Jimmy Stewart dixit

Acá en BlogBis más de una vez le he dedicado párrafos críticos a la tradición argentina de organizar congresos, conferencias y seminarios para que analizar, evaluar, discutir, diseccionar, y alambicar interpretaciones sobre la permanente degradación del sistema republicano, las amenazas a la libertad, las malversaciones del sistema democrático y las corruptelas del sistema político. Más alla de la charla, poco.

Por eso me gustó una frase que publica hoy Samizdata que no es de ningún intelectual de academia sino de alguien que supo defender la libertad con su pellejo: James Stewart (*):

"Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day and say: I'm free to think and to speak."

(*) Leo en Flying with Jimmy Stewart: Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor, Jimmy Stewart, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940, before the United States entered World War II. He became a bombardier instructor and, later, a B-17 bomber pilot.

In 1943, he was transferred to the Eighth Air Force, stationed in England, as a member of the 445th Bomb Group. While with the Eighth Air Force, he flew 25 combat missions, some of them as a Command Pilot. The name of Stewart's aircraft was Four Yanks and a Jerk.