It can even be
asserted that culture is the name that the ignorant give to the ideology they
practice without being aware of it.
It is not
surprising, therefore, that in a context of this nature, postmodern pedagogy
becomes the rhetoric used by, and entrenched in by, teachers lacking
intelligence. In this sense, pedagogy is the primary simulation of
intelligence. Just as it is also the greatest presumption of lacking it. As is
also the case with philosophy, ideology, or religion, or any other form of
uncritical knowledge of import, reproduced or recited without properly grounded
knowledge. In such a context, a pedagogue is one who teaches what they do not
know. And the same can be said of the ideologue or the philosopher of the
moment. They are media forms of exercising sophistry.
It is
necessary to expose, in this context, the sinister pact between the Cross and
the Pen. The humanists of the Modern Age, whose prototypes are better
represented by the moralistic philologist Erasmus and the uncritical essayist
Montaigne, refer to the world as an enemy of the "soul," a scenario
of political and warlike problems derived from conflicts between Man and God, a
battlefield between God (Good) and the Devil (Evil) for the control of human
wills. In this sense, such humanists have always recommended prudence,
austerity, asceticism, and have adopted a "moralistic" stance, from
which to make their work compatible with the demands and imperatives of the
Catholic and Protestant Churches. The tacit pact between the Pen and the Cross,
between humanists and the clergy, between men of Letters and men of the Church,
reaches its maximum expression here. Humanists like Erasmus and Montaigne would
have obediently agreed with the Church to a sort of "non-aggression
treaty," according to which the humanist develops their activity with
freedoms that are always compatible with the theological imperatives of the
Church, in exchange for which the men of the Church will offer them their
connivance and even their respects. And collaboration. Of course, also their institutional
and ecclesiastical protection. The result is a murky alliance.
Today's humanists have exchanged obsequiousness and submission to the ...
