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    <title>America’s 250th: The empire that founded SF has a warning for us | The San Francisco Standard</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In his classic 1963 study “Imperial Spain 1469-1716,” J.H. Elliott argues that the decline of the empire was caused by a number of factors, including an economic crisis brought on by an endless procession of ill-conceived wars; an ossified society dominated by a reactionary church and clinging to dysfunctional ideals; a stagnant intellectual life characterized by a rejection of science and the Enlightenment; extreme nativism and an obsession with racial purity; a society divided between the very rich and the vast majority, who were very poor; rampant cronyism; and a procession of incompetent monarchs. 

Hmm. Does any of this sound familiar? 

Let’s start with unnecessary wars. If there was a single event that started the Spanish empire on its death spiral, it was King Philip II’s disastrous decision to send an “Invincible Armada” to attack England in 1588. Philip and the Spanish church were filled with holy zeal to smite the English infidels. A Jesuit prelate named Pedro de Ribadeneira wrote, “I consider this enterprise the most important undertaken by God’s Church for many hundreds of years. Every conceivable pretext for a just and holy war is to be found in this campaign. … This is a defensive, not an offensive war; one in which we are defending our sacred religion and our most holy Roman Catholic faith.” The invasion abjectly failed, the ships destroyed by a combination of English cannon, fires, and storms, at a cost of 10 million ducats — three-fourths of Philip’s annual budget. 

Wars imposed an insupportable financial burden on Spain, and its rejection of science and the Enlightenment prevented it from advancing alongside European nations that were open to new ideas. Spain’s stagnant intellectual climate was epitomized by a notorious episode that took place during the reign of Philip IV. When a junta of theologians was summoned to opine upon a proposed canal linking the Manzanares and the Tagus rivers, it declared that if God had intended the rivers to be navigable, He would have made them so. When progressive Spaniards embraced the humanist ideas of the free-thinking Dutch scholar Erasmus, the Inquisition, the powerful ecclesiastical institution charged with maintaining Catholic orthodoxy, accused him of heresy and forced him to recant his sins publicly and spend a year in seclusion in a monastery. Crucially, Elliott argues that Spain created the Inquisition precisely because Spain was more racially and religiously diverse than other European countries: “The intermingling of Christians, Jews, and Moors had created religious and racial problems of unparalleled complexity and had prompted the organization of a tribunal dedicated to a solution along the only lines that seemed feasible — the imposition of orthodoxy.” The Inquisition was driven not just by hatred of alien beliefs but by fear that even the slightest deviation from orthodoxy might open the floodgates to widespread heresy. 

The Inquisition’s obsession with ferreting out heretics was indistinguishable from its obsession with exposing and denouncing those who were racially impure; namely, Jews and Moriscos, descendants of the Moors who conquered Spain in the 8th century and ruled it for centuries. Spain’s obsession with racial purity, or limpieza de sangre (“purity of blood”), drove it to expel first its Jews, in 1492, then its Moriscos, between 1609 and 1614. The Spanish crown feared, for good reason, that even Jews or Muslims who had converted to Catholicism often secretly clung to their old beliefs. But political and economic reasons also played a role. Many Jews had attained high positions in finance and trade, and some Spanish resented their success. Similarly, many so-called Old Christians (as opposed to the Moriscos, who were known as “New Christians”) disliked the Moriscos for, as Elliott writes, “spending too little, working too hard, and breeding too fast.” 

Both expulsions had negative effects on the Spanish economy. So disastrous was the effect of the expulsion of the Moriscos that in 1633, the royal confessor wrote, “It is a very short time ago since the Moriscos were expelled — an action which did such harm to these kingdoms that it would be a good idea to have them back again, if they could be persuaded to accept our Holy Faith.” But as Elliott writes, “[W]hat was done could never be undone. The regime of the Duke of Lerma [the favorite of King Philip III, who effectively governed Spain during Philip’s reign] was never one to give much thought to the morrow, and the expulsion of the Moriscos aptly symbolized its general outlook in its total disregard for economic realities, its determination to adopt the easiest solution when confronted by admittedly intractable problems, and its tendency to give way before popular and sectarian pressures. Here was a regime that, at a time when Castile stood most in need of government, was content to follow where others led, a government that preferred panaceas to policies and had nothing but high-sounding phrases and empty gestures to offer a society that desperately needed a cure for its many ills.” 

Spain in the age of empire suffered from extremes of wealth and poverty: It had virtually no middle class. The writer Gonzalez de Cellorigo lamented in 1600, “Our republic has come to be an extreme contrast of rich and poor, and there is no means of adjusting them one to another. Our condition is one in which we have rich who loll at ease, or poor who beg, and we lack people of the middling sort, whom neither wealth nor poverty prevents from pursuing the rightful kind of business enjoined by natural law.” Elliott notes that Spain lacked what other European countries were developing: “a middling group of solid, respectable, hard-working bourgeois to bridge the gap between the two extremes.” Elliott argues that Spain’s potential middle class was lured away from productive activities by a desire to emulate the lazy, decadent aristocracy. As he writes, they “had committed the great betrayal. They had been enticed away by the false values of a disorientated society — a society of ‘the bewitched, living outside the natural order of things.’ The contempt for commerce and manual labor, the lure of easy money from investment in censos and juros [financial instruments that further drained Spain’s collapsing economy], the universal hunger for titles of nobility and social prestige — all these … had persuaded the bourgeoisie to abandon its unequal struggle, and throw in its lot with the unproductive upper classes of society.”

Spain’s decline was exacerbated by the rise of so-called validos, or royal favorites, who for decades wielded the real power in the royal court — and used their influence for massive self-enrichment. We’ve already noted the disastrous decision by one of the most prominent of these favorites, the Duke of Lerma, to expel Spain’s Moriscos. Lerma not only gorged himself at the royal trough; he was also particularly prone to being conned by even more outrageous grifters. “Lerma’s choice of confidants was uniformly disastrous,” Elliott writes. “Easily deceived by plausible rogues, he elevated to positions of great importance the most unsavory characters.” Don Pedro Franqueza, a bureaucrat tasked by Lerma to run the treasury, stole almost unbelievable amounts of money from the royal coffers and managed to obtain the title of Count of Villalonga before he was caught in 1607. Once arrested, Don Franqueza was charged with no fewer than 484 offenses, including fraud, misappropriation, bribery, extortion, embezzlement of public funds, document forgery, violation of state secrets, influence peddling, and concealment of assets. He was sentenced to life in prison and forced to  repay 1.5 million ducats, about a fifth of the Crown’s average annual expenditure. 

Finally, some of Spain’s monarchs, especially the ones who were in power during the empire’s swan song, were even worse than the validos. Sovereigns like Carlos IV, who was interested only in hunting, and his despotic, vindictive son Ferdinand VII were dreadful rulers whose incompetence led Napoleon to depose them both. Historian Stanley G. Payne described Ferdinand — during whose 19th century reign Spain lost most of its empire and whose later period is referred to as “the Ominous Decade” — as “in many ways the basest king in Spanish history. Cowardly, selfish, grasping, suspicious, and vengeful, D. Fernando seemed almost incapable of any perception of the commonwealth.” 

Spain’s decline was a long time in the making. When Anza proudly planted the Spanish flag on San Francisco soil in 1776, the great empire he represented had been rotting from within for more than a century and a half. But few could have predicted that it would collapse as suddenly as it did.

The United States isn’t Spain. But for anyone who follows the news, the parallels are inescapable — and ominous."]]></description>
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According to Rabbi and organiser Alissa Wise, it's precisely the teachings of her faith that informs her stance against Israel, and her advocacy for a free Palestine.

Rabbi Wise is a former organiser with Jewish Voice for Peace, and in December 2023 founded the group Rabbis for Ceasefire, calling for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.

The group now has more than 200 members, all of them teachers of the Jewish faith. They're a part of a growing movement of dissenting voices within Jewish communities challenging ideas that were taboo for decades.

Back in November, shortly after the re-election of Donald Trump, The Big Picture Podcast  travelled to Philadelphia to meet with Rabbi Alissa Wise to talk about the history of Judaism and the Jewish people.

And why standing against Zionism is the most Jewish thing she can do."]]></description>
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[also here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAAXWgviE4

"El sociólogo puertorriqueño Ramón Grosfoguel impartió en TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, dentro del ciclo 'No-Todo: crítica y negatividad', la conferencia titulada 'Descolonizar el poder y el saber'. En ella, el autor establece una crítica a las manifestaciones políticas, económicas, sociales y culturales que todavía reproducen los patrones en que se basa la hegemonía mundial de Occidente. En este sentido, plantea la necesidad de discutir las implicaciones que tiene el uso del concepto ‘Universal’ por parte de la tradición moderna. 

Desde el pensamiento descolonial, Grosfoguel apela a la pluralidad que encarnan las formas de conocimiento y las relaciones basadas en el sexo, la raza o la espiritualidad que caracterizan a las sociedades no europeas. Todo ello desde una perspectiva que no se defina como ‘uni-versal’, sino que, atendiendo tal diversidad, se asuma así misma como ‘Pluri-versal’. Para Grosfoguel, la crítica descolonial es imprescindible para identificar la continuidad del proyecto de dominación global emprendido por Occidente hace ya cinco siglos."]]]></description>
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    <title>El futuro de las historias - Javier Argüello y Rafael Gumucio | Valparaíso 2024 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-23T20:00:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["En esta conversación, los escritores Javier Argüello y Rafael Gumucio abordarán el oficio de escribir y cómo las narrativas configuran nuestra visión del mundo. Se explorará el poder del relato científico como la narrativa dominante en la actualidad, así como el papel de la memoria en la reconstrucción de la realidad familiar y social. 

En un contexto marcado por la inteligencia artificial, las redes sociales y los modelos generativos, se reflexionará sobre el papel y el futuro de las historias en una era de transformación tecnológica, invitando al público a repensar la creación literaria en el mundo contemporáneo.

Presenta Colbún y Coopeuch. Proyecto financiado por PAOCC"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas.”

…

“This whole state of affairs would have come as a surprise to Enlightenment philosophers, who were inclined to think their ideals of freedom and equality owed much to the native peoples of what they called the “New World.” Of course, they could have been more open about their influences, because “the West” had not yet been invented, and if they saw Western Europe as heir to some ancient intellectual tradition, then it was Christian theology (the very one they were trying to escape). Historians of the future may yet come to describe the origins of modern governance as a cultural composite, assembled from Amer­indian notions of personal liberty, African social-contract theory, free-market economics inspired by medieval Islam, and Chinese models of the nation-state (a civil service chosen by competitive exams, administering a uniform ethnolinguistic population).

In similar fashion, one could make a case that some of the very earliest Enlightenment salons were held not in Europe but in Montreal, during the 1690s. It was there that an indigenous statesman called Kandiaronk, acting as liaison between the Wendat (“Huron”) confederation and the regime of Louis XIV, sat down regularly with the French governor-general, the comte de Frontenac et de Palluau, and his deputies—including a certain Baron de Lahontan—to debate issues such as economic morality, law, sexual mores, and revealed religion. Kandiaronk was widely hailed by French observers as the most brilliant logician and wittiest debater anyone had ever met (one slightly irritated Jesuit wrote, “No one has perhaps ever exceeded him in mental capacity”), and a book based on notes from these debates later became a best seller across Europe.

Published in 1703, Lahontan’s Curious Dialogues with a Savage of Good Sense Who Has Traveled inspired, among other things, a long-running theatrical production. Almost every major Enlightenment thinker came up with their own variant on it, featuring a foreign observer (usually Native American but sometimes Polynesian, Persian, or Chinese) who picks apart the absurdities of French society and typically apes Kandiaronk’s signature style of skeptical rationalism, his piece-by-piece dissection of Christian doctrine, advocacy of sexual freedom, and his insistence that all the social ills of Europe are ultimately rooted in inequalities of wealth. Conservative thinkers would later place blame for the violent excesses of the French Revolution directly at the feet of The Jesuit Relations and texts such as those of Lahontan, which they claimed first introduced such infectious ideas into a stable, hierarchical social order.

Over time the terms of this debate have veered to the other extreme. These days any attempt to suggest Europeans learned anything at all of moral or social value from Native people is met with mild derision and accusations of indulging in “noble savage tropes” or occasionally almost hysterical condemnation, as with the “Influence Debate,” triggered by the proposal that Haudenosaunee federal structures (the Six Nations of the Iroquois) might have been one model for the U.S. constitution.”

…

“Are the ruins of Teotihuacán testimony to an early social revolution? Was the city democratically administered in its later phases? We cannot say for sure, but what we can say is that the context for such debates is changing. Aside from later examples in the Americas, contemporary research in Eurasia is beginning to show that long before fifth-century Athens, egalitarian cities and participatory forms of government were surprisingly common—the first urban cultures of Mesopotamia, Ukraine, and the Indus Valley, for instance, and also other cases of social revolution, like the Chinese city of Taosi at around 2000 bc. Again, future historians will likely see the origins of modern nation-states very differently than the way we do now. Equally, it seems, they will need to abandon an Elgin Marbles view of the past and make space for entirely new histories of democracy.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[1] "Johnson suggests even in private, North Koreans cannot tell the truth — that everything in their lives is fictionalized to one degree or another — & Brown says that's part of why his book is so original.

"Their own biographies are captured and rewritten and made to be the thing that you imbibe and live through, and that's why the freedom of the rower becomes such a haunting thing to Jun Do," Brown says."

[2] ""[York] writes about 'dictator chic,' which has now taken over as the fall of all these dictators from the Arab Spring brings all this flight money into Europe, & invades us with their taste," Brown says. According to York, 'despot decor' is increasing in certain spots around the world."

[3] "Murphy suggests that the Inquisition, rather than being a relic of the past, is a harbinger of modern times. Brown says that the sustained ability to create a system of fear, maintain records, & monitor people through communication systems & law reminds her of more modern examples."]]></description>
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