uncensored. Number IX. Number 9
UNCENSORED Contents Pope, the mentally retarded and media Literary Criticism and information Towards a new, increasingly hidden fascism. Sex, scandal shocked. The Thyssen and political responsibilities and criminals. All are cowards. Aznar's words. Applause and laughter. Collaboration. Carlos Taibo alarm state. Pope, the mentally retarded and the media.
morons abound, not sick, but those in the society develop various trades, we refer not only to the lumpen proletariat as well used by fascism, but to those who may even have university degrees or be highly sought after character by television to illustrate with their nonsense to themselves addicted to these programs for mentally retarded authentic but den the maximum ratings. When they say their calving, their own babbling phrases or whom many called mindless, do not pay much attention, and certainly not collected as transcendent thoughts. But there are other delays which are played not only his words but summoning politicians, intellectuals, for comment, discuss, as having a value, a universal scope. I speak of a man who has recently written or spoken aloud one of those ewes only silence or neglect immediately deserve being spoken by a moron either. But in this case the opposite happened. Because he is the head supreme, sacred institution that has caused so much damage to mankind since constituted: the Catholic Church. I refer to the Pope of Rome. Journalists, reporters were ready immediately to repeat those crap by all means, and for days and days were discussed in meetings "or published articles about them. Ah, we forgot to say, babbling about the possible use of condoms in some sex. Finally, we think, should consider these drudges of opinion and information that if the Church for centuries only discussed the sex of angels, we were facing a miraculous feat, worthy of discussion as the law of silence is imposed on the institution he leads the army of silent members whose members sometimes lead to violent outbursts against the most defenseless victims or resignation of long life masturbation, exit more pleasant than a continuous and resigned disease-psychic, not physical, which allows them to reach heaven.
Criticism and literary information. El Pais, El Mundo, ABC, Prisa, Mediapro, Vocento, newspapers similar businesses, and radios as the SER or COPE, others say nothing of television, offering the same image: the literature, including advertisements for prostitution, to serve the market, you pay, purchase and corrupts. And they, the poor, the servile, holes, rarely struggling to free communication, text analysis, cleaning of the words and concepts. Something deeper than the view that in times that seem ever more distant issue Octavio Paz: "Our literature lacks critical rigor and our critical imagination." Sometimes both agree on one character, as shown in the paper that he was, as the transition, the scrapping of history, offers a daily occupying many of its pages in a month is capable of jumping from Mexico to Stockholm, by the Canary Islands, then to Frankfurt or China if necessary, reviewing, interviewing, glossing and step leaving behind some new work.
And lying under the shelter of urchins literary or raging cocks who refuse to live in this farce. Oh, God Mercado, guide our word for that your great Prophet, Advertising, fan, and we give honor, money and vanity, say the writers of our day while their editors conjure with its power to the media and is related to !
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Torch starting from its origin karlkrausiano aims to collect testimonies of true creators, it is common words reproduzczamos Juan Goytisolo. also now to the issue at hand, we reproduce some of them we have used another time. He writes: "Knowing is not driving the most profitable times of isolation and marginalization. No court of the Inquisition and state censorship and in times of Franco, but preventive measures, the cordon sanitaire of Marcel Bataillon speaks in his work on Erasmus and the Erasmians act surreptitiously still within the scope of our studies. The result is the stagnation or fossilization of knowledge (...) Those who wisely bent spine, hardly amounts in ranking. (...) The political transition that changed the course of our society has not been accompanied, but in its most superficial aspects and media of cultural transition.
And since I write these words Goytisolo's ills literature worsened. With the infamous and corrupt information and literary criticism from the media exerts on the literature, while ending the existence of the necessary and authentic libraries that made money where the reader could go to request oibras no " Today "only. Supermarkets, bestseller list, characters, and are people that after being cheered on television, radio, printed papers, with their faces and words more or less ritual or foolish, well instructed by their employers, mean that, while piling on windows and space facilities devoted to them, the bookstores do not have much space for other silenced by the media, even to return unopened packages of small and medium publishers, not to grant more than fifteen days of its existence to the books escaped the fire and found a gap on their shelves. But those who run the editorial and business departments of the Ministry of Culture is limited to talk of titles edited billings billion euros, sales figures, etc.
No, we do not live in the times Walter Benjamin wrote the following about literary criticism: "A critic is a strategist delivered to the literary struggle. Books and whores have their respective types of men that lives in them and exploit them. In the case of books is critical. " No, now the question is different, simpler: the literary critic and reporter are not free, but if you believe them: they are mere employees who control the publicity of what author imposes comprehensive reporting, preparing to sell first works to qaue critic bless the product later. Newspapers, radios, televisions, does not obey obsecenos owners?. What it matter that among them fight and struggle to achieve greater height in influence and power if in the end, the only moral and ethical know and laying guide is imposed by the accumulation of bank notes?. And of those reporting, exercising the so-called literary criticism, is better to forget: they are restricted to obey those who drive the market of corruption.
The Thyssen and political responsibilities and criminals.
terror and crime as well, when try them, dependent on economic and political power than judges. This can uplift and give top honors and lead to prison and the gallows. For decades under the Franco regime, filed in different parts of Spain was the paradigmatic case of Zahara de los Atunes summer where not only the entertainment, as they say, but people like Mayor Oreja-Nazis known terrorists. But the Nazis were not reviled few names, a handful of military fascist illiterate and without scruples to become genocidal. They were puffed to power, strongly supported by politicians, intellectuals, bankers, clergymen. Sometimes has been quoted bankers and industrialists. As Thyssen, whose Baron finished settling in Spain. The Nazis, in addition to burning flesh make half of Europe, depleted important works of art and to develop great operas and concerts, as men of letters are not their cause had won, hopefully, into exile. Baron Thyssen and his second, I think, women, English no more relevance than its possible physical charms, were hailed by our Democrats, they agreed to cancel the English historical memory but franchises granted to those guilty of other forgotten memories. Power, culture, crime and terrorism, round beds are best in so-called democracies. And I do not like visiting the museum in Madrid whose name brings to my sensitivity is not the pictures located on their rooms, but my imagination which delights in the memory qaue many years ago I took a walk through the fields of Auschwitz and Birkenau or recall the books while I spoke of the carnage of World War II bucolic scenes depicted in castles and palaces where they met with the cults of Hitler's industrial and German aristocrats. Let them or their heirs who now alternate with our rulers and political memory.
Aznar's words. Aznar is not guilty of the words he utters. Aznar has been right in what he says. Yesterday was the support for those who ordered the massacres in Iraq. Today is calling for more money and power to the banks, big industry, so that an end to the so-called welfare state: more hours, fewer holidays, containment of wages, fewer resources for health, education, culture, to lengthen the working-age pensions is lower that the law of the whip is imposed on companies that ... Still giving lectures (?). His braying hold the office of words and so we have to pay large financial amounts. I want to return to absolute power, but some outdated forms of "democracy, which abhors although it fills the mouth talking about it, delay their plans. No. Aznar is not guilty. We are statesmen from around the world, will entertain Universities, Nobel prizes are our friends and allies. Guilty? Do not pick his words every time, remember, he does not bray, they learned to speak, even in English-all media? No one has suggested that they might fall into the void, which is the utter silence. And no one remembers that we could save a brilliant literary title with slight tweaks allow us to write: spit on your words.
Towards a new, less and less hidden fascism. Capitalism and the struggle for market dominance always ends in wars, local or global, and often in the advent of fascist political regimes. Today we find ourselves once again in another cycle of such criminals, terrorists consequences for the people. Their greed will stop at nothing. And left-wing parties serve the usual language, not the reality of the concept-fall into the error to open the door. That was during the twentieth century. This appears to be in this century, of which only ten years have passed, four fewer than in the great slaughter of the twentieth century. Slowly but inexorably, fascism is going to storm installing or placing power across Europe, from Sweden to Russia, from Italy to Spain. And before that terrible, devastating scene, there are few who have not only the ability but the courage and intelligence to report. Crimped prefer Byzantine issues and contentions to maintain or achieve small plots of power, entrenched in bureaucratic positions and deceive the people, increasingly alienated, fast thinking and freedom, which is carried away by the work of undermining the media the service of banks, multinational oligarchs, whitewashed churches and parties that their origins and fascist ideologies but increasingly less need to hide them. If the Government is drawn into this catastrophe, the socialist government is because it ignores ethics and morality, preferring political suicide before denounce those in Spain and Europe will lead to political and economic slavery as well managed by the United States Government. Unions and political organizations are not only well tolerated but subsidized by their officials by the fascists and drag us to the storm that will eventually sweep them also when dealing with the power and you are free from their masks, although Armani dress or fill the mouth with the word democracy are but heirs of Franco, Hitler, Mussolini of yesteryear. Those seem to archaeological remains, but they test new forms of exploitation, control freedom and increasing economic exploitation: they are the Aznar, Cospedal, Aguirre, Sarkozy, Merkel, Berlusconi, including those that are here the nationalists, the Laporta or More.
Should not fight, socialists, communists, trade unionists, people without party or organization against fascism as absolute evil, fight new night of Walpurgis before laying the carpet on which drag their desire for absolute power? Tension the rope to the limit and economic desperation will also hit them but because rebels lose their privileges. Of course, the Prisa, Commissions, UGT, and socialist parliamentarians will izquierdaunidos persists and even constitute an excuse for imposing neo-fascism the new order with little opposition, if some rebels dare to oppose them and to act without, as they like to say, I shake the pulse to impose absolute rule of law. Finally is the law. De neoliberal neo-fascists. And some intellectuals talking about the evil of Bolivia.
Sex, scandal and outraged Ones are provocative, the other meapilas or Pharisees. The problem is not what they write or speak Sanchez Drago, a certain Sostres, someone who is a doctor and worked as mayor of the city of Redondo Onesimus. Words at the bottom of the National-inherited, force in the intimacy of a sexist society that lives in jokes and scatology well fed by the most watched television programs, a company that knows more and less what they think and like to wallow in the mire of corrupt moral inhibitions and blessed by the lords of the miter and crosier. The problem is come from, what they represent, who feed them, named and given positions in public or private means. For those who stand against such expressions are disguised as Puritans and their morale is just as reactionary. Not the sexual pleasure that corrupts, but the ones and others who rot or reality and beauty of sex. Rapists, Cilician lovers, people who agree to live, or profiting from prostitution, here or there where they will look, in more or less, that's the wildlife that now welcomes them, now they are condemned. Inquisition, repression, self-righteousness, the pendulum at the varying opinions and actions. A bleak picture in which church, judiciary, education, cultural institutions, moral, political, honk in unison and the people sheltering in the media ignore and not to be going blind and brutish but their lack of freedom in their society as democratic.
Applause and laughter.
Al, as always, great article Rafael Sanchez on Ferlosio theme of applause, we could add a few words that would apply to politicians, journalists, writers, people who at wakes or funerals are interviewed about their relatives or friends killed, another opportunity to suffer such abominable constantly repeated phrase "loved ones" -, athletes, patients, people who appear in any media in photos or interviews, victims or survivors of any catastrophe, all but clown: always smile at the camera. Applause, laughter. The virtual world is a farce and they have to appear as their authentic representatives.
We are all cowards.
boundaries To what we fear conditioning?. In 1954 Herbert Marcuse -fashion has passed, the market selects and propagates oblivion "wrote:" Civilization is inclined toward self-destruction. " And revolution and repression "Since the rebellion of slaves in the ancient world to the socialist revolution, the struggle of the oppressed has always ended with the establishment of a new and" better "naming system, progress has taken place through a chain of increasingly effective control. Every revolution is a revolution betrayed "
USSR. China. Western Europe. Africa. Iran. The fear of the Left. The outage of critical consciousness. The weakness of being rational. Around the clearing in technicolor and bodies, which are displayed by advertising in particular, developed and embellished. There is only the television market. And the silence and fear to fight against its power. Naedie want to blurt this road to destruction, to the last days of humanity . We live in times of fear, not speed. To accommodate the mirror of the welfare state. That is not trying to rebel fall into the morass in which so many choke. Starvation or repression. What women have achieved and what their struggles were looking for? At least it was the object of desire and not stoned. What about stoning? There is desirable, although his company has no more developed than the feudal face who then face the United States. And the U.S.? Who does not envy their success in sports, scientific, economic welfare, including, but not confess, imperial expansion? And besides, what good is the protest? Curémonos health: nothing can be done, and the use of impotence prevents speak of our own cowardice
Collaborations
Carlos Taibo
Alarm State
The strike air traffic controllers have been developed 4 and 5 of this month has several different dimensions. The first arises from the condition, singular, the professional group concerned. His high wages to a speedy trial predispose disqualifying overlooking - it seems - interesting circumstances. Not only that facilitates the settlement of a very widespread, almost universal in our means of communication. If you tend to sympathize spontaneously with a striking worker, our media - no need to draw what interests meet - literally take the opposite approach. Perhaps it only agrees to collect opinions from citizens outraged that exclude any consideration of the reasons which have led to workers - no matter who they are - to assume a sensitive measure.
I have recorded on the hard retina statement, before the television screens, by a woman angry: If anyone missed work - he says - should be brought to an clear out the street. The lady in question is not part of, certainly, a group parafascism. Surely this is, rather, a modest and ideology-janitor or a cashier at a mall. Although one can understand his momentary anger, one must ask how that person would react if he suddenly announced that his working day has been a significant increase while their pay has been reduced. Do not estimate how seriously the possibility of assuming then, in response, a strike 'wild ' ? Well that's what apparently happened on Friday 4 with air traffic controllers.
Mayor relief has, however, another dimension, we forced to question the substantive meaning of a system that allows political leaders, using - no one doubts, and this alone is bad enough - their prerogatives, to unilaterally cancel the previously agreed upon labor standards. In any case the drivers are very sensitive - and serves to Joseph White make easier use of social demagogy, autoconvirtiéndose, gosh, the defender of the underdog on the same day that the English Government withdrew aid to basic unemployed - the better to remember what happened in the subway Madrid last summer. Here again the authorities - in this case those of the Community Madrid - unilaterally decided to jettison the provisions of a collective agreement. Is it reasonable to describe as the strike went wild and not dip into the same adjective to account for the behavior of those with the mark of their democratic titles, choose to ride roughshod, of interest, the rules previously agreed?
There are, of course, another dimension, very delicate, as happened the past few days. The militarization of a service, the declaration of a state of alarm and the real possibility of applying draconian military workers may well set an appropriate bank evidence for what lies ahead. And take note that I am thinking now of the drivers, where they meet - that's right - very particular circumstances. I speak of ordinary workers, victims of aggression without affecting story, and, to their social rights and basic labor. The message could not be clearer: If you accept, without blinking, the capital standards that our government dictates and dutifully take care to apply, if you know what they are exposed. I am afraid, in other words, what happened these days you can come back, blessed by the applause from a stunned citizenry increasingly in diverse economic sectors. And this really refers to a situation alarming hand a sort of permanent state of exception, with the ministries of Interior and Defense allegedly fighting for the rights of the powerless. .
Since there is an ill wind that blows no good, his stuff is to remember, finally, that no planes weekend
- and without pollution and the consequent waste of resources - we have left behind may well be a foretaste of what is, things as they are, and inexcusable environmental reasons, we will be forced to make in the coming years. Although it was not that, of course, the intention drivers.
