Cum merge guvernarea ?

Daca luam in calcul ultima sceneta, cea cu descentralizarea, guvernarea merge prost.

Dragnea: Aproape toți miniștrii se opun descentralizării. Am rugat premierul să convoace o întâlnire pentru a lămuri atitudinea lor. via hotnews Vezi stirea aici.

Este greu de stabilit ce e mai periculos in aceasta situatie ? Faptul ca proaspetii ministrii deja au o problema de autoritate in ministere ? Ca PSD, atunci când a adoptat capitolul de descentralizare din programul de guvernare, nu stia ce si cum sa gestioneze in procesul de descentralizare ? Poate este ingrijorator ca Premierul Dancila nu este in stare, nu are autoritatea de a lua decizii si de a tine piept unor argumente prezentate de ministrii refractari ?

Eu cred ca PSD are un program de descentralizare care a fost intocmit neprofesionist, in care Liviu Dragnea si-a varsat toate frustrarile ca fost ministru al dezvoltarii regionale care a esuat in a lansa descentralizarea.

 

Piata universitara

When “Free Speech” Is a Marketing Ploy by Osita Nwanevu 

On Jan. 24, it was announced that former White House adviser and Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon had accepted an invitation from University of Chicago business school professor Luigi Zingales to participate in a debate on campus. “I can hardly think of a more important issue for new citizens and business leaders of the world than the backlash against globalization and immigration that is taking place not just in America, but in all the Western World,” Zingales wrote in a statement. “Whether you agree with him or not (and I personally do not), Mr. Bannon has come to interpret and represent this backlash in America.”
Zingales and university administrators have, predictably, spent the past several weeks dealing with a backlash of their own. Over 1,000 alumni, more than 100 faculty members, the executives of student government and nearly a dozen student groups have voiced their opposition to the event in various mediums. “[W]hen speakers who question the intellect and full humanity of people of color are invited to campus to ‘debate’ their worthiness as citizens and people, ” a faculty open letter read, “the message is clear that the University’s commitment to freedom of expression will come at the expense of those most vulnerable in our community.” Off-campus, many have scorned those protesting the invitation. “The school has a long tradition of valuing free speech and thought, recognizing that a university is — wait for it — a place of ideas and learning,” the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board wrote after the announcement. “The ‘cure’ for repellent ideas, school President Robert Maynard Hutchins said generations ago, ‘lies through open discussion rather than through inhibition.’ ”

 

Eva si sarpele

The Genesis of Blame By Anne Enright

A couple of weeks ago, the pope described ‘fake news’ as being like the strategy employed by the ‘crafty serpent’ in the Book of Genesis. ‘The strategy of this skilled “Father of Lies”,’ he said in a statement aimed at both Trump and the purveyors of social media, ‘is precisely mimicry, that sly and dangerous form of seduction that worms its way into the heart with false and alluring arguments.’ Ideas of mimicry and seduction certainly wormed their way into the story of Adam and Eve over the centuries, but they are not in the original version. If even the pope misuses the word ‘seduction’ in this context, it is worth looking for the source.

Alienarea

A history of alienation By Sally Davies 

The fear of ‘alienation’ from a perceived state of harmony has a long and winding history. Western culture is replete with stories of expulsion from paradise and a yearning to return, from Adam and Eve’s departure from the Garden of Eden to the epic journey of Odysseus back to Ithaca. In the modern era, ‘alienation’ really came into its own as a talismanic term in the 1950s and ’60s. At the time, the United States was becoming increasingly affluent, and earlier markers of oppression – poverty, inequality, social immobility, religious persecution – appeared to be on the wane. Commentators and intellectuals needed a new way to characterise and explain discontent. Google’s Ngram viewer, which tracks the incidence of words in English-language books, shows ‘alienation’ rising spectacularly from 1958 to its height in 1974. But since then it has dropped like a stone. Why? Does the lexical decline of alienation suggest that the condition itself has been conquered – or merely that the context in which it made sense has now changed beyond recognition?