Mexico is experiencing a crisis of ethics.
This country is experiencing an unprecedented ethics crisis
By Bernardo Barranco V.
I was in the Zocalo on Sunday May 8, hours before the arrival of the caravan led by Javier Sicilia. Since the two thirty, with the sun lead the estrujantes heard testimony from dozens of people who also have experienced violence or family losses suffered corruption and impunity of the authorities, several times my eyes turned red and my throat tightened and tears content. They are testimonies of a fractured country: how is it possible to have come to this? "Asked a tormented father of the state of Guerrero, who is still looking for her missing daughter and angrily accused the autism of a political class in the comfort of acclimated privileges.
People were very angry, shouted thousands of throats mixed with defiance from "outside" and "die" Calderón. The painful loss of Javier Sicilia is at the same time, the experience of thousands of families torn apart and they cried losses have been charged with a country twisted. The victims are not only those who have directly experienced violence and anxiety, somehow we've all been hurt by an absurd war in Mexico has been losing ground.
We live in an ethical crisis unprecedented in this country Javier drama has triggered a huge wave of indignation and weariness social beyond the insecurity and violence that has invaded our everyday environment. This wave can become an unmanageable tsunami, according to anthropologist Roger Bartra, the implosion of the social explosion. In addition to rebuilding the social fabric, we need a common project, says Sicily, to straighten the course of a nation wound.
must maintain integrity, avoid alarmist routed in diagnostics and calmly understand the main thrust of our current situation. Javier Sicilia said those responsible for this web, "the lords" of politics, crime, and add to the money lords and gentlemen of the media. The average citizen can not absolve themselves of responsibility.
However, this is a clear loss of moral authority of the major players and leading symbolize the direction of the nation: the President, governors, legislative and judicial actors, businessmen, union leaders, hierarchies religious. There is a clear political disagreement. It is notorious marshland between the regression and the questionable performance of democratic institutions such as courts, electoral institutes, human rights, transparency, political parties, with the emergence of a culture of invisibility.
system from the main agreements are negotiated, the political reality is pricing the shares of power, deals voracious and imperfect balance. It is the realm of private interests, we are under the rule of groups whose motive is personal gain. There are only snippets, plots and political interests that are defined by electoral logic and are leading to the deconstruction of democracy itself. Drug trafficking and violence flourish because society is broken.
The relationship between ethics and politics is a very old debate, has been shunned for being one of the thorniest issues at the lack of consensus on the parameters of public debate. It's a philosophical debate that seems out of reach of our political class, intellectually poor. The idea of \u200b\u200bcrisis should refer to the crisis of values \u200b\u200band the footprints in the history of thought, namely the incessant questioning of values.
characterize our dramatic circumstances as a crisis of ethics is to take a position on the meaning assigned to ethics. In his text Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber addresses the issue by defining two vectors, first, what he called the ethics of conviction and the other, an ethic of responsibility, that is, the prospect of assuming the consequences of decisions and actions.
Political science has advanced in the theoretical field, so the Weberian proposals are, for many, simplistic. Kant is placed at the end, converges to the idea that all practical human activity should be subject to a maximum of moral imperative. Hegel rejects the political moralism and political subordination of Kantian morality, seeks to recover the historical construction of modern moral subjectivity, that is, ethics. Unfortunately, the Mexican political class does not cover these basic principles, much less the vocation of politics as service. In its extreme pragmatism, professional politicians have lost their identity, tradition and memory.
parties have been camouflaged to the extent that citizens vote more for the qualities of the candidates' convictions or political traditions. Another social responsibility has been lost anyone or anything liable for their actions. Impunity reigns. Thus the evidence about the victims of Sunday are charged, rightly, rage contained. The social movement is headed by Javier Sicilia fundamentally ethical and, of course, is highly political. Invites us to recover a lost tradition that needed further discussion of the relationship between ethics and politics, between the ethics of political responsibility and caring. Model
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