Mumbo-Jumbo.

My dear friend Felix Peinado was writing today in his blog about that "selected group" of people, intellectuals, "gurus", "experts" that shape the collective intelligence, or at least command a great deal of influence in what most of us believe and understand as the "truth". I am reading at the moment "How Mumbo Jumbo conquered the World", and the author goes into a lot of detail in explaining the idiocy, the stupidity of many so called truths of many self-proclaimed experts. Although I do not agree with all of his arguments, he is sharp and shows many examples of collective stupidity driven to extremes by people who, like he says "should know better" (Tom Peters, G.W.Bush, Blair, Gore, and he doesn´t mention him because he probably doesn´t know who he is, but certainly he could have included our beloved Rodriguez).
From the speudo-scientific articles and books written by experts on UFO´s, horoscopes, prophecies, crystal ball readers advising politicians (i.e.Reagan),...and so on. He also attacks what he calls the "cultural, moral and intellectual  relativism" very common in our society. And if this is very common everywhere in the world, I believe here in Spain we suffer from that disease even more. I refuse to believe, as we are very often told, that all ideas are equally valid, that all arguments must be respected, that history is something "flexible", that it all depends on the eye of the beholder. It is not true: some ideas are plain wrong, and no matter how many people might believe the opposite, Creationism is false, and Evolution is correct. Some ideas are Evil because they go against fundamental human rights. Not everything is debatable: there are good values that there are wrong values, and I think the opposite is often argued just out of cowardice and the omnipresent and disgusting political correctness of many of our politicians and self proclaimed intellectuals. So there.

Beautiful day today. I missed the kids a lot. I´ll go see them tomorrow in Sangarcia. By the way, in 2 days it will be the 9th anniversary of our wedding: time really flies, it was hot and stormy day in Segovia that day. I hope time slows down from now on, although I´m repeatedly told that it will pass even faster, I refuse to believe it.