Libertad y responsabilidad
A propósito de la "traición de los intelectuales" y de lo que se viene comentando sobre las plataformas y asambleas que se han sumado a la campaña electoral, creo que Arnold Kling da en el clavo:
"The trick to having freedom without responsibility is to get paid without having to worry about where the money comes from. Most professors do not worry about fundraising or attracting tuition-paying students. "
Los "alter-mundialistas" sustentan un discurso irracional con el apoyo de una "academia" establecida. Esta academia, este círculo intelectual que ofrece su blindado prestigio a los anti-neo-liberales, se suman a ellos para lanzar invectivas contra la "dictadura del mercado" demostrando un profundo desprecio por los que, disfrutando de menos libertades, cargan con la responsabilidad de mantenerlos:
"The professors, artists, and others in the creative class of high-freedom, low-responsibility occupations are dependent for their survival and well-being on people who exercise much more responsibility with somewhat less freedom. Moreover, their ability to enjoy material comfort without having to engage in unpleasant labor depends on a system of free markets that the leftist ideology would destroy.
Freedom Without Responsibility may feel like a natural ideology for a cloistered academic. That does not make it an intelligent approach for public policy. Academics should correct for their natural biases by broadening their understanding of alternative points of view and by understanding the larger economic system. Adherence to any ideology, including liberalism, without question or re-examination, is what is really stupid."
Y es que esta Asamblea de Ungidos (y aquí y aquí), dándole la espalda a la realidad, resume su visión alucinada de nuestro pais en un manifiesto que sólo en la forma resulta digno (ejercen un derecho fundamental). El fondo, dogmático, es un ejemplo de irresponsabilidad que sólo persigue, como alguien comenta, una subvención, el dinero de otros. Su libertad, en suma.
