This is what the Argentine philosopher Francisco Tomas González Cabañas said playing with that statement by Kant who immortalized the adage “Hume woke me up from my dogmatic sleep” the Latin American author considers that the busy times of the democracies of our liquid modernity do not They cannot be analyzed or studied exclusively and exclusively from the academic desk but they must be listened to from the heartbeat and feeling of the citizens who have a daily struggle to survive in a society that proposes answers to problems that they do not understand. are their own and absences of reflexivity in the face of issues that are constitutive.
That our “system” has worked for hundreds of years with millions of poor excluded marginalized a third if not almost half of the population in vast areas of our land cannot be a consolation or perspective that encourages us to have a positive look
In electoral times in this transit that we have had through these Latin lands where we were born for more than years we have been fighting heroically and romantically against an economic and political imperialism with a geographical base in the north CXB Directory of our America and that has divided the world exhaustively semantically and concretely for some decades a division that however after the cold of that war still remains in our discourses in our speaking and in our being. None of our politicians Latin American progressive popular or whatever you want to call them fed by their respective small groups of intellectuals more concerned with showing off academic credentials awarded by European houses of higher education think politically and even less philosophically from our authenticity about how We could organize ourselves more evenly as a society without having to ask permission or ignore atavistic Europe which despite its crisis looks down on us due to our dependence installed on the archetypal nature of our leadership.
From the “immemoriality” which should not be understood as immorality because perhaps that term of morality does not belong to us of the conquest that we have been fighting wars that are not ours that famous apothegm of “being spoken or being thought” has advanced or rather it materialized in that we continue to be the unresolved body the filthy shreds which are traded in transactions often in cash as well as in products or thousands of us who put and continue to put the body into wars that have been fought. freed by those concepts by those interests by those categories that have nothing or very little to do with us. And in case they have to do with the empire of praxis and the weight of history with the millions of liters of blood of our ancestors spilled we should at least have the right or the possibility to ask ourselves What we share what we agree on what we take what was imposed on us far away and long ago.