Controlled indignation. Response to David Jiménez Torres

Dear David: I would have liked to write an article so serene at your age and, why not say it, so patriotic, because, in effect, patriotism is the desire to change your homeland for better. Unfortunately, my generation was only excited about what was then in the ideological market, which after the French 68 and dying Franco, was a kind of totalitarian redemption, a red revolution that, paradoxically, passed through the temporary installation of the " bourgeois democracy "; that is, of democracy. I believe that youth moves, in the absence of political experience, for fashions and instinct. Luckily for your generation, you must choose between two fashions: a minority: disappointed liberalism and the lack of illusions about human nature, although not about politics and illusion; Another majority: the political illusionism of the left who "wants everything and wants it now." I know that not everyone on the left is so imbecile, but the idea is; And it encourages the left -handed electron paradox, as Asimov said of all electrons. The most right -handed liberals usually leave left -handed illusion, so, more than healthy, we are successfully vaccinated or fever survivors. You are better.

But not immune to illusion as a political category, that to which Ortega refers to the brilliant appointment that opens your article. Years ago I had a debate in Albarracín with Mario Vargas Llosa about Ortega. I had recently reread the political texts and speeches of him (editorial alliance) and was scandalized to see so much brilliance dedicated to such a resounding failure as that of the Second Republic, in whose advent so much part had his vanity. Mario defended him, I believe, for that exciting will that encourages in every intellectual under the spotlights. The failure of the Second Republic comes from the failure of the Melquíades Álvarez Reform Party, in which Ortega and Azaña stood out, which was the natural rod of regenerationism and that, as you say, should have been integrated into the restoration system. To change it from within, it is supposed, although it was not possible and none of the parties were very interested in the other. Now it is easy to see that failure; Then nobody could see him.

However, there is a difference between what could have been the PR in the restoration and the group in defense of the Republic: the type of illusion they cultivated or offered public opinion. The first was a patriotic illusion of reform; The second, a homeland conceived as utopia. The first could have worked. The second was condemned to fail as a policy. But, in spite . The illusion understood as a predisposition to change, to renew the political institutions of a country, starting with its national or historical constitution, is not a guarantee of anything but is a requirement for everything. The bad thing is when the illusion is, in itself, political option, when we cannot conceive politics without illusion. More precisely: without illusion of concrete party, because illusion in abstract, even as activating frustration or active negativity, there will always be.

There is something biological in the illusion, more difficult in which he sees decline his passage through life than in which he begins to be seen as the rising part of social life.But the ideological factor is more important, how things should be, apart from how they are.I believe that in the analysis of the Movement of the Puerta del Sol, volitional or intention factors over the real and verifiable prevail.And that it is impossible for those who have not lived on the 13m of 2004 to relive it this May 21.But it is also necessary that those who have lived similar events to them blind the similarities and do not notice the differences.Let's try.

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The basic similarities appear in that it is the extreme left, always with Etarras affinities, the fulminant of the explosion, even if IU and, above all, the PSOE, those who take advantage of the expansive or electoral wave. I read that in Carlos's program I see 7 a spokesman for the mutineers of Sol was dating without furrows the compromising political questions until Centeno asked him about Bildu: if he had camping with them people of the proetar rope or if they expected it so . To which the spokesman said that he did not know, but that it would be an honor to receive them. A historical Batasuno appears in LD as one of the coordinators of the camping. And, most importantly, Bildu- that is, says that the political sense of the Sun camp coincides greatly with his. The extreme left since the transition has been Etarra or Pro-Etarra. And the left has looked with sympathy or envy, sometimes with fraternal resentment, ETA crimes. They are what, in many cases, they do not dare to be.

It has been said and it is evident that the economic program of the indignadites is identical to that of IU.I have published that it would only be possible to start it under a strong communist dictatorship.But we must add that it is also the closest thing that fits the ETA economic program, except for the Euskaldún excipient, which in other parts of Spain would be an element of checkist identification associated with the red or separatism.And there is no Spanish patriotism, even as the theoretical principle, in a political action that the enemy terrorists of our nation can assume.Something that is aesthetically intuitive, the mugre batsunoid in sun, can be ethically and politically deductible.After all, being anti -system in a liberal sense, looking for more freedom, is not compatible with being anti -system so that the system still has the system.

For not lengthening anymore: is it possible that the debate opened by the Sun's movement reduces something positive for the cause of freedom, especially among young people?It is.It was for the Reds of the 70s. But just because there were people like Aron, Revel and others who radically rejected May 68. I think the task of mature liberals is to maintain our positions so that one day they can be shared by which, fatally, they will stumble with the nebula of cheap desires or the stone of hurtful manipulations.

The basis of liberalism is distrust in the human being, because it always tends to abuse its power.To avoid this, we must create legal and political institutions that defend individuals from the illusions of the mass.The liberal illusion lies in defending personal freedom against any other illusion.Because, dear David, in politics collective illusions are usually fatal.Therefore, all indignation not controlled by reason and experience is worrying.In any case, thanks for your article, which has forced me not to forget the unforgettable.