Un poco de sensatez

Diría yo que Richard Feynman es más digno de respeto, admiración y atención que cualquiera de los candidatos a Autoridad de la ULA. Sobre todo de algunos que pretenden hacerse inmunes a las críticas y son sordos a cualquier diálogo, a aquellos que profieren amenazas e intentan silenciar con miedo.

No podemos asumir que las decisiones de una autoridad son correctas sólo porque posean un cargo o porque sean más viejos. No podemos callar ante lo que sabemos no es correcto sólo porque la autoridad sea quien dice la mentira o comete la injusticia. No podemos permitirles que se crean omnipotentes y traten de silenciar con el miedo a represalias. Después de todo la Universidad, ¿No es la Casa que vence las Sombras?, ¿No debe ser la cuna del debate y la defensora de la libertad de expresión?

Presto más atención a los consejos de Feynman que a cualquier amenaza de cualquiera de ellos.

Transcripción:

One of the things that my father taught me besides physics - whether it's correct or not - was a disrespect for respectable... for certain kinds of things. For example, when I was a little boy, and a rotogravure - that's printed pictures in newspapers - first came out in the New York Times, he used to sit me again on his knee and he'd open a picture, and there was a picture of the Pope and everybody bowing in front of him.

And he'd say, "Now look at these humans. Here is one human standing here, and all these others are bowing. Now what is the difference? This one is the Pope" - he hated teh Pope anyway - and he'd say, "the difference is epaulettes" - of course not in the case of the Pope, but if he was a general - it was always the uniform, the position, "but this man has the same human problems, he eats dinner like anybody else, he goes to the bathroom, he has the same kind of problems as everybody, he's a human being.

Why are they all bowing to him? Only because of his name and his position, because of his uniform, not because of something special he did, or his honour, or something like that." He, by the way, was in the uniform business, so he knew what the difference was between the man with the uniform off and the uniform on: it's the same man for him.