(I wrote this a few months ago. But beside the point, I think, since there are some data today, which should think carefully. And although the text does not refer directly to a concrete fact that taking place these days, it is that thinking is also thinking this type of message.) March 25, the C5N released a video entitled "Touching message to the Argentines," conceived and told by Oscar "The Black" Gold
In general criticism of the video I read in the sense of the rough and treacherous copy the journalist made a Mexican video, uploaded to YouTube in March 2008 by Elwey Maska Brown.
And it is true, plagiarism is undeniable: It is a replica in the vast majority of his words and concepts. The copy is even more outrageous when you consider that the video is, in essence, a critique of native resiliency, but far is to start by saying something like " I'll make my own the words of a Mexican video, because I think that can help us to think blah, blah, blah ... " . Aside from the clarification made before putting on the air: a sea of \u200b\u200bdifference between "bring the text" as he defines it, and copy. Forewarned that a traitor, but is a chantada chantada. Although copying is not absolute. And that there are material to cut.
But what worries me is that what I have not read much, if anything, in all this time, it's about video content. And that's where I think that is what is harmful. Much more harmful than the act of copying.
original Unlike the Aztec, Argentina copy omits the media. If Gonzalez Oro is the speaker of the copy, not be asked to speak to the media. It would be cumbersome dodge how his friend and boss got his radio Hadad, among other things. Or that same friend when she had her air television Tinelli had on its staff, which is the type of programs to which the Mexican video referred to as the "industry of stupidity."
But one thing both have in common and that is really dangerous: seeing, it seems that the past presidents were / are unable to do anything to improve our country because, Mexican and Argentina, we are all jerks who do not rather than wasting all these selfless heroes.
Let us, the Argentine people: we are, yes, a little jerks, rather mediocre on average and there is a tendency to think we are very "live " robbing the neighbor or evading laws, taxes or wastebaskets. But this "defective raw materials" the video says, is the wood that built these characters who govern us and are no less alive than cagadores or ordinary citizens. Quite the contrary: they are garcas with power. They things much more serious than stealing a signal cable, is wrong, but do not starve a baby Toba in Chaco. Rivadavia And here, all made their contribution to no less that we are now as we are.
On another of the things that the video says: "anyone who buys a diver" Trout "of a first sports brand is Menem thief? Buy a diver trucho disables me to complain about fraud bureaus and our rulers? Is that one brand does not make us any harm burning our heads with its advertising and celebrities who We all want to look like on all those who may be less critical attitude to the media? Is that not stealing sports brand paying 1 cent per diver-slave workers from Southeast Asia to sell the diver to $ 100?
Another beads of both videos, but especially acute in version González Oro, given the history of Argentina and the date of issue of the video (one day after the anniversary of coup of 1976): falsely ask us if we need a dictatorship that we enforce the law by force. There can be serious. O is fool or a cynic. "What made the National Reorganization Process was to make us obey the law by force? "The abduction, torture, the bodies were thrown into the river to make us obey the law? "What made Martinez de Hoz was enforcing the law? Or do you see as the sinister responsible for the devastation of much of the domestic industry because we are a defective raw materials?
But even going to a more general level, since beyond the Mexican video: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, Saddam Hussein, all dictators in history " what do or did was to enforce the law by force? Is it due to the dictators in Iceland or Denmark people are not more than one day out of the machines that mention the two videos, or would yield to a pedestrian or not throw the package of gum in the street? What we are suggesting is that the definition of dictatorship is: said the government forcing law enforcement to defective raw material that can not live in a democracy. I fear these videos.
The video talks about how gifted Mexican oil. It is rare for being so faithful a copy of Gonzalez Oro in other passages, he has forgotten to address that topic. It is extremely suggestive themes index forgotten in the local version.
Since it was not as faithful a copy, we could say that another "forgotten" Gonzalez Oro and its adaptation was neglecting the significant share of racism and xenophobia, which more or less subtlety reigns, especially in our middle class. And no less an oversight. First because it allows so subliminal, slide the "Negroes" (shit, because we are) that make pickets are defective raw material (after we see whether or not reasonable as a means of protest, that's another subject.) Second, because it just graze him, who once said with disgust "but what an Indian will be president of Boliiva?." It is clear that González Oro, even to say "everyone", some material seems more defective than another.
For my taste, the most serious of this video is that with that kind of common sense that makes it seem so "reasonable " for some tastes, emphasizes certain details about the latest Argentine presidents, leaving aside questions much deeper: Menem was the worst of its corruption? "Worst of De la Rua was his " ineptitude " ? "Duhalde was the worst of his gangster character? "Nestor was the worst thing to bring back the montoneros? Worst thing about Christina is not good for nothing? "Is not running the video with the shell to not delve into the system, culture and poverty that they have all this installed defective raw materials and, if anything, is going to deteriorate, precisely, that matter premium?
So strong is the mark of political correctness that have this video, but wallow in the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing a strong questioning of our national identity, which notoriously leaves out the list of questions to former president Raul Alfonsin, a boarding school acute lung problem that would lead to death 6 days after this broadcast.
We are not a gem as a people. That is clear. But our leaders are not heroes powerless over a defective raw material. And that the video is slipping. Or he hides it on purpose?
Nor can we fail to take a look into the manipulation of images, that arrives to the obscene. See the passage in which Gonzalez Gold says, speaking of presidents, " so nobody will " while the picture shows nothing less than the statue of Manuel Belgrano (hero upright and honest if any, died in an economic situation that staff are far from any of our politicians that nothing can be done with such material). Immediately after we see Menem with Mick Jagger. That is manipulation. Viveza criolla who defends powerful interests.
But do not forget the Mexican video. "All Mexicans are to blame for that drug trafficking has taken over your country? Mexico is bleeding on this issue and cartels will not stop growing, but the video or names that matter. Plus: the PRI could not do that Mexico is a strong country, there are no poor or unemployed after 70 uninterrupted years in power only because Mexicans are bad material?
reminded me when the Gran Rex theater in Buenos Aires a few years ago, Laurie Anderson sang "Poor Mexico / so far from God / so close to the United States " .
Otherwise, all we have to look in the mirror, as we recommend the video, hairstyles and see what we can do to be better every day. But knowing what to say that we all have to blame is like saying that the fault is not anyone. But above all that something smells bad when we say that the shit we are the ordinary and that's our fault our leaders can not become a world power.
And as we look in the mirror, we would do well to ask: Who might want to think that?
(saying something that may be similar, but, unlike the video of Gonzalez Oro, our government does not bail out as heroes helpless to our ineptitude, is told by Martin Caparros in column in the Daily Review, which can be read here ).
