say what ideology he is referring to it does not matter an
extreme ideology to try to silencing the opponents of the book elimination law is saying that an
ideologue uses an ideology to try to censor or silence those of the other ideology
well and science Because you all talk about ideology you all talk about religion
you all talk about philosophy But and scientific knowledge and the requirement to know a reality
in order to survive it. Where is it, we live on ideologies, there are many people who do, but
how they live badly because they live in a third semantic world because ideologies are the afterbirth
of a third. semantic world But this amuses people a lot. It really amuses them a lot.
problem The problem comes later and when the problem comes it is no longer staged on the
internet it is no longer published in the press the Tragic part of the comedy is no longer visualized it is not
advertised and of course these authors say they reject that label arguing that such a label Many
others who oppose this policy are concerned public school parents who fight for
the best interests of their children and what are the best interests of their children. Education is
the set of prejudices that adults impose on children. That is education. and
you will tell me and what and you say it You say it I say that that is what Foucault says yes it will be what Foucault says
after José Antonio Marabal has said it long before in Baroque Spain in theater and
spectacle in Baroque society and After Aristotle said it in Rhetoric, look
what discovery Foucault made, let's see or is it that now ideas, philosophies
and religions are not ways of prejudging a reality that adults impose on the youngest
throughout life? when education has been something other than a system of harms that
the elderly impose on the minors that the old impose on the young when education has been
something else yes In fact if education changes it is because the young grow old and assume their own
harm to repeat the same operation with respect to the new generations and so
on Or perhaps young people freely choose what they want to study,
younger people study what they are told And then they rebel or not against it and so on because
history is the triumph of an illegality not the confirmation of the prejudices of adults
In short then clearly all these types of approaches that provoke disputes
clearly show what the intellectual poverty of
a society like that of the United States is. that has exported to the rest of the planet its ignorance about
literature that has replaced literature with culture because the cultural studies that
today have replaced literary studies in all universities in the world are the product
of a society that has invented an ideal culture and non-existent precisely because it
has always lacked real and effective literary knowledge, culture is the invention of those
people who lack literature, the damage that the United States has done,
if you will, in the singular, to the entire education of Western democracies It is really
already unstoppable and precisely turning democracy into an enemy of
individual freedom or turning individual freedom into a threat to democracy is the great mistake
that will undoubtedly cause democracies throughout the 21st century to become the
new totalitarianism of La history but you will see that, I hope to die sooner
and it will be inevitable [Music] B and
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