This October was published in The Blue Olive my novel THE WAR OF ARTEMIS. In my website http://www.andressorel.com/ can read a summary of the long study on it has made the writer and professor Jesus Felipe Martinez.
CONTENTS
The terror of the lapidary and left.
Euthanasia. Human rights. The
phrases. The evil of everyday language.
magazine Hello, miseries mirror and informative guide.
Aristocracies.
Almudena Grandes, a little more humility.
Discourse against intellectuals. Ferlosio and Goytisolo.
Contributions:
Juan Mayorga. 581
maps Esther Bartholomew-Pons. Where are you going, wise human being?
Lorenzo Martínez Aguilar. The tragedy of the San José mine in Chile
Iñaki Errazkin. Autocrítica
noisy What becomes everything.
Karl Kraus. 1917
"TODAY?
The terror of the stoning and left.
is reported. And the left just debate the issue. We talked about religion, judges, politicians, heads of state. In Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, other theocratic regimes, terrorism is the standard used against women living in their territories. It is normal to classify the term terrorism in the political concept, using it in your application as the interests of the dominant or dominated. The other forms of terrorism, including economic and religious, are ignored. Every war is a terrorist. It is therefore as terrorists, most would say it causes more casualties, the U.S. practiced their armies and weapons of all kinds in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, as the actions of the command who attacked the Twin Towers or meters in Madrid and London. We did not go far in this debate. but there is that other terrorism which we prefer not to talk, religious, carried out with the protection and even promotion of political powers, and not coincidentally found in women the main victims. Heirs of the Church Catholic teacher with book burnings, torture, public bonfires of heretics, crusades against the infidels, develop procedures as wild as it naturally protects and under the "rule of law and its judges." As the judges of the Franco regime. Live in terrible times when the thought of the official left before daze prefer to denounce these wretched cries theocratic societies, which, some for tactical issues, others by economic interests, forms of government established as moral and intellectual slavery of its citizens, and justify its laws, do not accept expressions of free thought, ideas and reasons and cultural habits and concepts alien to their murderers-feudal traditions and doctrines attributed to the gods and prophets that they themselves created. And those who justify their silence on the grounds that they are, these countries, victims of imperialism and capitalism, do not want to see they are today, will always be your faithful and reliable allies, as corrupt and exploitative as those who claim to defend.
And the last image, a woman stoned to death, but its high performing, it would be bizarre if not stupidity, disguised heartbreaking and cruel. Ahmadinejad is to , Iranian President's UN balndiendo in one hand and the Koran in the other Bible to justify the medieval doctrine, sheltering under the irrationality and the right to exercise dictatorial censorship and abominable terrorism against women in their own country.
Euthanasia. Human rights.
As we lose ourselves in sterile debates, Byzantine issues for months occupied the pages of newspapers, public controversy, referendums and parliamentary debates on topics such as bulls or institutional use of these rags daubed called flags, no presents in depth, with similar effort, not by old issues are no longer vital and are not resolved. Fear, conformity, irrationality? Perversion ideological and political opportunism, we would say. As a religious acceptance of suffering, pain, because they are divine commands. Euthanasia is not accepted, legislated as a need to avoid unnecessary suffering. The reason has always been, continue to be pursued. And do not give those who fight with their dogmas. In 1569 and the Calvinist Jean Crespin published these gnomic verses:
Or a life without regret or a happy death.
is beautiful to die when life is painful.
is better not to live to live with the pain.
What day a criminal, corrupt, cynical Today's character not as a weapon wielded his "respect for human rights" as a shield against their misdeeds? While torture, discrimination, social, cultural, economic, racism, exploitative laws, freedom of education, police and military power, walking free. Because in Spain, the United States, Morocco, Iran and China, to name a few countries, no one, except those condemned to silence, would throw into doubt that they respect human rights. As Albert Einstein wrote : "A large part of the story covers the struggle for human rights, an eternal struggle in which there will never be a definitive victory. But ESDA would falter in fighting the destruction of society. When talking about human rights today we refer primarily to the following basic rights: protecting the individual against encroachment abstract of their rights by others or the government, the right to work and receive adequate revenue for their work, freedom of discussion and education, adequate participation of the individual in the role of government and refusal to perform military service "
The cliches, bad language daily .
Walter Benjamin wrote on Karl Kraus: "Hate that Die Fackel pursues the line of reporters swarming is moral rather than a hatred of life, such as throwing an ancestor on a line of degenerate dwarfs. The very public expression produces horror Kraus. Kraus has met all its energies to combating the phrases, which are arbitrary linguistic expression that is now taking hold of things through journalism. "
In Spain, today, politicians , people of sport, culture, finance, information and opinion, "live" in these phrases, especially the men and women in political parties trade unions, parliamentarians, torment us every day with them as their main arguments innocuous, vacuous, inane speech argument. Expressions like "the money of the English" or its variant "with our money," "put the batteries", "open doors to the field," the million dollar question, "we go for them," "levels Hearing "," public opinion "," rule of law "," rule of law "," lack of leadership "," lack of manhood "" road map "," The truth is that "... We could go on, throwing the unfortunate language that surrounds us everywhere. So until the final blackout of language and ideas.
Hello magazine miseries mirror and informative guide.
Summer 2010. Continues the story of the corruption: Valencia, Catalunya, Castilla y León, Madrid, Galicia ... Who cares? The money from the corrupt is another fallacious definition: tax haven. Let us use the concepts diametrically different from its meaning should never be called termed as "financial havens for terrorists." Do you think the people that the money accumulated there could clean up the English economy and pensions, unemployment, economic and cultural investment would have a more social dimension? No. Well worry not think television programs, magazines they call the heart. Another mendacious definition! Why not the putición? Are we surprised that politicians vote or sloshing jaleen leaders as the most foul sewer giant frogs in English? The rich-poor people-talk about other things, with other languages, in the wake ue Hi leave and similar magazines. Now, in addition, these publications and occupy most of the schedule to get the largest audiences. Grills! What to roast to simmer the conscience of viewers? Authentic popular culture: of porters and taxi drivers, computer specialists or women executives, professionals of any kind. Now that is not the best seller Perez Reverte, Pérezzafones Falcones or shift! Let's see what they say and the people of Spain take on any given day through the deep information, graphics and text, which provides them with the Hi and reiterate the Tele 5, Antena 3, La Sexta, other televisions. It is the language and cultural food of our society:
"Letizia (princess) and Amaia, who is prettier?". "Two very straight gay: (or want to say cool?): Anas Millán and Imanol Arias" Rafa's ex Camino has answers "(No need to explain that you see in the picture)" Feli and Verdasco (tennis, of course). Chulito on the beach. "Selena Gamez is to be out." Kelli Brook: This body has an owner. "He goes with his girlfriend tit. And these headlines, graphics and reports, dealing with a single number.
Prostitution and mafias. Money for newspapers and magazines. Corruption and brick. More funds for auxiliaries. The rule of law, right? Democracy: voters do not need the ritual qaue thoughts. And aristocracy, nobility, luxury, high finance, fashion, cultures putición magazines.
Aristocracy.
How long will continue drooling media attention and providing information support to all that crowd of Marquises, dukes, counts, baronesses, princes, etc. auténticoa parasites that are unable to abolish society? Proust, the writer sometimes simply referring to topical phrases, mainly to "imagine, reader, yesterday I dipped in my tea a cupcake, and I suddenly remembered that a child had been in the field" is a of the writers who best portrayed this damned mob that takes centuries imposing their yoke upon the people. In a few lines Walter Benjamin puts it : "In the treasury of prejudice and the highest of high society there is not one that is not in fact destroyed by the comedy of their chatter peligrtosa ... And shatters the unity of the family and personality, sexual morality and honor. Proust described a class that, everywhere, is forced to disguise their base material, so it has formed a feudalism, in itself devoid of economic significance, it serves as a mask to the big bourgeoisie. "
seems so logical, given his political misery, moral and human, that mayors like Sevilla, Socialist party officials, officials of the PP, and of course managers, drivers, announcers trash media called for information, decorations or jaleen them. What hurts us is that there who portrays with sarcasm and realism to Felipe, Letizia, Gunila, Alba, Franco, Romanones, Calvo Sotelo, Siruela, etc. Or are these parasites as fools who do not give for that?
The ever living continues today in the vision of genius, William Shakespeare, King Lear , II, 4:
For the sake of your horse hay smeared with butter.
Almudena Grandes, a little more humility.
When the publishing industry discovered a writer or writer who believes can yield significant benefits more or less, do not hesitate to squeeze to the limit. As they wear over time and reduces its sales, will leave to replace it with another without consideration. Meanwhile, the writer, obsessed with its flashing light, loses the ability to analyze, is filled with pride and just think to take advantage of the price situation moral, ethical and literary it is. At that height the media also exploited ad nauseam, is Almudena Grandes. We will not speak of his narrative. If we stop at the thought it deserves its advertising claims and projection has been in continuous days multiplied newspapers, radios and televisions, with more interviews coming verbiage in literary analysis. Talks about his new novel as a theme discovery itself, hypertrophy of who believes what she thinks and says has to accept as true all the world, and explains to the reader has discovered hitherto unknown facts, such as invasion guerrilla Aran Valley in the aftermath of the Second World War by English Communists and "the love of Francis Anton and Passion." Manuel Azcarate quoted as a document that allowed him to narrate what had hitherto been treated. No one comes to pass. Nor I am going to do, or insurance Gregory Moran, Secundino Serrano, Manuel Martorell, Santiago Álvarez, Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Fernando Claudin, and many others, anarchists, communists, historians, ex-guerrillas, who wrote about these issues (my first book that dates from about 1969) as the Apparently "unpublished" until she "discovered." The lack of humility to do an analysis of these triempos "dark" and themes so involved in controversial historical events, in which the human is mixed with politics, sacrifice and Stalinist practices of the Franco regime's main opposition party, greens well in the edeclaraciones who undoubtedly prefer sensationalism to reflection, and think that culture begins and ends his poor background in literary, historical and philosophical. Before his words only remains for us the embarrassment and silence. Address
against intellectuals. 4. Ferlosio and Goytisolo.
Sometimes when you meet another writer, no matter their name, ask you what you write. If you say you've finished a book, you will not be challenged demandándote the subject, literary approach, but where you publish. And immediately insist: what did you do the above, how many copies were sold, and the press how you treated?
makes you want to respond with words of Torquato Tasso in The Jerusalem Delivered. course before you ask: What about that, it sells a lot?
"The fame that fascinates with its sweet are the proud fatal and it looks so beautiful, is an echo, a dream, but rather the shadow of a dream that, at lower wind dissipates, fades" .
Think, think, communicate, talk, get high with doubts, giving up the easy, ephemeral, working outside the while knowing that he has to devour without mercy, trying not to become a clown, a buffoon who makes them laugh with their shrillness and genuflecting, is a difficult road, but the only that can define an intellectual and taking you away from the galaxy of those who usurp the concept. And in this discourse against intellectuals can not miss the words of those who do not exercise as such, they are, in the ontological concept, really their true representatives ..
Ferlosio Rafael Sanchez. Forging a hack. 1977.
"I still write with the old desire to be right, to convince someone of something I think is true, both the doubt of everything" right "as the discouragement of failing to convince anyone of anything never encouraged me every less to publish, but keep writing and writing eternally ... First committed "prose" or the beautiful page ( Alfanhui) , then I wanted to have fun with speech ( The Jarama) and finally, after many years of grammar, I found the language ... The culture industry or the industrialization of culture has so much extreme rigor of the law enforcement narrative, especially from the cinema ... strange no longer even the increasingly myopic, more and more condescending desavisada acceptance of the screed and infinitely repetitive narrative conventions rule by enlightened people ... To the cream of the intelligentsia is serious filth not only aesthetic but also ideological, as or Casablanca Gone with the Wind ... The supreme paradigm of such an educational role is, of course, Walt Disney, the great corruptor of children and the greatest catastrophe aesthetic, moral and cultural, of the twentieth century. Everything usually starts with the aesthetics, because the first thing that comes is the Ugliness, Stupidity then, and finally the Evil ".
To delve into the deep ethical and literary meaning of these words and reflect the criteria that would deserve Juan Goytisolo:
"The free model love to know what I tried unprofitable contemporary writer who deserves me greater appreciation: I talk about Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio. After this little literary gem, Alfanhui and success of Jarama, suddenly abandoned his career promised to be delivered entirely novel, for many years, what we mean by transformational grammar today after the publication of Noam Chomsky of aspects of the theory of syntax ... The lure of disinterested knowledge, from his goad curiosity and love of disciplines as diverse as those magnet to scholars and monks of the Middle Ages, I guess as feather it works yet so harmonious and dispersed more years will come as bad, wrong and cursed Those Indies, Yafoz Testament, the forging of a hack. "
Today most of the English intellectuals appear more committed than ever to the misery of our culture and the brutal oppression of capitalism in their silence or their subjection to the laws of the market and sale of advertising. Joining them illiterate arrogant swagger even writing or talking about it and there is no commitment on the left. Of course, the officers left their servility do much for giving them the right and pay them even worship of allegiance. writers or scientists or bestsellerizados winners have little to do with the rigor So a real Albert Einstein intellectual embodies this subject, words that confirm our discourse on intellectuals:
"I've never made any systematic effort to improve the lot of men, to fight injustice and repression and to improve ways traditional relationships. I just did this, with long intervals expressed my opinion on public issues whenever I look so unhappy and negative silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity (emphasis mine) ... trivial objects human efforts (possessions, public success, luxury) seemed to me contemptible. We guard against preaching to young people success in the usual sense, as the aim of life. "
COLLABORATIONS
JUAN MAYORGA
581 maps
Lezcano-16: "Addresses of football referees residing in Madrid. The color of the small circle indicates the category in which pita the referee in question.
Muñoz "There's another with addresses of judges, right? Is 31?
Hermida-El 35.
Lezcano "Here it is. The houses are also marked by category. Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, High Court ...
Muñoz-How has obtained the home addresses of all those people?
Hermida I have not earned. The data supplied to me. I just I give graphic expression.
Muñoz-is one of those people who has put in our knowledge of the existence of their maps. Considers that the publication where you live will put you in danger.
Hermida A judge?
Muñoz-A umpire.
Hermida "I doubt that whoever commissioned this map I have nothing against the umpires.
Muñoz-one has complained also neighborhood association. Are upset with that of drunkenness.
Hermida-89: "Number of alcohol per one thousand inhabitants."
Muñoz-The area that they felt stigmatized.
Hermida "Sorry.
Muñoz- Why orange? Why a high concentration of drunks in orange?
Hermida is Orange particularity that ...
Lezcano-Do you accept any map that you charge?
Hermida-De Madrid. Only in Madrid. Do not dare to map elsewhere.
Muñoz-Likes Madrid.
Hermida-No. But is the city that I have in mind. I can tell you the shortest path between user and the valley and many kiosks will be found from here to the Prado Museum.
-Lezcano You do any kind of map of Madrid. No matter what.
Hermida-business is the key. The idea came from my older sister when I lost my job in the publishing of schoolbooks. My sister made me realize that are many maps, tons of maps, but most have nothing to do with the true interests of the people. What are you worth the location of monuments when stamp collecting is your thing? What do the green areas if you're interested in pornography? It was my sister who gave me the idea of \u200b\u200bpersonal maps. I did not see clearly, but I thought: What I have to lose? My little brother, which is computer, shaped the idea: www.mipropiomapa.com .
Lezcano "You are a very close family.
Hermida-The difference with mapping for books is that you can constantly change, as you have new data.
Muñoz-This was the first, right? "Pet Stores."
Hermida-Yes
Lezcano-Three hundred twelve maps. It seems incredible that you have done all in less than a month.
Hermida "Actually I have done more. Just hangs a map if you want the client. I made five hundred seventy-nine. If the business continues to grow, I'll have to put people.
Silence.
Lezcano Five hundred seventy-nine maps of twenty-six days.
Hermida-In twenty-three. Sunday unemployment.
Lezcano-Can we do a test?
Hermida-¿?
Muñoz-A demonstration. We would like to see how.
Hermida-course.
Muñoz-What do you need? "Folio?," Card? ...
Hermida-Din A-3.
Muñoz-Din A-3. "Pencils? "Wax? ...
Hermida-Pencils. Faber, 17.
Muñoz-Anything else? A coffee?
Hermida Thanks. With milk, no sugar.
Muñoz-Can I get you something to you?
Lezcano denies. Muñoz sale. Silence.
Lezcano "So the supply data. The field work, so to speak, otherwise the customer.
Hermida-Right.
Lezcano-245: Places visited by the deputy Flórez from 1 June and has spent time in those places. " You have not followed the deputy Flórez. You have not been in his office in Parliament.
Hermida "No, no.
Lezcano-The map is signed "Hummingbird."
Hermida "It must be an alias.
Lezcano "Probably.
Silence.
Some of his clients are real sick.
Hermida "People have problems.
Lezcano-Most of the maps are crap.
Hermida Many have no scientific value, I know. Some are pure fantasy. 48: "Shelter fairies, elves and gnomes." 77: "Places you've walked a sleepwalker." 142: "Women with whom I've slept." But others ...
Lezcano-Most are crap.
Hermida I'm not saying he has not drawn any uncomfortable. But who am I to decide whether a map should be done or not?
Silence. Until it returns Muñoz, putting Hermida to everything he asked. And a list of words and numbers.
Muñoz-Alijos seized in Madrid in the last five years. There is everything outlets, substances, quantities and dates.
Hermida goes to work. Munoz looks at his watch. Silence.
Hermida-The hardest thing is to set the code. The hard part is deciding if you are using shades or colors or shapes. The hard part is expressed in the simplest possible way the image the customer has in mind. The map has to talk at first sight.
Keep working. Silence.
Lezcano-113: "Places where you can boo the national anthem."
Muñoz-It's a business. Mr. Hermida money does not have an ideological implication in the matter. Another thing is that he may have gotten out of hand. But recognize that there are some good maps, useful maps. 206: "Madrid to beggars." Where to eat cap, where to stay free ... Note: beg points where color coded.
Hermida-Madrid of the beggars are not the same as the Madrid of the bankers or those who speak Latin.
Muñoz-159: "Cheap Hotels clean." I would have been fine when the divorce.
Hermida Madrid is not the same when you're fifteen years that when you turned forty. Your map changes to your life.
Muñoz-Over divorce, I became a store map. And just go where there are offers. Do you remember how I dressed before?
Hermida-"Chinese Businesses." "Methadone Clinics." "Men statue." There he hangs up his map because it can help others. "Shop where the seller is nice." "Probability of being mugged in the light of day of week and time."
Silence. Hermida ends the map. Munoz looks at his watch. Muñoz Lezcano and look at the map.
Muñoz-is very eloquent. You should work with us.
Hermida-At school, the only thing I was good.
Lezcano-maps are useful, of course. But useful for what?
Muñoz-My friend thinks that some of their maps are another thing they claim to represent. For example, 71: "Graffiti." What my friend is here ... why do not you explain yourself?
Lezcano-Most of the maps are litter, a smokescreen to distract from the important. The important may be the most stupid apparently. "Graffiti" for example.
Muñoz-What twisted. What mania never satisfied with the simplest explanation.
Lezcano-As my friend and I agree that there is enough material here to put you before a judge.
Muñoz "But we disagree on the price they would pay the judge for drawing the maps. I am of the view that the responsibility should lie with whom they have been responsible.
Lezcano "In any case, the judge who would reveal their sources. As will locate all these guys, but we will soon if you tell us what you know about them.
Muñoz-Taking for granted that most of these maps, and therefore its inspiring, they are absolutely innocent.
-Lezcano Would grace, right? We draw a map with addresses of its customers.
Silence.
Hermida I can not do. The majority do not know. Face to face, I mean. The majority sends the information via e-mail, the fee paid to a number and you're done. Some do, some want to explain yourself. Some believe that knows how to make your map, you'll come to see them laugh sketches. Others want to see you because they need to be clarified, because some people do not know what he wants. Many are loaded with prejudice. People are suspicious of the maps. What are fact, ninety percent of the maps? To move people to take you from one place to another. The maps should help you know where you live. Almost always used for the opposite, to confuse. What people want is a map that tells the truth. It is sometimes difficult, but no one has been unhappy, no one has ever asked to return the fee. For the first time in my life I feel useful. Yesterday I told my sister: "I used to work for a boss. Now I work for the people. "
Silence.
Lezcano-71: Bars where we do not get Moors. " 83: Places where I can say what they think about homosexuals. " 111: "squatting empty buildings, classified by desokupación time." 173: "Scenarios for the next civil war."
Muñoz-Do you know that insulting, inciting hatred, target setting for the violent crimes that she paid with jail?
Lezcano-A map showing where they live, the judges, who would be interested?
Muñoz If the Member Flórez has never been in "The Owl of Minerva", we face a slander. If you have been in "The Owl of Minerva" is a track illegal, a violation of privacy, perhaps a case of blackmail, espionage or terrorism. These charges will fall on you unless you help us locate "Hummingbird."
Silence.
Hermida could be a taxi driver, taxi drivers I have several clients. Or someone interested in politics and has chosen Flórez as it could have chosen any other. It is logical that a voter cares what the deputies spend their time. Or maybe someone who wants to help Flórez. If Flórez see this map, you may choose to edit, expand their movement. "Hummingbird" could be the wife of Flórez, or own Flórez. Many maps are autobiographical. "My job." "Where would you like to be and I've never been." "Where I have no fear." "Where have I seen that girl." "Where I have come across people who read Dostoyevsky." "Where me, black man of twenty years I have been an hour without bothering to come to the police. " "Places where the word" Atalaya "cause surprise." "Locations have made me feel like crap." "Places where I've been happy." There are customers that use them as a diary, a confession.
Silence.
The map of the judges may want us to see that almost all live in a few neighborhoods. And there are neighborhoods where there are no. You may want to show that people living in neighborhoods deemed to people living in other neighborhoods. If you look, the referees First Division also tend to reside in a few neighborhoods. Comparing maps of occupations, for example, bankers and primary teachers, we may draw conclusions. Maybe I ordered this map has that kind of stuff in my head. O no, I do not know. Often, when drawing a map, I can not understand the interest that lies beneath. 232: "Places where they meet communists." Have you done a communist or one that does not like the Communists? 253: "Map of My Mother." Where to cut his hair, where she met her husband, where she is buried ... also the homes of their lovers and where he was last seen. A map of love or hate?
Silence.
is seen that many try to say things have never been said. I'm just the translator. The colors, arrows, no more than that, translate what they have in their heads. I have always been easier draw than talk. When you leave here and tell my sister this, what has happened here since I came through that door, I will not say anything. I'll make a map.
Lezcano-A map of what?
Hermida-In this place and we in him. Where and how each has moved. From what you have done and said each one at a time in each place.
on the floor, draw the map.
WHERE do VAS, HUMAN CREATURE KNOW?
The twentieth century died out and ended with the consolidation of democracy in the Western world (for the positive), but also
Humans are so naive or so uncouth, and I so proud in his artificial, he comes to believe sincerely that he alone (The actual individual that is) is in possession of the truth. Hence the eternal belief that it is possible to alter things (people, structures, ideologies, religions) by changing their names. So when Lenin declared that "religion is the opium of the people" did no more than prefigure everything that came after, from Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan ... until Bill Clinton, with whom we enter fully into the information age and virtual communication as quickly and as uninformed as we have seen in the eight years of "reign" of the second Bush, and now continues force with Obama. That is, in many cases, we have replaced religion for computer and Internet God. Are no longer needed, therefore, not coherent sentences, or intelligible messages, or spelling, nor clear and well-chosen words. To not feel alone and self-delusion a purported communication (virtual) only need the noise. Make noise, lots of noise ... but with headphones to avoid disturbing the neighbors, who also was upset with anything else to do.
So many technological advances, not accompanied by parallel psychological maturity, are not only an inevitable distortion of values, but also the destruction of the environment through pollution generally accumulation of toxic and indestructible, the increasing disappearance of natural resources, the death of the known world ... Evil (capitalized), which is afflicting modern man more than he has ever done, lies in the progressive realization of the existence amazing. The names have changed, but attitudes remain. The psyche of man has hardly changed in over twenty centuries and what we call "evolution" is only "progress", and progress technology as well. This puts us at a terrifying truth: we will always be the same "barbarians of the North" for more exterior refinements disguise our barbarity.
Man, that fleeing death and refuses to accept it, because he is so afraid, need to believe in something to not die at all, be it this somewhat Happy life beyond the ideal Acracia or, for that matter. If you can not believe in God, rely on the internet, if you're bored religious rituals, the ritual replaced by the DVD or computer games, if you can not call upon the Saints to solve their problems mount to your car for miles and miles to daze with speed. Or look for a scapegoat on whom to vent their own shortcomings not assumed. Nothing has changed in short: religion (replace this "religion" with the name "modern" is preferred: materialism, competitive struggle, consumption, desire to build things) is still the opium of the people.
is amazing survivability of the species, but surpasses them all in human adaptability. To survive the nausea has to get used the horror, and humans have become adapted so well to the daily horror that can hear or see the worst atrocities without being altered digestion or, much less sleep. Always talking in general terms, this degree of indifference that is suffering from progressive humanity
When the problems of life we \u200b\u200bthrow up when life crisis (economic or personal) looming in the distance with increasing virulence and instead of facing them and her face to face we wanted to find less hazardous substitutes who download our fears and frustrations ..., self-deceiving us and we believe in triumph, while we actually do is sink deeper and deeper into the fallacy and the slag.
Quo vadis homo sapiens?
I am following with attention, expectation and stress the tragedy they are living the 33 miners (and their families) who have been locked in the San José mine in Chile. Perhaps it is the cry of past that now stands in my memory to push words of encouragement and solidarity, as a thread which runs the same language, the same feelings that belong to that lineage that buzzes in the bowels of the earth to find the bread in exchange for the risk of life. Although, now, ours is a memory. And there, in the San José mine, a tragedy bravely fighting against time and the mountain to end the nightmare.
The gods of the depths of the earth earthy always come just one way and another metal that man tore the hell out of their veins. Sometimes with disasters and accidents like this, sometimes with deadly betrayal of the galleries, and always with the various forms of harmful and unhealthy to have the slow pace and revenge metal: silica, salt or white lead.
Worse that is not invisible and improbable revenge of the gods, or symbolic expression, mythological or literary, the worst-as usual-is the very human folly. In my follow-up information, I have come to know the little preventive legislation Chilean mining to improve their working conditions, as if farms continue even guided by the same recklessness that marked the old time copper back centuries.
The bowels of the earth are unpredictable, have sewn the catastrophe to its own nature. And though the man needs his metals and exploiting for millennia, gradually open the hole that swallows the light, undermining its darkness, seek the precious reef, hovered around the sharp edges of the minerals, breathing heat in its depths Vulcan Forge ... no longer inhospitable land where man is always received as a stranger and his tools as an attack. And both are charged with the symptom of the ongoing risk.
operating techniques and safety at work mining advance, precisely, and most are to prevent possible shocks with metals sometimes practice their revenge on the men jumping and biting to undermine their guts. In Chile, the miners to survive each day, continue to risk their lives daily to face the depths with legendary actions, bravery and courage, with the office of the epic, the ability to know the internals of the reefs and the heritage of the legends of their ancestors. This time the killer was before the chance, and fate took pity on those 33 miners, now confined to
writing this article from Linares, in whose memory we are still very visible scars that the mining industry for millennia left a landscape scattered derricks, dumps, landfills and sandstone, have recorded the blood, sweat and complaining that trait subsistence looks at old photographs, now silent witnesses that the rust has closed and the time has worn memories. The Linares do not forget the historical basis of our origins, our past and its tragedies. Maybe, for just that, when disaster strikes such as that these days has been suffering mining in Chile, awakens a spirit of solidarity perhaps latent but certainly never extinguished.
Hopefully as soon as possible put the sun light on the darkness of those faces now locked in the deep rough of a mine; quiet and hugging their families for his heroism to confront this situation. But beyond all this, the feat is living his life daily subsistence, anonymity and a legal limbo that does not diminish as much as possible catastrophes like this. As once happened in Linares and around the preserve mining in the province of Jaén.
Autocrítica
we like it or not, participated in a mixed race, obstacles and background, which, as the rules of our enemies, anything goes. They employ their discretion repression and deceit, violence and misrepresentation. With its political-military organization structured in four complementary fronts perfectly coordinated (legislative, executive, judicial and media), with hundreds of thousands of freed-well paid by the general budget, "with internal and external support of powerful and predatory influential shamans, the huge armed group which has made us face the reality strengthening subvert the established order to perpetuate itself has imposed on us. Two hundred years later, citizens of Bourbon, mired in abject destitution intellectual return to scream, this time silently, the humiliating "Long live the fall!". Have changed their dreams of freedom for security felt by the livestock in the barn (note that established and stable are words sisters).
So those who refuse to graze in the fertile but fenced pasture of political correctness we are more alone than ever, while continuing, as always, ill-assorted among us. We are all friendly little mice who heads the lion king sweeps, effortlessly, with a flick of its tail. We need honesty to self-criticism, intelligence to recognize that there are no absolute truths, generosity in giving up our vanities will to tactically ally, the ability to spread our ideas and cunning to design a realistic action plan, acceptable to our target audience that today we feel as alien. Tried to reestablish the resounding failure and continuous casting distance our revolutionary illusions, fanning, as it should, bright fires overseas, but unable to start their own fireplace.
recognize the failures and is a step forward, but to overcome the glaring fact here is not enough to be right. We have to rectify the undesirable and discuss the time necessary to reach a minimum agreement that allows us to move forward. It is very difficult, I know, but it is also necessary. And very urgent, too.
(*) NB: This article is published under a pseudonym in the digital newspaper inSurGente.org in August 2008. Two years later I feel more alive then, if possible.
THE JEWISH QUESTION
Karl Oskar Kraus Kokoscha 
