{"id":6288,"date":"2011-05-02T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lospoliticosveracruz.com.mx\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2014-10-09T03:41:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T03:41:35","slug":"cero-en-lectura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lospoliticosveracruz.com\/?p=6288","title":{"rendered":"Cero en lectura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jorge Arturo Rodr\u00edguez<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Tierra de Babel<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u00bfCu\u00e1ntos libros lee usted al a\u00f1o?\u201d, maldita interrogante que nos la avientan cada vez que pueden y dale que chingan anualmente con motivo del D\u00eda Mundial del Libro que se celebra el 23 de abril. Pero qu\u00e9 necedad, si ya sabemos que los mexicanos no leemos ni madre, ya pa\u2019 qu\u00e9 la desdichada y gastada pregunta, si estamos en lo cierto que poquitos mexicanos apenas si alcanzamos a leer un libro al a\u00f1o, con lo que obtenemos el puesto n\u00famero 107 a nivel mundial, de 108 pa\u00edses que integran la lista. S\u00ed, vaya, que somos el segundo lugar, pero de atr\u00e1s pa\u2019 delante, nos seamos tan pesimista, caramba.<br \/> Con decirles que la \u201cEncuesta Nacional de h\u00e1bitos, pr\u00e1cticas y consumo culturales\u201d del 2010\u201d, nos informa que en M\u00e9xico s\u00f3lo el 27 por ciento de los encuestados ha le\u00eddo por lo menos un libro, a diferencia del Reino Unido, con el 82 por ciento; Francia, el 71 por ciento; Espa\u00f1a, el 59 por ciento\u2026 pa\u2019 qu\u00e9 madres nos seguimos mortificando.<br \/> Pero creo que nos encanta el masoquismo, chingarnos a nosotros mismos, as\u00ed que fig\u00farense que seg\u00fan esta misma \u201cEncuesta\u2026\u201d, a pregunta de que si alguna vez usted ha ido a una librer\u00eda o tienda donde vendan \u00fanicamente libros, nosotros los chingones mexicanos salimos con estos resultados: 57 por ciento dijo que \u201cni maiz paloma\u201d; 41 por que \u201cclarines\u201d, y el 2 por ciento restante que no recuerda o no contest\u00f3. <br \/> Y en Veracruz, a esta misma pregunta, respondieron: el 60 por ciento que ni madres; el 37 por ciento que sim\u00f3n y el 3 por ciento restante que no sabe y no fastidien.<br \/> Pos yo no s\u00e9 ustedes, mis caros lectores y lectoras fans, pero creo que no hay que estar atiborrando de libros nuestras bibliotecas y mucho menos que leamos a lo pendejo. Como escribi\u00f3 Juan Domingo Arg\u00fcelles: \u201cEs bueno leer libros, con tal de que los libros agucen nuestros sentidos y nuestro pensamiento, activen y reactiven nuestro cerebro, para pensar en lo que estamos leyendo o en lo que ya hemos le\u00eddo, y enriquecer esa experiencia de la lectura con nuestra propia reflexi\u00f3n aut\u00f3noma. De otro modo, leer es s\u00f3lo un buen pasatiempo que, en su peor extremo, puede hacernos creer que somos sabios. Los libros deber\u00edan ense\u00f1arnos a dudar, incluso de los libros, pues nada se compara con la experiencia propia de hallar respuestas, no necesariamente escritas, a lo que nos inquieta, nos perturba o simplemente nos interesa. Hay que dudar incluso de la duda, es decir del propio pensamiento\u201d.<br \/>Lo que me recuerda un hermoso cuento, \u201cCero en Geometr\u00eda\u201d, de Frederic Brown, y que aqu\u00ed se los dejo (porque no hay mejor manera de celebrar que leyendo):<br \/>\u201cHenry mir\u00f3 el reloj. Dos de la madrugada. Cerr\u00f3 el libro con desesperaci\u00f3n. Seguramente que ma\u00f1ana ser\u00eda reprobado. Entre m\u00e1s quer\u00eda hundirse en la geometr\u00eda, menos la entend\u00eda. Dos fracasos ya, y sin duda iba a perder un a\u00f1o. S\u00f3lo un milagro podr\u00eda salvarlo. Se levant\u00f3 \u00bfUn milagro? \u00bfY por qu\u00e9 no? Siempre se hab\u00eda interesado en la magia. Ten\u00eda libros. Hab\u00eda encontrado instrucciones sencill\u00edsimas para llamar a los demonios y someterlos a su voluntad. Nunca hab\u00eda hecho la prueba. Era el momento, ahora o nunca.<br \/>Sac\u00f3 del estante el mejor libro sobre magia negra. Era f\u00e1cil. Algunas f\u00f3rmulas. Ponerse al abrigo en un pent\u00e1gono. El demonio llega. No puede nada contra uno, y se obtiene lo que se quiera. Probemos.<br \/>Movi\u00f3 los muebles hacia la pared, dejando el suelo limpio. Despu\u00e9s dibuj\u00f3 sobre el piso, con un gis, el pent\u00e1gono protector. Y despu\u00e9s, pronunci\u00f3 las palabras cabal\u00edsticas. El demonio era horrible de verdad, pero Henry hizo acopio de valor y se dispuso a dictar su voluntad.<br \/>-Siempre he tenido cero en geometr\u00eda -empez\u00f3.<br \/>-A qui\u00e9n se lo dices\u2026 -contest\u00f3 el demonio con burla.<br \/>Y salt\u00f3 las l\u00edneas del hex\u00e1gono para devorar a Henry, que el muy idiota hab\u00eda dibujado en lugar de un pent\u00e1gono\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hasta la pr\u00f3xima<br \/>jarl63@yahoo.com.mx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Arturo Rodr\u00edguezTierra de Babel \u201c\u00bfCu\u00e1ntos libros lee usted al a\u00f1o?\u201d, maldita interrogante que nos la avientan cada vez que pueden y dale que chingan anualmente con motivo del D\u00eda Mundial del Libro que se celebra el 23 de abril. Pero qu\u00e9 necedad, si ya sabemos que los mexicanos no leemos ni madre, ya pa\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sin-categoria"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cero en lectura - Los pol\u00edticos Veracruz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lospoliticosveracruz.com\/?p=6288\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cero en lectura - Los pol\u00edticos Veracruz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jorge Arturo Rodr\u00edguezTierra de Babel \u201c\u00bfCu\u00e1ntos libros lee usted al a\u00f1o?\u201d, maldita interrogante que nos la avientan cada vez que pueden y dale que chingan anualmente con motivo del D\u00eda Mundial del Libro que se celebra el 23 de abril. 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