A ilusão científica

Faith in the Unseen

Curtis White’s ‘Science Delusion’

By ERIC BANKS

Most works in philosophy enter the world quietly, but not Thomas Nagel’s recent “Mind and Cosmos.” With its chin-leading subtitle, “Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,” the slim volume met with a firestorm of indignation from critics who thought Nagel had lost his mind or, worse, had thrown in with intelligent design theory. (Steven Pinker tweeted: “What has gotten into Thomas Nagel? . . . a once-great thinker.”) What incited the reaction was Nagel’s questioning whether advances in neuroscience are on the verge of resolving the mysteries of consciousness, and with it issues that have fueled philosophical speculation for centuries, from subjectivity to free will.

Enlarge This Image

Image from Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Existential angst: The German idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling, circa 1820.

THE SCIENCE DELUSION

Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers

By Curtis White

Illustrated. 215 pp. Melville House. $23.95.

Rather like Nagel, but angrier, is the novelist and critic Curtis White. Though neither a research scientist nor a trained philosopher, he is infuriated by the sunny confidence of neuroscience, arguing that it is not just a product of ambitious overreach but, more, a willful act of arrogance. In his rambling book “The Science Delusion,” he writes that the coming battle in this neo-Darwinian culture war will be an all-out assault against imagination by scientists and popular science journalists: “Freed at last from the limits imposed by religion, science has extended its ambitions beyond the debunking of Christian dogma. It has now turned its attention to another old competitor, the secular world of the humanities and the arts.”
Mais

Hérois de nosso tempo

The Pantheon

Posted by Charles Burris on June 9, 2013 06:10 PM

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Sibel Edmonds, Karen Kwiatkowski, Gary Webb, Danny Casolaro, John Stockwell, Daniel Ellsberg, Mike Gravel, A. Ernest Fitzgerald, Whitaker Chambers, Benjamin Gitlow, and Smedley Darlington Butler are heroes and heroines in the pantheon of whistleblowers who put their conscientious dedication to first principles ahead of a pretended allegiance to duplicitous cabals within a criminal state which had betrayed the fiduciary trust and essential liberties of the people. Their courageous stories and historic legacies and examples should be celebrated in every classroom from coast to coast as models of integrity and conviction for our younger generation fixated on narcissistic faux celebrities and sports figures with the nihilistic ethical standards of alley cats and gutter rats.

Como viver

Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning

by Maria Popova

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

Celebrated Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, born on March 26, 1905, remains best-known for his indispensable 1946 psychological memoir Man’s Search for Meaning (public library) — a meditation on what the gruesome experience of Auschwitz taught him about the primary purpose of life: the quest for meaning, which sustained those who survived.
Mais

Os indianos aprendem alemão - e você?

Indien München stelle ich mir toll vor

05.06.2013 ·  Goethe in Indien: Schulen, die dort als erste Fremdsprache Deutsch anbieten, erleben eine enorme Nachfrage. Doch ausgerechnet gut ausgebildete Lehrer sind Mangelware.

Von Michael Radunski, Delhi
Mais 

Ciência em dúvida

FROM SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT TO THOMISTIC ONTOLOGY⁽¹⁾

Wolfgang Smith
Hayden, Idaho

I AM PLEASED and honored to give this Templeton Lecture on Christianity and the Natural Sciences. I regard the objective of these Lectures as a cultural task of prime importance. I believe that the reputed conflict between science and religion does exist, and is in fact far more serious than one tends to think; but, at the same time, I am persuaded that the conflict arises not from science as such but from a penumbra of scientistic beliefs for which in reality there is no scientific support at all. This oft-overlooked distinction between scientific truth and scientistic belief has long been a special concern of mine. I have, for many years, made it my business to hunt down and ferret out major articles of scientistic belief--not as an academic exercise, but in the conviction that the acceptance of such contemporary dogmas is injurious to our spiritual well-being. I have no doubt that the ongoing de-Christianization of Western society is due in large measure to the imposition of the prevailing scientistic world-view.
Meanwhile something quite unexpected and as yet largely unobserved has come to pass: this scientistic world-view, which still reigns as the official dogma of science, appears no longer to square with the scientific facts. What has happened in our century is that unprecedented discoveries at the frontiers of science seem no longer to accord with the accustomed Weltanschauung, with the result that these findings present the appearance of paradox. It seems that on its most fundamental level physics itself has disavowed the prevailing world-view. This science, therefore, can ...
Mais

Nassim Taleb

The Inventory: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘Who is my mentor? I have inverse mentors: people I learnt to not imitate,’ says the scholar and philosopher

 Mais

Já sabia?

Meu filho, você não merece nada

Publicado em 17/05/2013 por Clínica Alamedas

 A crença de que a felicidade é um direito tem tornado despreparada a geração mais preparadaELIANE BRUM
Leia mais

Vigilãncia global

Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents

Chris Mills - Gizmodo UK 6/07/13 7:42am Today 7:42amg 304,854L 353Edit

Related

What Is PRISM?

Last night, the Washington Post and Guardian dropped concurrent bombshell reports. Their subject was PRISM, a covert collaboration between the NSA,… Read…

In the wake of last night’s revelation that everyone in the world has a creepy NSA-shaped stalker, defenders of online liberty and generally angry internet people Anonymous have leaked a treasure trove of NSA documents, including seriously important stuff like the US Department of Defense’s ‘Strategic Vision’ for controlling the internet.

The documents — 13 in total — were posted online, along with an accompanying message full of the normal Anonymous bluster: people won’t be silenced, they have the memory of trivia-master elephants, the governments of the world will fall, your average press release really.

The documents seem to mostly relate to PRISM and supporting operations, and mostly date from around 2008, supposedly not long after PRISM first reared its ugly head. One of the key things Anonymous has highlighted from the documents is the existence of an “intelligence-sharing network” that shares data gleaned from PRISM with “intelligence partners” around the world. Although we’re still in the process of combing through the documents, you can bet your last Bitcoin that ‘intelligence’ has been shared with British security services.

Mais

Entrevista sobre os campos de concentração soviético Gulag

A autor Anne Applebaum explica a história.
Video em português.
Conheça a história do campo de concentração soviético Gulag
Assista vídeo sobre o Gulag soviético 
Na entrevista Anne Applebaum fala do livro GULAG -
Uma História dos Campos de Prisioneiros Soviéticos, ganhador do Prêmio Pulitzer 2004 Não-Ficção. Leia: http://www.libertarianismo.org/livros...

"Quanto mais formos capazes de entender como as diferentes sociedades transformaram seu próximo e seu semelhante em objetos quanto mais conhecermos as circunstâncias específicas que orientaram cada episódio de tortura e execução em massa, mais entenderemos o lado sombrio de nossa natureza humana. Este livro não foi escrito para que "a história não se repita", como diz um velho clichê. Este livro foi escrito porque é quase certo que a história se repetirá. As filosofias totalitaristas tiveram, e continuarão a ter, um grande apelo sobre milhões de pessoas. A destruição do "inimigo impessoal", como Hannah Arendt disse certa vez, continua sendo um objetivo fundamental de muitas ditaduras. Precisamos saber por quê - e todas as histórias, todas as memórias, todos os documentos da história do Gulag são uma parte do quebra-cabeça, uma parte da explicação. Sem eles, vamos acordar um dia e perceber que não sabemos quem somos."

Aquecimento global

Livros polemicos da história

http://www.universiando.com/contenido/detalle_vacilate.php?id=8077

Fernando Pessoa sobre o estado

Maioria não implica justiça

Guerras democráticas

The Paradox of Imperialism

Mises Daily: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In contrast to the limited warfare of the ancien regime, the era of democratic warfare — which began with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, continued during the 19th century with the American War of Southern Independence, and reached its apex during the 20th century with World War I and World War II — has been the era of total war.
In blurring the distinction between the rulers and the ruled ("we all rule ourselves"), democracy strengthened the identification of the public with a particular state. Rather than dynastic property disputes which could be resolved through conquest and occupation, democratic wars became ideological battles: clashes of civilizations, which could only be resolved through cultural, linguistic, or religious domination, subjugation and, if necessary, extermination.
Mais

A origem da escola pública

The Origins of the Public School

JULY 01, 1998 by ROBERT P. MURPHY

Hardly anyone disputes the contention that the modem public school is seriously flawed. Test scores continue to be poor while metal detectors are found in the more violent schools. Welfare-state liberals argue that schools in poor areas need more money to place them on an equal footing with their richer counterparts. Conservatives usually reply that the solution is a voucher system that would break the government monopoly on education by restoring choice and control to parents. But virtually all participants on both sides of the debate concede the nobility of the original reformers; in their view, the “good intentions” of such school champions as Horace Mann and John Dewey led to “unintended consequences.”
Such admiration is misplaced. As historian Michael Katz writes, “The crusade for educational reform led by Horace Mann . . . was not the simple, unambiguous good it had long been taken to be; the central aim of the movement was to establish more efficient mechanisms of social control, and its chief legacy was the principle that ‘education was something the better part of the community did to the others to make them orderly, moral, and tractable.’ ”¹


Read more: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-origins-of-the-public-school#ixzz2VM5qlQtk

A verdade sobre Lincoln

The Real Lincoln in His Own Words

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Mises.org

Recently by Thomas DiLorenzo: The Friedmanite Corruption of Capitalism

After writing two books and dozens of articles, and giving hundreds of radio and television interviews and public presentations on the subject of Lincoln and the political economy of the American "Civil War"over the past fifteen years, I have realized that the only thing the average American knows about the subject is a few slogans that we are all subjected to in elementary school. I was taught in public elementary school in Pennsylvania that Abe was so honest that he once walked six miles to return a penny to a merchant who undercharged him (and six miles back home). He was supposedly so tendered hearted that he cried after witnessing the death of a turkey. He suffered in silence his entire life after witnessing slavery as a teenager (While everyone else in the country was screaming over the issue). And of course he was "a champion of democracy, an apostle of racial equality, and a paragon of social justice," Joseph Fallon writes in his important new, must-read book, Lincoln Uncensored.
This view of Lincoln, writes Fallon, is only true "in official histories or in Hollywood movies" but not in reality. The reason for this historical disconnect is that "this myth of Lincoln, not the Constitution . . . now confers legitimacy on the political system of the United States." Despite being mostly a bundle of lies, it is nevertheless the ideological cornerstone of statism in America and has been for nearly 150 years.
The real Lincoln was a dictator and a tyrant who shredded the Constitution, fiendishly orchestrated the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens, and did it all for the economic benefit of the special interests who funded the Republican Party (and his own political career). But don’t take Joseph Fallon’s or Thomas DiLorenzo’s word for it. Read the words of Abe Lincoln himself. That is what Fallon allows everyone to do in his great work of scholarship, Lincoln Uncensored. No longer do Americans need to rely on politically-correct, heavily state-censored textbooks or movies made by communistic-minded Hollywood hedonists to learn about this part of their own country’s history.
Each of the twenty-three chaptes of Lincoln Uncensored explains the real Lincoln in Lincoln’s own words by quoting him directly from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (CW), complete with specific citations for every single quotation. The following is an abbreviated sampling of what you will learn upon reading Lincoln Uncensored.
Leia mais

Ranking de universidades - a grande arte de manipulação

http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/universitaetsrankings-so-manche-uni-frisiert-die-zahlen-a-903627.html

Como criar o inferno na terra

UFOP - a volta do horror

UM ESPANTO E UM ABSURDO: há um Centro de Difusão do Comunismo em uma importante Universidade federal — pago com nosso dinheiro. O currículo inclui até “militância anticapitalista”

O comunismo como projeto de uma “nova sociedade” foi, provavelmente, o maior fracasso da história da Humanidade.
Durante décadas, oprimiu dezenas de países e centenas de milhões de pessoas, suprimiu-lhes a liberdade, condenou-as ao atraso e à carência.
Provocou milhões de mortes, prisões iníquas, violações sem conta dos direitos humanos.
Desabou a partir da queda do Muro de Berlim, em 1989, e morreu de vez, como projeto global em 1991, com o fim inglório da União Soviética, que já vinha caindo aos pedaços há vários anos.
Como relíquias de uma época da qual as pessoas querem distância, persistem regimes comunistas em países miseráveis e famélicos como a Coreia do Norte, ou próximos dessa situação, como Cuba. E formalmente comunistas, a China e o Vietnã enveredaram por um feroz capitalismo de Estado e, da ideologia de Marx aplicada à realidade, só restou a ditadura de partido único.
Nada disso fez mudar uma importante universidade federal “deztepaiz” — a Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Ufop).
Mais

Método científico

Time to Ditch the Scientific Method

By Jeffrey Herbener

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

In a speech discussing the future of liberal education, delivered on the occasion of his retirement as Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale, Donald Kagan struck a Rothbardian note:  

But hasn’t the scientific method made its way into other disciplines, and can’t its benefits be obtained through them? Where the attempt has been made most seriously, in the social sciences, it has been a failure. It is increasingly obvious that trying to deal with human beings, creatures of independent will and purpose, as if they were objects like atoms, molecules, cells, and tissues, produces unsatisfactory results. The social sciences, far from producing a progressive narrowing of differences and a growing agreement on a common body of knowledge and of principles capable of explanation and prediction, like the natural sciences, has seen each generation undermine the beliefs of its predecessors rather than building on and refining them. What we see is a war of methodologies within and between fields. In fact, the fundamental idea of the whole enterprise, the attempt to remove values from the consideration of human behavior and simply to apply the scientific method, now seems most implausible.

Fonte

O que é errado na sociedade brasileira

Adolfo Sachsida:
Nesse vídeo explico o porque de acreditar que tem algo de muito errado na sociedade brasileira.
Assista

Reciclagem

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/06/03/michael-c-munger/recycling-can-it-be-wrong-when-it-feels-so-right

Puta feliz

Campanha federal diz: 'sou feliz sendo prostituta'

04 de junho de 2013

Agência Estado

O Ministério da Saúde lançou uma campanha nas redes sociais para reduzir o estigma em torno da prostituição que deve causar discussão. Uma das peças diz: "Eu sou feliz sendo prostituta" e tem profissionais do sexo como protagonistas. A iniciativa surge após uma série de outras polêmicas envolvendo campanhas de saúde na gestão Dilma Rousseff.

Reprodução

Cinco vídeos surgiram de oficinas na rede social

Composto por vídeos e banners, o material é fruto da oficina de profissionais do sexo realizada em março em João Pessoa, que tem como mote "Sem vergonha de usar camisinha". Nas peças, mensagens contra o preconceito, sobre o desejo de ser respeitada e a necessidade de prevenção contra DST-aids. Feita para marcar o Dia Internacional das Prostitutas, 2 de junho, a campanha - que retrata positivamente a profissão - foi bem recebida por feministas e grupos que trabalham com prevenção.
Mais

Professora brasileira na Finlândia

'Me sinto uma rainha', diz brasileira professora no país nº 1 em educação

Formada pela UFBA, Luciana Pölönen dá aulas há três anos na Finlândia.
País no Norte da Europa tem a melhor educação do mundo.

"Eu me sinto como uma rainha ensinando aqui. Ser professor na Finlândia é ser respeitado diariamente, tanto quanto qualquer outro profissional!", afirma a brasileira, que se casou com um finlandês, tem uma filha de três anos, Eeva Cecilia, e está grávida à espera de um menino. "Aqui na Finlândia o sistema é outro, o professor é o pilar da sociedade."

Por quatro anos consecutivos, a Finlândia ficou entre os primeiros lugares no Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Alunos (Pisa), que mede a qualidade de ensino. Durante visita em São Paulo, na semana passada, a diretora do Ministério da Educação e Cultura, Jaana Palojärvi, disse que o segredo do sucesso do sistema finlandês de ensino não tem nada a ver com métodos pedagógicos revolucionários, uso da tecnologia em sala de aula ou avaliações nacionais. O lema é treinar o professor e dar liberdade para ele trabalhar. 

Mais 

Aprende a ciência de disinformação

The 25 Rules of Disinformation

May 24th, 2011 | Category: Latest News | 8273108 commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fvigilantcitizen.com%2Flatestnews%2Fthe-25-rules-of-disinformation%2FThe+25+Rules+of+Disinformation2011-05-24+14%3A08%3A47VChttp%3A%2F%2Fvigilantcitizen.com%2F%3Fp%3D8273

 7133 1645 1405 13.2K

From Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney. These 25 rules are everywhere in media, from political debates, to television shows, to comments on a blog.
Veja as 25 tecnicas
mais

História escondida: o holocausto brasileiro

Em Holocausto Brasileiro (Geração Editorial), Daniela Arbex devolve aos corpos sem história, que eram os corpos dos “loucos”, uma história que fala deles, mas fala mais de nós, os ditos “normais”. Durante décadas, as pessoas eram enfiadas – em geral compulsoriamente – dentro de um vagão de trem que as descarregava na Colônia. Lá suas roupas eram arrancadas, seus cabelos raspados e, seus nomes, apagados. Nus no corpo e na identidade, a humanidade sequestrada, homens, mulheres e até mesmo crianças viravam "Ignorados de Tal"...
Quem eram eles, para além dos nomes apagados? Epiléticos, alcoolistas, homossexuais, prostitutas, mendigos, militantes políticos, gente que se rebelava, gente que se tornara incômoda para alguém com mais poder. Eram meninas grávidas, violentadas por seus patrões, eram esposas confinadas para que o marido pudesse morar com a amante, eram filhas de fazendeiros que perderam a virgindade antes do casamento. 
mais

Mitos da história: Lincoln, secessão e a "guerra civil"

Thomas DiLorenzo: More on the Myth of Lincoln, Secession and the 'Civil War'

With Anthony Wile

The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas DiLorenzo.
Thomas DiLorenzo: Lincoln mythology is the ideological cornerstone of American statism. He was in reality the most hated of all American presidents during his lifetime according to an excellent book by historian Larry Tagg entitled The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: America's Most Reviled President. He was so hated in the North that the New York Times editorialized a wish that he would be assassinated. This is perfectly understandable: He illegally suspended Habeas Corpus and imprisoned tens of thousands of Northern political critics without due process; shut down over 300 opposition newspapers; committed treason by invading the Southern states (Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution defines treason as "only levying war upon the states" or "giving aid and comfort to their enemies," which of course is exactly what Lincoln did). He enforced military conscription with the murder of hundreds of New York City draft protesters in 1863 and with the mass execution of deserters from his army. He deported a congressional critic (Democratic Congressman Clement Vallandigham of Ohio); confiscated firearms; and issued an arrest warrant for the Chief Justice when the jurist issued an opinion that only Congress could legally suspend Habeas Corpus. He waged an unnecessary war (all other countries ended slavery peacefully in that century) that resulted in the death of as many as 850,000 Americans according to new research published in the last two years. Standardizing for today's population, that would be similar to 8.5 million American deaths in a four-year war.
Mais

O universo não faz sentido

Is Nature Unnatural?

Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense.

by: Natalie Wolchover

Is the universe natural or do we live in an atypical bubble in a multiverse? Recent results at the Large Hadron Collider have forced many physicists to confront the latter possibility...

Arkani-Hamed laid out the dual, seemingly contradictory implications of recent experimental results at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
“The universe is inevitable,” he declared. “The universe is impossible.”
Mais

Veja também:

“There are frustrating theoretical problems in quantum field theory that demand solutions, but the string theory ‘landscape’ of 10⁵⁰⁰ solutions does not make sense to me. Neither does the multiverse concept or the anthropic principle,” said David J. Gross, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. To read the full interview, click here

Médicos cubanos

Segundo o reitor da Faculdade de Medicina Nacional do Paraguay, “médicos cubanos tem têm habilidades e conhecimentos de uma licenciatura em Enfermagem”.

As autoridades médicas paraguaias consideram que os médicos formados em Cuba não têm formação suficiente para exercer a medicina em seu país, disse segunda-feira o reitor da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Nacional do Paraguai, Aníbal Filartiga.

Mais

Mais uma fraude acadêmica

Rigoberta Menchú, embustera

Por David Horowitz

La historia de Rigoberto Menchú, una india maya quiché de Guatemala cuya autobiografía la catapultó a la fama internacional, la que le granjeó un premio Nobel de la paz y la convirtió en emblema de los pueblos indígenas desposeídos del hemisferio occidental y de su intento de rebelarse contra la opresión de los conquistadores, ha sido expuesta como una fabricación política, un entramado de mentiras y una de las mayores bromas pesadas intelectuales y académicas del siglo XX.
Durante la década pasada, Rigoberta Menchú se convirtió en el principal icono de la cultura universitaria. En uno de sus celebrados "logros" de izquierda multicultural, una manifestación de profesores y estudiantes de extrema izquierda liderados por el Reverendo Jesse Jackson en la Universidad de Stanford, cantaron "¡Hey, hey, jo, jo, las culturas occidentales tienen que irse!". El blanco de la canción era el plan de estudios de civilización occidental exigido a los de Stanford. Los funcionarios universitarios se doblegaron rápidamente ante los manifestantes, y el título del curso se cambió a simplemente "CIV". Los trabajos de autores "tercermundistas" (marxistas principalmente) previamente "excluidos" eran ahora introducidos en el canon de grandes obras de lectura obligatoria. Al frente de éstas se encontraba una autobiografía de una guatemalteca indígena y una vez revolucionaria Yo, Rigoberta Menchú, que ahora ocupaba su lugar junto a Aristóteles, Dante y Shakespeare como introducción al mundo para los estudiantes de Stanford.
Publicada en 1982, Yo, Rigoberta Menchú fue escrita en realidad por una izquierdista francesa, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, esposa del marxista Regis Debray, quien proporcionó la "estrategia de foco" al fracasado esfuerzo del Che Guevara por fomentar una guerra de guerrillas en los años sesenta en Bolivia. La idea del foco consistía en que los intelectuales urbanos insertaran un frente militar dentro del sistema de opresión social, y proporcionaran el catalizador del cambio revolucionario. La errónea teoría de Debray logró que Guevara y un número indeterminado de campesinos bolivianos acabaran muertos y, como veremos, se encuentra en la raíz de las tragedias que abrumaron a Rigoberta Menchú y a su familia, y que son (falsamente) relatadas en Yo, Rigoberta Menchú.
Según lo relatado en esta autobiografía, la historia de Rigoberta Menchú es el tipo de mito marxista clásico. Los Menchú eran una pobre familia maya residente en los márgenes de un país del que habían sido desposeídos por conquistadores españoles. Sus descendientes, conocidos como ladinos, intentan expulsar a los Menchú y a otros campesinos de la tierra sin reclamar que habían cultivado. Según cuenta su historia, Rigoberta es analfabeta, y su padre campesino, Vicente, evitó que recibiera una educación. Él rehúsa enviarla a la escuela porque la necesita para trabajar los campos, y porque teme que la escuela la vuelva contra él. La familia Menchú es tan pobre a causa de su falta de tierra, que Rigoberta tiene que ver morir de hambre a su hermano menor. Mientras tanto, Vicente se alista en una batalla heroica pero desesperada en última instancia contra los caciques ladinos por una parcela que cultivar. Finalmente, Vicente organiza un movimiento de resistencia llamado Comité Campesino de Unidad para impulsar las reclamaciones sobre la tierra de los indígenas contra los señores ladinos. Rigoberta se convierte también en organizador político.
Entra en el foco de guerrilla Guevara–Debrayista. El movimiento de resistencia indígena organizado por el padre campesino de Rigoberta se vincula a una fuerza revolucionaria armada, el Ejército Guerrilla de los Pobres (ERG). Ahora, los campesinos tienen una posibilidad de luchar. Pero los descendientes ladinos de los conquistadores acuden a las brutales fuerzas de seguridad guatemaltecas para aplastar la rebelión y preservar el status quo de injusticia social. Matan a Vicente Menchú. La familia que sobrevive es forzada a ver al hermano de Rigoberta arder vivo. La madre de Rigoberta es violada y asesinada.
Según lo dicho por Rigoberta, la tragedia de los Menchú es "la historia de todos los pobres de Guatemala". La autora de Yo, Rigoberta Menchú hace explícito este vínculo: "Mi experiencia personal es la realidad de un pueblo entero". Es un llamamiento a la gente de buena voluntad de todo el mundo a ayudar a los pueblos indígenas nobles pero impotentes de Guatemala y de los países del tercer mundo a lograr su herencia legítima. Internacionalmente famosa por el éxito de su libro y por el premio Nobel que se le concedió en 1992, Rigoberta es hoy gerente de la Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum de Derechos Humanos y portavoz de la causa de la "justicia social y la paz".
Desafortunadamente para esta fantasía política, virtualmente todo lo que ha escrito Rigoberta es mentira. Además estas mentiras no son ni fortuitas ni accidentales. Son mentiras acerca de los sucesos y los hechos centrales de su historia, y se han inventado deliberadamente para ajustar su contenido político y para crear un mito político específico. Este mito comienza en la primera página misma del texto de Rigoberta:
Mais