{"id":26427,"date":"2009-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/obstinate-individualism\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:32:12","slug":"obstinate-individualism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/obstinate-individualism\/","title":{"rendered":"Obstinate individualism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HACE MUCHOS A\u00d1OS, EN MEDELL\u00cdN, hab\u00eda un letrero en el puente de la calle 33 que dec\u00eda \u201cSi esto no es progreso, \u00bfentonces qu\u00e9 es?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Con el paso de los a\u00f1os el letrero se fue borrando, pero la idea de que el pa\u00eds s\u00f3lo se desarrolla vaci\u00e1ndole cemento armado encima sigue casi intacta entre nosotros. Desde luego que las obras p\u00fablicas son importantes. Si tuvi\u00e9ramos mejores carreteras, mejores puertos y m\u00e1s acueductos estar\u00edamos m\u00e1s cerca del desarrollo. Pero la infraestructura f\u00edsica, si bien es indispensable, no lo es todo. M\u00e1s a\u00fan, pensar que eso es lo \u00fanico, es tambi\u00e9n parte del problema. El subdesarrollo tambi\u00e9n es mental, cultural.<\/p>\n<p>El atraso cultural tiene muchas facetas. La falta de investigaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica, el bajo porcentaje de personas que lee peri\u00f3dicos, la ausencia de doctores (de los de verdad) y la falta de bibliotecas p\u00fablicas son algunas de ellas. Pero hay algo tal vez m\u00e1s importante que todo lo anterior, aunque menos palpable y m\u00e1s dif\u00edcil de conseguir. Me refiero a la capacidad para actuar colectivamente, como sociedad. Nadie lo ha dicho tan claramente como el profesor Yu Takeuchi, un japon\u00e9s que vivi\u00f3 en Colombia por m\u00e1s de 50 a\u00f1os. Cuando le preguntaron cu\u00e1l era la principal diferencia entre los japoneses y los colombianos, su respuesta fue esta: \u201cPues mire \u2014dijo\u2014, un colombiano es m\u00e1s inteligente que un japon\u00e9s, pero dos japoneses son m\u00e1s inteligentes que dos colombianos\u201d. La explicaci\u00f3n de Takeuchi supone que un pa\u00eds es algo m\u00e1s, mucho m\u00e1s, que los individuos que lo componen. Un pa\u00eds es tambi\u00e9n, y sobre todo, un alma social, o como dicen ahora, una identidad colectiva. Es en eso que estamos muy mal.<\/p>\n<p>En Colombia hay muchos individuos pero muy poca sociedad. Tenemos personajes sobresalientes \u2014no muchos, la verdad\u2014 pero casi no tenemos empresas colectivas destacadas. Ni siquiera en el f\u00fatbol somos capaces de armar un conjunto que valga la pena. Menos en pol\u00edtica. El presidente Uribe cuenta con grandes mayor\u00edas en el Congreso y en la sociedad, pero no es capaz de gobernar sin ofrecer notar\u00edas, subsidios y puestos para que voten por \u00e9l. Somos buenos patriotas pero malos ciudadanos. Nos sublevamos cuando Ch\u00e1vez habla mal de Colombia pero somos incapaces de crear un partido pol\u00edtico serio. Hacemos puentes sobre los r\u00edos \u2014tampoco muchos, la verdad\u2014 pero somos incapaces de acabar con la corrupci\u00f3n que acompa\u00f1a los procesos de licitaci\u00f3n para las obras p\u00fablicas.<\/p>\n<p>Nuestro esp\u00edritu gregario se concentra en la familia y en las amistades. M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de estos entornos privados, lo social es una competencia, un mundo dominado por la desconfianza y la trastada.<\/p>\n<p>Muchos colombianos que viven en el exterior se quejan del individualismo de los europeos o de los estadounidenses. Es cierto que all\u00ed la familia y los amigos tienen menor importancia que entre nosotros, pero su individualismo est\u00e1 fundado en el respeto de reglas comunes y en la defensa de los intereses tanto privados como colectivos. El nuestro, en cambio, es un individualismo ind\u00f3mito que descree no s\u00f3lo de los dem\u00e1s sino de lo p\u00fablico. Aqu\u00ed cada colombiano es un Estado soberano.<\/p>\n<p>Pero el individualismo criollo no s\u00f3lo es salvaje y asocial, sino tambi\u00e9n majadero: al preferir la estrategia del vivo, todos terminamos bloque\u00e1ndonos los unos a los otros, como en el tr\u00e1fico o en la fila, y por eso terminamos peor \u2014llegando m\u00e1s tarde\u2014 que si hubi\u00e9semos pensado como ciudadanos. \u00bfSi eso no es atraso, entonces qu\u00e9 es?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, in Medell\u00edn, there was a placard in the bridge of St. 33 that said &#8221; If this isn&#8217;t progress then what is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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