Yamil Gonzales

“Quienes pueden renunciar a su libertad esencial para obtener una pequeña seguridad temporal no merecen ni libertad ni seguridad.”
— Benjamín Franklin

En solo una semana en Honduras han asesinado a por lo menos una docena de personas, entre ellas, Alfredo Landaverde y Luz Marina Paz; nos enteramos que el gobierno legalizó las extorsiones, se tomaron la libertad de pagarle a extorsionadores con nuestro dinero, el dinero de los contribuyentes; finalmente, pero no de menos importancia, nos dimos cuenta que en el congreso nacional (con minúscula), se aprobó una ley que le da al ministerio público acceso a nuestras conversaciones telefónicas, mensajes SMS y hasta correo electrónico.

¡Qué tristeza este país en el que nos tocó nacer!

En un ensayo titulado “The Tragedy of the Commons“, el biólogo Garret Hardin, popularizó el concepto de «la tragedia de los comunes», originalmente atribuído al matemático William Forster. La premisa del mismo es simple: cualquier recurso compartido (un “común”) inevitablemente se destruirá por su sobreuso.

Jonathan Buys presenta el caso del «Least Software» de una forma sintetizada y muy interesante en su artículo Principle of Least Software. A continuación el primer párrafo:

“Use only the software that you need. No more, no less. Choose one application for each task, and become an expert on that application.”

“No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011)

“The visions that we saw must have come from within us, obviously. But they did not recall anything that we had seen with our own eyes. Somewhere within us there must lie a repository where these visions sleep until they are called forth. Are the visions a subconscious transmutation of things read and seen and imagined, so transmuted that when they are conjured forth from the depths we no longer recognize them? Or do the mushrooms stir greater depths still, depths that are truly the Unknown?”

Fragmento del artículo “Seeking the magic mushroom“, escrito por Roberto Wasson y publicado en la revisa Life el 10 de Junio de 1957. (Fuente)