Me quejo, luego existo. Discutimos la queja, luego existimos.

Leyendo leyendo, me tope con este párrafo de Michael Walzer en su
libro, The Company Of Critics: Social Criticsm And Political Commitment
In The Twentieth Century:

Complaint is one of the elementary forms of self-assertion,   and
the response to complaint is one of the elementary forms of  mutual
recognition. When what is at issue is not existence itself but social 
existence, being-for-others, then complaint is proof enough: I
complain,  therefore I am. We discuss the complaint, therefore we are.

And just as  Descartes's Cogito is not the end of cogitation-as if he
had said that having  demonstrated his existence by thinking, he could
now exist without further  thought-but rather the very beginning, so "I
complain" is only the beginning   of the history of complaint. In the
course of social existence, the  practice of complaining is steadily
elaborated-in satire, polemic, exhortation,   indictment, prophecy, and
countless other common and specialized  ways.

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