{"id":704,"date":"2009-12-17T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/?p=704"},"modified":"2009-12-17T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T16:44:14","slug":"por-que-orwell-importa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/12\/por-que-orwell-importa\/","title":{"rendered":"Por qu\u00e9 Orwell importa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_fLxAX4CPEFY\/Rlo5GUJNVlI\/AAAAAAAAAJM\/XINJq7OWkew\/s320\/Orwell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"151\" \/>Llegamos pr\u00e1cticamente al final de este a\u00f1o, por lo cual quer\u00eda compartir con aquellos que me acompa\u00f1aron <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/05\/memoria-de-mi-izquierda-puta-y-triste\/\">en el fruct\u00edfero intercambio de ideas en torno a la izquierda<\/a>, este texto, brillante, esclarecedor, que resume muchas de las ideas que vengo barajando hace rato. Se los dejo, primero en el idioma original (ingl\u00e9s) y luego en mi apurada y atropellada traducci\u00f3n bastante aproximativa.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States&#8221; (Orwell, 1945, <em>Notes on nationalism<\/em>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;[This perception explains] the sheer hatred of Orwell that is still to be found in some quarters. By living and writing as he did, he discredited the excuse of &#8216;historical context&#8217; and the shady alibi that there was, in the circumstances, nothing else people could have done&#8221; (Christopher Hitchens, 2002, <em>Why Orwell matters<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;La mayor\u00eda de los pacifistas o pertenencen a una oscura secta religiosa o son simplemente humanitarios que se oponen a quitar la vida y prefieren no pensar m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de este punto. Pero hay una minor\u00eda de intelectuales pacifistas cuyo verdadero motivo, aunque no lo promulguen, parece ser el odio por la democracia occidental y la admiraci\u00f3n del totalitarismo. La propaganda pacifista suele reducirse a decir que un lado es igual de malo que el otro, pero si analizamos con lupa los escritos de los j\u00f3venes intelectuales pacifistas encontramos que en ning\u00fan momento manifiestan una condena imparcial sino que se orientan casi por completo a oponerse al Reino Unido y los Estados Unidos&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;[Esta percepci\u00f3n explica] el odio puro hacia Orwell que encontramos en ciertos c\u00edrculos. Al vivir y escribir como lo hizo, rest\u00f3 credibilidad a la excusa del &#8216;contexto hist\u00f3rico&#8217; y la coartada cuestionable de que no hab\u00eda, en esas circunstancias, nada m\u00e1s que se pudiera hacer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nTextos relacionados:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/10\/la-izquierda-esta-muerta-%c2%a1viva-la-izquierda\/\">La izquierda est\u00e1 muerta, \u00a1viva la izquierda!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/05\/la-nueva-derecha-en-venezuela-relativismo-y-sofismas-para-atentar-contra-el-ciudadano\/\">La &#8220;nueva derecha&#8221; en Venezuela: relativismo y sofismas para atentar contra el ciudadano<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/09\/la-vara-de-medicion\/\">La vara de medici\u00f3n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/09\/gobierno-postmoderno\/\">El gobierno postmoderno<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Llegamos pr\u00e1cticamente al final de este a\u00f1o, por lo cual quer\u00eda compartir con aquellos que me acompa\u00f1aron en el fruct\u00edfero intercambio de ideas en torno a la izquierda, este texto, brillante, esclarecedor, que resume muchas de las ideas que vengo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/2009\/12\/por-que-orwell-importa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[65,127,66,128],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-s","tag-izquierda","tag-orwell","tag-politica","tag-totalitarismo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moebius77.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}