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Our passion, derived from love, would make us suffer in search of the sublime. And the sublime would be nothing but what already is beautiful but expanded to the same extreme perceptions that are already hurting and making us suffer. Enter the realm of limit-experiences.
Even in such crucibles, even in periods of transition, when we get to choose between greatness and stillness like the ones I now struggle with, there seems to be a single thing that remains untainted by instability and the mortal edge of history: love.
My poetry may still be private, meant for the eyes of my friends in their happiness or sadness, and specially for my muses in my shortsighted infatuations, but they intend to become a testament to my life and my emotions.
Just like in the late imperial Rome, where it was common for generals to be acclaimed Emperors by their legions in far provinces, for them to then go back into Rome to depose their rivals, DeSantis seems to have used his successes in Florida to springboard his rise as a potential president of the United States, challenging his former chief for the American imperial elective honor. Is this the rise of Ron DeSantis from an incumbent Princeps Floridiae to the next American Imperator?
I’ve been studying a lot the life of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, not because I agree with him or his ideas (which, on the record, I oppose by principle), but because as a fellow Hispanic, a student with revolutionary ambitions, I have felt that my trip, my stay, my travel to a foreign land, has changed me forever and has developed my ideas to extents I would have never thought of.
We are conservatives because we see these little platoons, these intermediate bodies, these sovereign spheres as the living tissue of society, we see these little platoons, these intermediate bodies, these sovereign spheres, in which the virtues to sustain civilization are promoted and taught in each generation, building traditions based on moral principles and institutions that are meant to preserve the historical common good for future generations. We are also classical, for we firmly believe that there are different spheres of class to which each individual person belongs, fulfilling different roles and exercising different rights in each; a set of mutually inclusive allegiances that allow the free development of the best in our nature, both individually and socially.
There might be a strong case to classify the Austrian School as a conservative school of economic thought instead of keeping it as the libertarian doctrine it is known nowadays.
As Ecuador is no stranger to the American institutional model for its Judiciary, and even if it does not follow it formally, time has proven its highest constitutional (and some would say even political) institution, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, has fallen into the same ideological divide pattern as the Supreme Court of the United States, which, in turn, makes American Constitutional Law and the American Constitutional interpretation doctrine useful to understand the constitutional power and legal dynamics of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court in a comparative analysis between the law of both countries.
Every time I read Richard Weaver’s magnum opus, Ideas Have Consequences, there is a sentence, written in one of the last chapters of the book, that really catches my attention: “It is not a little disquieting to realize that in… Continue Reading →
point its main debility: the only requirement to disarm it is to eliminate its separation of powers, since that doctrine is what allows the optimization and unchecked growth of its exercise of power.
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