Gastón Soublette once again challenges us with “Manifesto”, a new book about the crisis we are still in (social outbreak and pandemic) and for which there is no clear end in sight. Soublette is our chilean Isaías: “Voice crying out in the desert.”
[…] This is not a book by a political analyst or a crisis expert, it is instead a book by a man of great intuitions and insights. Soublette fits the category of “sage” better than the philosopher. T.S. Elliot wondered: “Where was the wisdom that became knowledge / where the knowledge that degraded into information?” In fact, for Soublette, the loss of popular wisdom is related to the loss of community and the decline of culture, with the anguished sense of rootlessness that this produces. For Soublette, the social outbreak and the pandemic are just the tip of the iceberg of a global civilizational and cultural crisis, a crisis that requires a new response, a new paradigm”. Cristián Warnken. El Mercurio 07/30/2020