Friday, December 29, 2006

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originality.

"I raise my cop to
for the day that never comes
but that is all
it really have"
Parra Nicanor


To resume my thoughts via a blog I've decided to do this through a brief personal reflection on what we tried to Originality qualifier. As you said Carla Cordua currently the endless innovation, the demand for competitiveness, the desire for personal gain have been given a social phenomenon that has as a symptom of the relentless search for quality. From this perspective there is a heightened motivation to find things that break the existing canon, it seeks with fury and more grief than pleasure, enjoyment of an artifact - whether artistic or other media attention, which is unusual. So we were able to witness achievements meaningless, which fall into the vulgar and tacky. Frenzies that has not incorporate substantial material and perfected new issues worthy of being flattered, but has been repeated again and again in vain structuring powerful dose of discontent.

originality as such should perceive a dichotomy between the forces of the past and the boldness of the new times. For the same reason I remember a few words of the folklorist Margot Loyola face the question of Warnken. "A new Chilean tunes they need to learn from his past, and just understand how to work on new projects." The script singular, that author's masterful, whether in prose or verse, in oil or watercolor or tune orchestra, should require a thorough assessment of its past, to be built fiber him, each essence should be a tiny all past that to be combined with other parties provide the final piece to innovation and glare.

Parra was the occasion of that, his poetry rather than irreverent side Casanueva, Prado, de Castro, D'Halmar exhibited substantially the same only in new structures. The assessment was the same theme by focusing on the man and his environment as a primary source of inspiration, but the accolades are having recourse to new resources to other perspectives. So revamped the layout of the form and everyday language, but without losing the solemnity of the discourse of the first phase of the twentieth century.

For those looking to reinterpretation the fee as yet nonexistent, scathing criticism of the unquestionable, the redistribution of the parameters must be clear, in my humble opinion, the words of one of the fathers of modern chemistry: "In the universe nothing is created or destroyed as only transformed. "

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

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The Idol and Democracy

"Evil is so bad that with him, good looks
an accident
good is so good that, with him, to bad it
explicable."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Modern Idol

Since time immemorial history Humanity has been proposed as a form of idolatry search to the essentials of life. The idol is defined as the "figure of a deity to worship given" [1] . This line of social behavior has spread to different cultures, even suggesting it is more successful as a foundation prevailing at the origin of the earliest civilizations. Has been the search engine of the first innovations, consolidated the estate in mutual coexistence of men and women busily coordinated every aspect of life and knew how to devise the most stringent punishment for those who disapprove.
The idol is and is presented as a being made, that abstract idea or material that was able to go around in the way of solving the mystery. One mystery that I speak do not in any theological something obviously had a beginning idolatry animist then turned to the supernatural - early Hellenistic metaphysics as an example - but in this case idolatry is a much more extensive and time much more specific: I will consider it a concept that develops and changes over time. Returning, the idol has a physical situation for the common extravagant, that makes it attractive and gives a facility to position. The "idolatraje" has this potential that makes it slippery and contagious, as it presents with patience and never referred to its own root, but sneaks into social issues and displayed as the only possible solution. It is important to understand that his character will not be in any case a "causal", the idol is the result of a frantic search. Religions have defined it as pagan, politics and literature as a leader has expressed it as a recurring antagonist.
In any case, the idol is never the man. This is lower than any show of power to such an extent. May be masked in a man, and what you see in the figure of Hitler and Stalin. Is as much human, but is immeasurably wider in rhetoric and in form.
Another essential is to understand its dynamics. In English there is the word "scapegoat", translated into English is seen as a scapegoat. The mechanism of spread of social search for the balance idol, through to the marrow of a group of people disappointed, since there tries to stand against the stripped portion socially speaking, not always supposed to be the minority, as you might think about Tocqueville [2] -. From this we can exemplify the Jewish people - "The Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare, and today is autoalude as such a vast sector of the Islamic world. Consequently it is handled with the social gaps and reconciled when a structure suggestive for other attacks the cracks left by the current system.
The modern hero has a great ability to permeate the sector, took masks and blends with the existing liberal. Some psychology offers us idolatry as part of the human frame - Freud says ".... They are the same as the gods, creations of the psychic powers of man ..." - and largely consider these claims valid if one takes into account historical experience.
We return to the same, the idol is born of the social imperative of a solution to the situation. Should not be seen who falls into mud as innocent, as though this is so subliminal and groundwater entering this without the possibility of perceiving it and only be able to quantify and qualify its effects in the distant future (as long as they do a retrospective social historical level), amnesty is not part of the healing process post-idol. The only moral form of sanitation for potential victims is the trial as set. Otherwise, it will open a new crack for a new idol. History




To get a better differentiation of modern idol believe this hypothesis to be proposed separation according to the form.
From antiquity to the nineteenth century we can speak of a type of idol. It is defined by its religious character, is far more conservative. In this way aims to maintain in perpetuity as the dominant form. Does not possess the dynamism of the times, but a more prolonged times: let cultural heirs and is strongly punishment for those who violate. By its nature grows very few dissenters.
After the nineteenth century - the beginning of the Social Sciences, the idol will take new features. Will become more rational, less responsive to seek unearthly. Ally considered peak and finally his greatest aspiration political power. Developments have focused on the present and therefore far less durable. Not be expressed with eternity, but allude to the changes and new charges will not seek social model, rather, will focus on governing these from their own ideology.
The first reference we have dating back to 3000 BC and comes from Middle Eastern cultures - now Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Israel, etc. -. The Bible from the Old Testament idea idol cast in the world: the Brazen Serpent, is awarded to the seventh century BC in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. To this day continues to worship, and we have examples such as natural religion and Christians hold the representations of magic objects as icons and relics.
But the idol is not merely the object, the hero is framed more in an ideological, therefore the object has an application that aims to bring the enormity of its scope.
The Christian religion in the same light had an incentive momentous in the history of mankind. In a political environment and severely punishing those who were opposed, Christians were able to grow massively and dissent that finally caused them to be accepted and integrated into the corresponding prevailing (but not Jews). Later on, on this same doctrine of the Roman Empire collapsed and fronteras se vieron sobrepasadas. Con esto, el cristianismo ortodoxo supo figurar como la piedra angular para la nueva sociedad. Allí se indujo a las personas al ídolo cristiano, es decir, a Dios. Duró por varios siglos y no es casual que en dicha época el rey haya sido un ornamento, habiendo dejado su poder en los señoríos. Se explica en la evolución del idolatrismo: dioses, dios, monarca, sistema.
De la misma forma para los siglos XIV y XV se afirmarán las monarquías absolutas, será el período de transición entre el ídolo teológico y el humanista. El rey encarna la divinidad por un lado -“Rey Sol”-, pero por el otro la continuidad del Antiguo Régimen.
Then occurs what may be called the milestone between the two forms of idolatry: the Revolution in France. The last vestige of the transition will be Robespierre - "Reign of Terror" -. After this will come to this nation a symbolic figure in the establishment of a new system. Napoleon Bonaparte idol represent the first fully human and rational (Jesus Christ possessed religious inspiration and the Roman emperors were determined largely by the designs of the gods).
will commence and the new regime idolatrous, based heavily on the system and the political vicissitudes. Could deepen the evolution of this new way, but save this for later when you have to explain his relationship with democracy.


Religious Idol

The religions have been proposed as a form of idolatry and pagan worship reprehensible, even during periods of history the churches attacked and punished all these forms of prayer because they are considered degenerates their faith.
But what is Judaism, Christianity and Islam? Are more elaborate forms of idolatry and only that. I do not want me to go through an atheist - although having nothing against that - in fact I consider myself a Christian, but in no case could share forms Vintage Christianity. Along these lines left open to be idolatrous judge me.
to the Catholic religion there are two idols (though not called by that name): The Satan, idol of evil, and God, the idol of the property. One proposes that the life man to resort to evil to achieve his own happiness and the other suggests a man who seeks entry to paradise through their acts of kindness. This shakes the life demanding the best possible behavior and that the Father has sent his Son, who has come to the idol of evil vile. But Satan is always lurking in the form of temptation, lurking in the same way he did with Eve and Adam.
Islam has long tones similar to Christianity. Appears to us one God, Mohammed, our own liberation through only succeed with the loyal fulfillment of certain terms (alms, pilgrimage to Mecca, the Jihad, prayer, etc..). Do not argue that more radical in its position, because although this depends so heavily on its past: the fact of having developed a revival that opened to new perspectives [3] .







nineteenth century previously explained religious behavior had on the idol, but now enter fully into what we regard for us this case.
The idea of \u200b\u200btruth comes extensively in the past and its definition has been greatly stimulating the flowering of the infinite existing idols. In most cases distinguish between good and evil are clearly possible, but there are times when deciding whether an action has one or the other is a huge task. Each society is faced with these dilemmas and thus, forms the great breeding ground for new idols. Anthropocentric
The new civilization that would launch the events for the late eighteenth century had to legarnos a wide task: to confront these dilemmas more often than perhaps, a company may request.
At one point the nineteenth century, in the West a new way of thinking, which displaced the old theological conception of right and wrong, moreover, came to accept the absence of this duality. The name of this particular name that would revolutionize the perception of the idol would be the Social Sciences. This view would divert the man's explanation and give new conventions supranatura both more rational and scientific. And good or bad they were not topics for discussion and less trying to explain. This new discipline
suggested that human impulses and all actions he performs are outside the individual's personal control. Es decir, cada persona está condicionada por el medio en el cual está sumergida, pasa a ser un simple peón en un tablero de ajedrez. Somos simples productos de nuestra cultura; como lo dice Amos Oz, marionetas de nuestro subconsciente.
Frente a esta explicación, la pregunta que me hago es ¿y quién salva a la democracia, garantía de todas las libertades individuales, de los ídolos culturales que nos socavan y nos imbuyen estímulos que más tarde serán nuestra condena? Porque el hombre puede condenarse por seguir al ídolo, pero si la democracia flaquea en esta embestida nada reparará lo que haga la sociedad en dicho quiebre.


Cuando el Ídolo Vence

Social Sciences endeavored to explain this new dimension of good and evil, with sincere momentum that past atrocities will never return to regenerate. In other words, that the idol could be understood and therefore destroyed.
It was happening to some extent, the responsibility to society. They wanted to explain that the man was subject to the circumstances and therefore they are responsible for their actions and decisions. In the end, had to watch the idol. The way it was explained, Satan and God were outside the new boundaries, religion stopped at the line of scientific rationalism. There was no more work of salvation or conformity of a bygone destination.
But in the end, the Social Sciences also failed. The twentieth century gave rise to the most bloody and cruel scenes of history. The ruthless evil took over the nations. The idol broke into the depths of the systems, whole societies duped and became so strong that it emerged as an invincible superpower. Sciences were unable to stop this machine of hatred and democracy was the great victim - sequence: crisis of 29 'and rapid recovery of totalitarian states.
managed to penetrate this new idol disguised as a universal revolution, or idealism, as mass education, which will "open his eyes." Totalitarianism became the secular redemption for some, the price of millions of human lives [4] .


The Idol and Democracy

for our times evil is in the form of a partnership, largely on the political ideology are inefficient governments, systems operators, faceless figures (companies, institutions and corporations ) is the world serve their own benefit.
In this I stop, notice the turn presents the twentieth century is no longer valid fight the Devil and the omnipresent God, nor suggest the absence of a good or a bad rationalist mode illustrated. Within this scenario the good and evil take on new forms, much less noticeable than before. Enter then, the principles of ethics and morality play in the field of human action with renewed force (actually supported by the growing number of books on this subject currently sold.) The man is much more attentive to the prevailing idol and tries to cope with the new, the accepts in a subdued manner, but fears the arrival of a new kind of hero similar to the early years of the century.
is here in front of the great fear, where democracy should be careful. I do not propose ways to carry out this process, this corresponds to a much more subjective and finish. I will just argue about what makes it so necessary to protect this system, which has its Achilles heel right in the defense against idol.
What was the Weimar Republic? It lived during the interwar period in Germany. It had a constitution, seen by many as the most perfect constitution of modern times, with the advent of Hitler to power was shattered. This is a clear example of the susceptibility of the democratic regime, at a time encrudecido by the opinion of the Treaty of Versailles and even more, with a savage economic crisis which could not carried out the actual realization of that letter, the extension of this system became untenable. The idol found in this situation was Nazism, incarnated in the figure of the Fuhrer, who won the nation invading Germanic and occupied as a scapegoat the Jewish people. In this example we consider that the Nazis came to power through democracy itself, through its freedoms [5] .
Another modern example is the idol of communism, this was a way he knew to align with the highest moral principles of mankind. Appealed greatly to tolerance, equality and mutual respect for the work. At the time of execution said to decimate any form of private property, collapsed this principle and was severely punished those who made use of it (sometimes not even the big landowners). The idol of communism was vastly more appealing to the masses, but also very severe govern them. Drowned any form of freedom and revived the dictator.
The questioning of those two experiences forced around today is vital. It depends on finding new mechanisms of defense of democracy, its rear is crucial to realize when a contingency plan against false idols. She can not grow or hold its own destruction. But on the other side must ensure that all freedoms are fully implemented and that each position on the power she has given within the limits of a place that facilitates their own fulfillment.
The development of means of protection of democracy should be done by strengthening its internal structure and by emphasizing that one has of it. Note that the democratic system has been the most contested in the history of humanity, even more than the monarchies and totalitarianism. This also causes a general dissatisfaction in society that serves as an agitator for the appearance of the idol. It is precisely why we need to grow their tradition and must, even with a strong opposition ensure their existence and strengthening. For the new times ahead, there are idols much more attractive than previous decades, have in large scale cluster structure. For its extensive penetration against a leader has not strengthened. Some might call it the Axis of Evil, for other rounds in the figure of the American capitalist empire. But we must not only limited to them, are very noticeable and remember that the idols do not show easily. It is most likely to emerge as a response to prevailing social conception. Democracy
currently has major cracks is challenging to overcome. The Secretary General of the OAS and put it once the integration, growth, governance, corruption and drug trafficking are gaps that must necessarily be the top priorities for government projects in each country. For there should be injected new doses of idolatry. Chavez said when he took over as president of Venezuela - "... I'm not cause I'm the result ...."
Another facet that later give way to the emergence of a new idol if we do not take action on the matter, will be the environmental issue. It is a reality that currently exist ECOFAC groups that have been derived from the very poor environmental policies of governments prevailing. The waste of irreplaceable natural resources requires new challenges to our moral prudence, first by the injustice of most developed countries spend hundreds of times and pollute more than all the others and the acute problems that condition to future generations [6] . This problem may arise later in new forms of political breakdown in decentralized man's welfare objective. In a nutshell
Democracy Needs Tougher spine, the excessive freedom conditions in any case no protection factor state and nation. Education in this sense is vital, new generations should be soaked in respect to the value of the nation and the rule of law. It does not mean stop being critical of the system, but be disciplined in relation to the media that it provides to be reformed. Idolatry is the greatest evil in history and now more than ever, as in most countries have established democratic regimes where the autonomy of the person is a great value. It must safeguard the continuity of this principle and not allow complete freedom mismanaged wrecking attempts to achieve a more orderly and participative.
[1] Larousse Encyclopedic Dictionary, 5 th edition, 1994; Mexico.
[2] De la démocratie en Amérique.
[3] Mahader Bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1981-2003), El Mercurio, body E, page 24, Sunday 20 November 2005, Santiago, Chile.
[4] Amos Oz speech on receiving the 2006 Goethe Prize in Frankfurt.
[5] Germany from 1918 to 1939: The Weimar Republic and Hitler, N. Lowe.
[6] Ethics for Amador, Fernando Savater, 2004, Argentina.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

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Wheel of Revolution Subjected

"All history is nothing but an infinite
catastrophe which we try out best" Italo

Calvin


American History is the story of one who submits. Or rather, who is forced to surrender. And although the literature is never the primary source for historical knowledge, it is a reference illuminant itself as an expression of cultures for what they are and what they do. From this perspective, Alejo Carpentier's novel "The Kingdom of This World" illustrates a particularly good view on how that constitutes the history of our continent. Therefore, through the novel, give our particular view about the nature of history (American and universal) and the revolution as a historical process, cyclical and 'continuous'.

Before proceeding with any analysis on the book, it is imperative to become familiar with the landmarks associated with it: what time are given the facts and what is written. At first, the novel takes us to Haiti in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, full time American independence Revolutions and processes. United States, France, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are all countries facing political turmoil times (more or less as applicable), which lead ultimately to changes ranging from radical emancipation or deposition of rulers warmer reforms and signs Shy independence.

Moreover, the context in which Carpentier writes "The Kingdom of This World" is that of decolonization after World War II. The countries of Asia and Africa (and to a lesser extent America) were going through hard struggles aimed at ending the dominance of European powers in the area. Cases such as India, Congo, Egypt, Algeria, Vietnam and Cambodia are a clear demonstration of the ways in which they addressed the 'second liberation' worldwide (ranging from non-violence to the establishment of one-party state socialism) .

Both cases show signs of failure that is, after all, the revolutionary process. On the one hand, the nineteenth century was a century that increasingly favored the aristocracy and oligarchy, with no real benefit to the mass to be recruited and participated in the Independence. The ideals of freedom and democracy came at a reduced level for the ruling class and not for the people, as it was assumed that should have been. Turning to the twentieth century, all new national dissociate themselves from the colonial powers are involved in the disruption after the emancipation also forced (more or less explicitly) to choose one of two opposing blocs during the Cold War. Despite having formed in the Non-Aligned Movement, each country adopted positions that favored the U.S. or the USSR.

Thus we return to one of our main ideas: revolution is a process that is unable to achieve in reality the purposes set out by ideologues. Your application becomes, eventually, in a different kind of status quo of everyday life is not largely altered. This has to do with condition fallible and corruptible human beings. In parallel, we find that (particularly in America) we are relegated to a domain accept 'foreign', a force that does inevitably affect our daily work and how our historical development.

already clear that we can make an application of these ideas to the facts presented in the novel, distinguishing first the process that it happens and then we can gather ideas from what happens in the book.

us consider from two perspectives: that of Ti Noel, his protagonist, and this double revolution of the people of Haiti. Carpentier

shows a character faced calls from his time. Moves, swings, through the events of your community more as a viewer (such as the author in the process of writing the novel, as we readers) of the story, starring the same determinant. If we imaginásemos history as a train, he is as expendable as one of the thousands of pieces of coal that move this great engine. So who is ultimately the boiler on this machine? In the first instance we can mention Mackandal, Mande has been able to develop the ability to transform into different beasts to weasel out of his pursuers.

But think from another point of view; Mackandal is just the shaker movement irrevocably involved and requires the collective and the conjugation of wills to an end (the common good, happiness, revolution, democracy, Communism, salvation, etc.). It follows that although Ti Noel is not a crucial element in the events of history, Mackandal or not it is, their efforts as members of a whole (community of slaves) is not so vital for success, but for the very existence of the revolution.

Despite the obvious that we can prove the association of one of our proposals - the idea of \u200b\u200bAmerican history is the history of the subject - and the status of Ti Noel slave, it seems necessary to deepen about this fact .

Making a brief tour by the events of the novel we find the following points: Firstly
reflected through the Mezy Lenormand figure (the owner), who in the sample more typical and less attractive, it begins to enter the existing long way foreign domination. Translating this to a post in the story we see again the subjugation of Ti Noel, and not a different race but one of their own community, Henri Christophe. Finally, after thinking that the star had reached the ultimate liberation, must fall to the original and most basic form of subjugation, this time there are human actions that influence the Ti Noel, ends after the above-dominated infinitely greater weight of the history of the geese.


Then the thesis is right, man must bear the weight of power and therefore the weight of tradition. In this way everything will end in submission, as if our gender centuries of evolution could not cope or the oath of freedom of a goose, it is clear that we have achieved little or nothing in this 'breakthrough'.


Now for the second point to be discussed: the dual Haitian revolution. First, the slave against the white man, and second, the black man against his own race.

We can say that the triggering event of this huge uproar was the very ideological revolution in France and the arrival there of the news imbued with the ideals of Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité . This aroused the slaves with more enthusiasm than knowledge, the need of the uprising against years of submission.

And so begins this coming and going of situations by the savagery of an oppressed race and the ignorance of that undeniably becomes an event of unprecedented violence and bloodshed generous. So the question is how this will be the true manifestation of the free man? Submission Is the only way to counter the turmoil of this aggression? Do you reach in a distant time the actual implementation of a socially bearable freedom?

fact that after the first revolution we have a pretty happy bitterness of what might happen later. Then after a pause in Cuba find the arrival of the second form of submission, confirming once again what I have postulated about this: neither the man nor the people can escape from the subordination of others. As we said, it comes from their own race and not different from the previous lot. Is it because the rule is not about stocks, rather the fact of being human. The nature of the human body contains, like it or not, a thirst for power in nature, if it is possible the question of whether drinking or not, could be reduced to virtually nothing, independent of any existing principle or loyalty.

fighting is restarted. Now it's the same blood that runs on both sides. But it is predictable what will happen: nothing new, will history repeat itself over and over again.

This is eventually shown to be cyclical and continuous revolution. This revolution is merely pursuing a dream as old as civilization itself and has been and will always relegated to a group of people from the complacency of a human or abstract entity more powerful than our will. So we continue to face our illusions of perpetual freedom, making creating utopias, political and economic systems, with their attendant revolutions to get started and be paradójicamente esclavizados por ellos mismos. En conclusión, querámoslo o no, nos enfrascaremos en las mismas añoranzas y realizaremos los mismos alzamientos que nuestros antepasados, pero todo será parte del giro constante de la misma rueda: la Historia.

Es necesario clarificar que diferimos totalmente con aquella visión hegeliana de la historia encaminada inevitablemente hacia el Progreso, hacia la Síntesis del Espíritu. De qué síntesis se les puede hablar a los esclavos haitianos si continúan siendo esclavizados por la gente de su propio pueblo. En el perpetuo embaucamiento es que vive el ser americano. En definitiva, y como lo planteó Octavio Paz, somos ‘hijos de la chingada’. Y therefore, here in America, whatever we do is fuck. Fuck the Colony, screwed screwed Independence and the Revolution.

Friday, August 4, 2006

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Peter Pan

Dare we travel with our innocence in this wonderful "Neverland"?
Peter Pan Peter Pan

saw many years ago, I was very moved by the film utopian approach escaping from what is commonly accustomed to digest with that term. The chimera expressed appealed to the childishness of each and the early years when life presents us as simple as the word joy. For those years we should not ask how and when we would realize in our lives the way of happiness, just live it and not find excuses for her, because happiness is - as Borges says - the only thing that justifies itself.
In Peter Pan the idea of \u200b\u200beternal childhood seeps into every character who travels to Neverland. That world may or may not exist, in some distant star or certainly in the infinite imagination of a child who moves us by its magic and fantasy. The coexistence of evil pirates led by Captain Hook makes a game as balanced with the magic of the other co-inhabitants of the land that is structured contrast to the turbulent winds of our days. That statement indicates subjectively that a child knows the clear distinction of good and evil. This world so great diversity, is the pervasive assumption child, able to gauge filled rhetoric illusory worlds and solemnity, but both are left to mix the simple elements of nature, literature, history and mythology.
The child then becomes an operator more. It also breaks like a fascinated spectator, but critical. If you do not like what you see will not prevent its rejection and hide in the same way that we built a world without grace or charisma, tend to disappear depleting their own resources.
childish creative capacity not manifest fully in the realization of their artistic expression. But in the composition of secret worlds, full of the magic of our own childhood.
That's where Peter Pan would establish itself as a didactic work and dialogue. Interpreted without exaggeration and rescuing the simplicity of childhood philosophy their own worlds. At the same time be an incentive to comply with new apparel for adults, to show the wealth of new and magical sweet land of our early years.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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Dalai Lama in Chile

"An den Lan Bin, make ten and ten Den Lan Bin Bin La den make a hundred more" Dalai Lama
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On May 6 I had a famous encounter with one of the most influential spiritual leaders of the world, I mean nothing less than the Dalai Lama. The meeting took place at the newly opened Arena Santiago, where we found dating about five thousand people, of which a large portion were young. Take notes of every significant sentence uttered during the speech "The Power of Compassion", here I leave you with the most important of this interesting experience.


To better illustrate how the dimensions of our minds the field compared with Golf. This is because man must, as in sports, blow by blow go looking for the unearthing of its mystery, for therein rests largely personal fulfillment of each. The Dalai Lama
we proposed that one of the happiest moments of our lives is that we spent with our mothers, by one simple fact that they were the first before you give us any love. For the same reason if we face a glass of milk, exemplifies - and a glass of blood, we would be more akin to the first. The explanation is simple, our unconscious draws a connection to the milk with the mother figure.
To refer to the family placed in the central nucleus development of a person, especially a child. Hence acquire peace and love, cursing the indifference and violence. Therefore, it is the lack of human affection to the cause the problem that triggers many of the ills of our society such as crime and drug addiction.
An example he gives is from his own experience. Once the patient was between doctors and nurses who treated him with a noticeable lack of affection and attention, which made him feel like a mere experiment. But instead, his peers were strengthened study and were accompanied to provide material support to overcome. He points out that these situations probably more than any experienced by us accompany you to our old age, where as a baby needs care and affection of others. In conclusion, throughout our lives will require the continued support of love and affection to survive.
A conflict - suggests, must face not to mention the features that distinguish us as human being, because this will result in progress towards the best solution. Otherwise if we forget our essential features of the conflict will turn violent and we drove over the possible solution. Thus the major human religions speak of compassion, a condition that allows us to face life all falling between the diversity we represent. There is a problem with some people who think the qualities of love, forgiveness, compassion, etc. clearly relating them to religion, being forgotten by those individuals. But - as I said we love binds to the human being from birth to death. And so there are people who without being believers are valuable for their actions and values.
Thus the Nobel Peace makes us think about the suffering that we see it as overwhelming and we feel lost. It tells us how important compassion is reflected in the time we see another suffer, because there is growing in us an inner strength of courage and care which makes even without knowing how much we provide, help. In this way we will have the satisfaction of having practiced compassion for another.
Clearly referring to the self-centeredness as something unrealistic. The focus on self causes a problem to occur, not to be broader our vision can not see beyond, see magnified the size of that rock. Unlike when you are less self-centered, for the same extent as developed by our openness and leave his own "I" will not affect us much.
explains that when we have less fear, our mind is handled with calm and tranquility, growing healthy. But if our mind is involved in states of shock or disgust be taken negative decisions. Compassion in this way will give us peace and serenity of mind, which will affect better decisions and also to an improvement in physical ailments. Even more, we will improve family harmony, social and international around us.
then emphasizes that today's world is how to improve the constant practice of compassion. So our minds will become habits and we can address this fully enjoy a positive attitude towards reality. Finally stressed that at the end of his presentation, in an act of noble simplicity simply tells us that if anything we have found the reason, let us implement it, because it will benefit everyone.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

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What we have

"This is the law in Medellin,
governing
forward to Earth. Take note. "

Fernando Vallejo," The Lady of the Assassins. "
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Medellín, Colombia, Latin America. Land of disenchantment, violence and confusion, poverty, corruption, politics, poverty. Bread days reflected in the prose of writer Fernando Vallejo, our misanthropic character-author. The narrator of a decrepit reality, where both rich and poor, fall into their circular sins. The above greedy below the rabid, fighting a fault that they are both owners and players. As a result, a charming violence, so common as Mrs. Death, our eternal companion (friend). What do
up there to fix this? Then fighting and stealing, great solution "And down there? Great also kill and steal. The solution to this is, because no, complement each other in a vicious circle of corruption and unforgiven, where law and the constitution is nothing more than paper with ink, the moral one shot - of a hitman - Air and death as governor.

However, we have a society victim and victimizer of these large estates. What lies in a company undervalued, lost, without looking up from where the leak is eternal rest and the damned will continue to live.

Let us, then, as society has turned to a Christian-pagan, which is the only existing lifeline. Imagine, going to church, and finds hundreds of young Catholics praying to the representations, "not beautiful? But he knows that is the background of this prayer: first, young people are hired (the gunman is a hired murderer) asking the Virgin not to miss the next shot murderer, do you feel beautiful now? This is love: the churches on Sundays are crowded, especially behind, where a scent is rested and happy young people listening to breathe, is the smell of cocaine lighting. Still, this is the only element linking the narrator to his past Medellín, religiosity. For though the prayers vary, devotees are restricted to the most ancient religious traditions for their parcels.

On with the people who live in the communities and themselves. First, the communes, violent slum, stationed in the outlying heights of Medellín, called Medal of Vallejo. In these places taking part the vicious scenes that will undoubtedly present in the rest of Latin America, whether in the favelas of Brazil, the Chilean population in the Bolivian altiplano, or highlands. Ironic position closer to the sky for long descent into hell. It is here in the Medal, which created the famous Assassins, true representatives of a youth abandoned and resentful because of the despair and resentment. What do they do these famous Assassins? Kill. "On behalf of whom? Of drug traffickers, then ... for love. And it seems to be in the name of God, the Devil appears in person. And the fault is not theirs, they did not choose to kill, they chose to kill them, therefore, is nobody's fault ... sorry, we would like the winner is - drum roll - the company! Hermosa feedback!

Now to the press. The harbingers of death and regeneration of this withering evil. Playing on a chessboard with an arm that moves the chips, called general public. No doubt the king and queen are the rich and the state, the peasants, the illiterate, the ignorant, manipulated. Even more disenchanted with multiple daily obituaries, collapsed by Sicarii and Exterminating Angel.

With that last still to our next topic. The councilor of Medellin, Death, so busy the poor. The Hitmen have been dedicated to doing a great job of helping drug traffickers and reducing the number of convicts, so much so that public service has failed to supply, if not even reach the beds for all the dead!
But this is why. We know that death ruled Medellin and not the law, that the Assassins are responsible for killing, doctors to cure and overflowing morgues. But the real reason for this is that death has become law. First was killed by order, that's fine. But now that people are already se acostumbró, ahora se sigue haciendo por inercia, por instinto y sobre todo por venganza, si no era por encargo era por venganza. En verdad se mata por todo, porque me caes mal, porque me diste un codazo o me dijiste un garabato e incluso por llevar la radio muy fuerte, por absolutamente todo, nada se escapa. La muerte es la ley absoluta, después de ella no hay nada más. Es la violencia en su forma más pura. Les repito, la dictadora.

Querían quedar impunes, ja, los políticos, cómo se nos iban a escapar. ¿Inocentes? Ni pensarlo, pero tampoco más culpables que los demás. Pues todos viven al límite de su propia culpabilidad. Son un virus que utilizan como medio de reproducción el narcotráfico and corruption. You do not become political masters the Lesos. We have a good and bad news. Good, that's naive not to sin. The bad news is that all the rest itself, remember that this is being sentenced as if still living. Steal from the people, fattening their pockets and throw the end (of stealing of course), why not better engaged to resolve? Clearly this is not its purpose, but had begun to try to do it the right way, I repeat, a good way.

But all is not doom in society, of course not. After all, the work of Vallejo is not just that, so ignore the love story between Fernando and Alexis would a crime. For the narrator of this novel, which insistidamente shows his total disillusionment with the current reality, the relationship with the teen gunman, Alexis, is the exhaust. An encounter with the true feelings of tenderness and affection. That love affair has homosexual character is irrelevant to the background story, but it can be an autobiography of the author concept. Each passage of play which tells the passion with which these two beings immersed in the most uncomfortable of positions within a violent and misguided society, suggests that there is still some grain of salvation. Impossible to put aside the hope, is something we would be without it really?
There
that the above sentence in any way is not it, that better then you turn around one hundred and eighty degrees. Discuss how the story and its union with the merits, would not be bad at this point. The vitality of Vallejo's narrative shows us firsthand with who we really are getting into. A famous Latin American as some would catapult initiator of a new literary trend on the continent. His acid criticism, his aggressive language, the emotion of his story are perfectly formed in his writing, as the reader may feel consumed by the story, or blinded by his criticism. No full stop, but abundant coma and the end point, this undoubtedly gives an appearance that he was sitting in our living telling us the trip to his homeland. His scribbled our vocabulary reflects the violence of our own language and reflections that appear at times less suitable express the transience of life that we are condemned to lead. When we can convince all that, comes the remise, as anticipated by the unexpected ending of the love story: Part of parcero doin '(friend) and then quickly dismissed, leaving conversándote evidence was not in the living room, but the street or on the bus where they met.

Finally, after all the scribbling, do we have left. We have denoted the depressing nature may not return behind a society. In a society thief, murderer, immoral, lost, gone ... really, what is left ...
*
This paper was written jointly by Loyola Cristobal Matias Callejas and who writes on the occasion of a literary competition held last year. In the event we got a remarkable participation, even when we thought we could have done better.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Does Anthem Blue Cover Nose Job

Madam President


last few weeks have been pretty chaotic for the Ministry of Education. Of course, the portfolio has been forced to respond to the rising tide of unrest that has arisen in an organized educational institutions across the country. Through various forms, sparkling, convening and teaching young people have settled in different parts of the country to bring their respectable government demands. Has
I stop writing this to state my observations on the case, not consider transcendental hacérseme more necessary to stress a few details that so many have gone unnoticed din. The President has reached the highest office in government with a speech highly representative of society: human sensitivity, warmth, woman, its socialist past is able to meet the Armed Forces and undeniable charisma served to give support to this figure, emerging from a citizen suit maniobraje itself rather than political. Perhaps both believed that fifty percent relapsed there more of the personal hopes, the truth is that Madam President found himself filled with the real scope of his office. His first mistake, the May 21, perhaps a product of bad advice (most likely) did that day with the intention of giving an efficient sample of its weight and authority. Serious misconduct for his first big test (- 0.5 points), you forgot, Michell, students came with several months of waiting practical solutions, long enough to be devised tricks to harden the character of these demonstrations and not giving jumps to step back from his shaky handed. He must indeed have risen with more high-sight, understanding the merits of this case and not as speculative and superficial as those images put you in the press.
However, to a deeper issue and therefore more controversial. I think the ombudsmen involved and responsible for education in Chile, I refer to those most worried about the political tug of pedagogical vocation of a teacher, a teacher who knows the reality of students, who in my opinion, is the power (if you include appropriate advice) to devise an educational plan focused and effective. When we have leaders who have not participated with the real interests and concerns of students is largely obvious that the programs raised by them will be poor and large gaps denote the short and medium term will give rise to signs of dissatisfaction as we have seen in recent days. Second
fall, Mr. Minister, do you know the word organization? Seems to have no awareness of the seriousness of the matter, I see self-conscious and even smiling to explain the thousand and one ways in which the Coalition has acted in Chilean education. But erremos naive, here there is only one political blame: those who have supported and promoted changes in recent years. Minister has invited you as students want to integrate a table open and unrestricted discussion, see displays of openness and dialogue, but little common sense. I learned not to predict the extent of their words. So makes me think that I never thought he was being filmed by the national press. Judgement for today
May 30, youth attacked, repressed violently by the police. What I smell here is not that violence is unmanageable for the high command, rather an order that emanates from there, with the only order to appease the existing scandal. It was not enough to stop the previous days, had to put icing on the cake and this repression, which explains the form as defined above, or simply because the authorities are incapable of exercising real authority over public security institutions, it does eloquent.
In conclusion, I think I have listened to the President during his campaign that any candidate to speak was a clown. The truth is that today I see a circus in his government. It only takes three months, perhaps it is the preface of what will happen in four years in office. Madam President, again, has been called to lead and represent, do not hide, that we want to see bright and charismatic. So as if nothing happens here, so as if you sent here
final note: Professor, is recuperative

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Colors On Bottom Of Beer Cans

Soccer Of Me Alborada




Cancheria played Johhny Ball Everton,
then went to Colo-Colo . Hence
was in the Chivas de Guadalajara
and later went to play for Villareal.
He even wear the shirt of Barcelona.
He retired from football in Chile had so little money that had eaten
himself
ball which was kicked twenty five years ago for the first time.

Sunday, April 2, 2006

How To Get God Time On Idrag Paper



"Over the sea ice that nobody knows,
an iceberg passed as a huge lily,
spend more quiet than the big ships and the sea
lights of intense whiteness."

Gabriela Mistral The Song of Los Indios

unknown lands man in a distant dawn saw fueguino peek into wet sand and cool links. Since then emerged with their brown faces, horizontal, wide cheeks, mouth falling, large plant and harmonious body from the inhospitable nature of the wild South. It was planted between stormy rains, leaving their mark spread wide, which mixed as an equal, a male guanaco, the wild pampa and the lost channels. They took the tree and opened fire. Taught him to be nomadic and so, so like his own raw, hard and proud fire walked the desolate island, spread by step and ended up teaching ahombrado between the oceans, between the endless dark night and the name of the southern land . Hunted, as they were hunted by the wind, and I can see still, her face sullen and crystallized, their arrows run losses to the leather walking up to his fellow death. Logs and devoured their flesh, took their skins and were entertained, tore their fat and were protected. Knew no slavery of the subject, but always appreciated genius and human ability. Sin wrong though, if somewhat wild nature and fierce Templar lay a domain and unacceptable to replicas, was the power of sex, the woman who was simply obedient flora subdued the man, sun and rain.
But while some took in their hands the forests and grasslands, and there clung against the wind, fly to other channels dejáronse satins, that eternal moment in time were able to enrage his heart and formed into ridges, mountains and sea vultures . Sea were these Indians dissimilar to others, even when they retain the mud that forged them, were more amorphous and small. But that does not declined, flourished on the contrary, more jovial and polyurethane foam, of smiles and loving eyes of his land. They channel, among many, today English name, his life and shell. From its depths, with the savagery of survival, the beauty of predation, absorbed his riches fell from below molluscs, penguins, seals and fish. Emerge the female swimmer, with subtle mastery and obedience naive, indifferent to the icy water of the ocean, oblivious to the roar of those channels.

The Evening of Story

happened that one day, from the distance of an ocean from the vastness of another story appeared in the sky background star ocean timber. That was the white hand of our adoptive mother, the English grip that came to stay, to put an end to the maternal line, to end the story of man and nature. Could see, maybe not, open your eyes to Magellan from your deck and watch from there, from the pangs of a sea murderer, little lights up infinite survival. They thought that was able to escape from hell, its secret entrances. Felt from afar as the indomitable heat was eaten by cold ancestral wild years.
hidden landscapes rather than a biblical Eden, escaped from civilized topography, green walls, the fierce ocean, night blinds, wildlife live prey of imperialism were not arrogant, an adventurer who brought a new world where land and sea fueguino did not fit. Well, I must be clear, the man reached in the first instance was fierce, bold and severe, victim, like the Indian, a splendid time and hypocritical. But it took years
eternal, also spent centuries in Spain and tried to hunt the white man could not, wanted to hunt the nature and she chased him. The denuder won, of course, but we can tell the pride of the red blood of our indigenous heritage, that this man had to suffer with the untamed grace our distance in a remote desert island. Dam were not bullet cold, hunger insulation is not cannon, land alone is not forgotten that boat.
already said that they were defeated, his ears and his blood flew frost seeded the extermination of a noble race in paradise for their children. Everything was running swiftly and it was a natural metaphysical underworld was being kept in the trunk of history, where it is eaten away the memory of his language, the silence of their lives, the goodness of its people, the portrayal of their bodies.
Finally, to make a trial already known, other men came from even further and made it disappear. Whipped diseases and their hardened bodies did not tolerate the impurity of civilization. Fell as soldiers in their land, as the rain that revived, as the river when it reaches the sea, simply fell silent and forgotten in the miraculous land where two oceans meet, where contrast our fears and illusions, where our story breaks and civilization is born. As Martin Gusinde asked the priest, photographer of these towns, I examined him in the same way: Where have they been, the people beautiful, simple and robust, hardened by inclement weather? They, the legitimate sons of this land, they had to give up their pastures to thousands of sheep graze peacefully in the vast steppes! ...

Friday, March 10, 2006

Where Do They Sell Nike Fuse Red Bat

The Cause Youth, Adulthood Consequences

"Always the same story is repeated: each individual thinks of nothing but itself" Sophocles


Embroiled to say less about me is alarming but not enough to be (although Shall) . So make me feel the conclusions these days I'm developing. I have the feeling that we, the youth, we are punished by society, doomed to be the consequence. The reason is obvious: the environment, globalization invigorating, adrenaline, with heavy doses of paranoia and the same catharsis. The problem is there, from very close, dry, pulsating rhythm of a hectic life where the motto is "urgent but not important at all."
Our parents are the heirs of a life where everyday amenities did not exist and had to deal with the few technological advances of his time. That marked. Universal receivers were also hard times, political clashes, feel sudacas, flagging an idea (which they believed less dirty), and were eating the dry grass of a lapse in history where the break occurs between the mechanical and digital, between the eternal and the instant, between the obstruction and accessibility, between them and their children. They learned to marvel, and being old, with new devices: television, computer, CD, Internet, mobile phones, etc. They learned to keep a distance, knew it did not correspond at all, then the owners would their children. And expectations were, they saw it all easier than it had touched them. Then they decided to make plans: a career, a position, effort, money, recognition. There we wanted, there reciprocate. But something happened, the task remained incomplete. Their heads were filled with machines, chips, screens, speakers, nuts and buttons ... I still do not know, they lacked affection, respect, virtue, simplicity, simplicity and pause.
realized this a few days ago, when my father told me with a serious tone but more sincere than many times have I heard: "Your generation is going to be that of the materialists, individual and competitive." I was pávido, cold in the vertebrae and with an air of some injustice. He had been clear, precise and concise. Our lives have been traced in statistics where we are more than numbers, that's what we owe. We will be the generation of stars, the problem is that we like to shine more than others, to illuminate both light invisible to our fellow men, we only want to be seen. It will, perhaps, a dictatorship: the ego. Today
breathe it among ourselves, we see often but do not accept it. It will be a taboo in the coming years will be used as a euphemism for "bad material heritage." We're trying to be the best, hurry to our years. If you are 18 and you're in school you are a late, note!, A late, what please?!: The end of the day nobody can say that. In any case, better to be late and have a thousand years ahead of a hastily that right around the corner will be made dead. We have known
anesthesia, indeed, enough. Sound much everywhere, are discussed in governments, NGOs, our parents speak enough of that and some do not speak, simply get richer. Our bonds are dashed, the pressures disappear like air from a punctured balloon, everything begins to tour boats. And both drowning, that we fall into a false idea childishly break, we cook in a tangled that seduces us to get excited when we tested it then. I'm talking about the drug, magical realism that transports us to Eden, makes us imagine infinite traces to happiness but when in the imagined glory of peace and non-existent sky, the beautiful disappears giving way to a dark world smelling of sewage and wet debris. So inside we get older, with smiley faces to a beheader, anorexic and supplier of leisure revenge. We know the cynicism and hypocrisy, let us put the best face that we are happy to act. Then comes the most beautiful of all, our last lifeline, we stick to the easy, from what we are worthless. We fell in love vanity, fresh green dollar, we seek to scrub more worrying in the face to someone. Consequently, we get complacent with ourselves, arrogant with non existent. We did not choose a god to worship podérsele all gone on to serve the God of green with several zeros to the right, that that is useful, nothing more. Among consummation
I do think that maybe, though we refuse, we will live many more years but will age youth. Have we left the trail of an elusive young, we were just ideals to be postponed to our personal concerns. I hope to be wrong, but maybe we will die without us down in the street, not steal a book to read with the holy pleasure of writing about an act of kindness damn benign, we have not drunk coffee strong, not know the best way to lie, let side and also fall in love, procreate, well, we a selfish.
not think I write all this with persistent and malicious sponsorship. I am not prophet. I mean, in the form of comfort, which are a thousand and one possibilities of our lives, a thousand are the chances that I'm wrong. But, as someone said, I smell something bad in this story. Come feel weak construction, something like a Tower of Babel not know how to carry their destination. Or something like the story of the three little pigs, our lives are built on lightweight, there will be no cement mixed with feelings and virtues, that we will falter and get old. But as the story was a third pig built his house of bricks and mortar, gave a lot of work and bad times. But succumbing when the wind was blowing the wolf, resisted. I have faith in those who will their lives stronger and stronger pillars can accommodate others whose lives have been wrecked in the ecstasy of something that never was.
In these times where we do not listen, where we live mean, where life is passing and we were beside the road, I prefer to try to combat everything that's eluded me, chasing something and stumble if necessary, be late to rest a minute and see others running in the distance, as I leave the way clear. I hope to afford the pleasure of simple things: the unexpected smiles, soft hands, the wind in my face, stars nocturnal, barefoot summer nights, the winter with a cup of coffee, hard work, a cigar without trouble, a kiss for no reason (this reminds me of Michael, the character in a fairy Fuguet). Here
term and overwhelm us the most. I have faith, as I said, those who want to do something different. But you know who I expect a lot more of our children. They include the martyrdom of our lives, grungy number of years worked, believe you can change it and no doubt they will. Be as prepared as us but will not forget you also have to leave, when necessary, run away with dreams, reinvent between the colors of life are unclear. As I said today in philosophy class: "They will know that life does not distinguish walking on a barren mountain in the middle of a storm, which is not otherwise expected to climb and reach the top, life is, however, more serene and fragile. Life is like a flat valley and dense, where you have to walk slowly to meet the beauty of it, with its rivers and animals, with the moon and sun. "

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Brazilian In Training

Story Of A Special Day



"I have committed the worst sin one can commit. I've been happy
Jorge Luis Borges


is my last day of vacation and the fact is I've gotten a few strange things. Of those countless things metaphysically but right now I crave each story to help me with your own conclusions. But before you tell me that both a human being can feel that something infinitely related can cumulatively committed in just one day, last of all. Although it is by the way, these perceptions are specific, others can not understand them to be very accurate either, however unreal that have been made.
all starts last night, after having patiently read column in The Mercury News article. As soon as I closed the diary and turned off the lights gave my room I fell asleep. Unconscious and began to happen in my dreams a series of events that make me very difficult to describe there are no adequate words that could reflect. I can only add that I sounded much the concept of multidimensional universes. " In my dream I was falling in different energy levels to be able to reach a kind of earthly level. I was in a large, dark room, there were many unknown people and the silence was perpetual. There I was alone and uncomprehending, as if to escape something that I was superior and did not understand. Just something special and unexpected could change the course of my feelings, of course was, that something happened. Among the many people who I could see him, with its slow pace, his blind eyes and years old. I was unmistakable, was exactly as I knew him in the photos, was undoubtedly Jorge Luis Borges. My heart sped up the trance, I reached out my hand to hold the cuff of his jacket. At that moment I was snatched from him a value, I think, stupid but intriguing question, why had a fascination with encyclopedias? Thus, so as usual, just after delivering the last syllable of my question, my dream is gone.
In the morning I had to go to Providence to meet a minor errands for the high school. Had decided to move to a nearby galleries to buy about two or three used book after completing my respective procedures. Intended to buy two works, the first was "The Curious Incident of the Dog Midnight" by Mark Haddon. The second book I had a lot of attention because of an upcoming movie was "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote. I must admit that I was so determined but it certainly was not my preference. Now go to the point: two books ended up taking completely different, "Red and Black" by Stendhal and "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. The funny thing is that I know absolutely nothing about them but I'm still under my new acquisitions. I kept talking to
bookshelf, we know from a used book fair, on different works which are in their fascination. For him the biggest thing is born from the letters is Stefan Zweig, he even has a preferred space within your small business library. I told him I still could not decide who my favorite author but so far I was happy with many. He, a great knower, I told the story of Cousiño actually conceived as the voyage of exploration of Columbus. I listened attentively and without interruption. Suddenly I remembered that I really wanted to read "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair", and mentioned it from the bottom of a shelf pulled a book grungy, worn, quite opaque and of a quality that I attracted a lot of attention. It was precisely the work that I mentioned earlier, except I thought that cost no more than five thousand pesos. My surprise was great to hear that this copy cost no less than sixty thousand dollars. The reason was overwhelming and amazing, was not the first edition was the fourth. The special thing was that after opening the cover was an inscription written with green letters by hand and with them a flower. The words were simple: "To my friend Edward Bello Joaquín de Pablo Neruda."
When I got to ride the mic is back home, I saw that behind me was a man with his face completely painted. I thought at first that it was a mime, but after studying su ropa supe que no podía serlo. Llevaba un bastón en la mano, su cara blanca traía arrugas gruesas intencionalmente pintadas. Vestía un cortaviento blanco que estaba abierto, debajo llevaba una camiseta celeste y una huma café en el cuello. Finalmente lo coronaba un gorro del mismo tono que el cortaviento. Daba la impresión de ser un viejo acabado por los años, un resignado de la vida que empezaba a despedirse sin gloria alguna. Subió hablando fuerte, saludando a todos, para luego empezar a decirnos:

“Si pudiera vivir nuevamente mi vida,
en la próxima trataría de cometer más errores.
No intentaría ser tan perfect, I would relax more.
would be sillier than I have been
very few actually take things seriously ... "*

was a magic moment. I feel that in a city that breathes smog tiresome and mechanical routine, there are still shell for shelter and moments of joy. To surprise us like children, to hallucinate without drugs, to realms without morbidity, of course, too, to enjoy without guilt.
* The above poem is not written by Jorge Luis Borges, was not my intention atribuísela.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Sore Lower Back, Chills, Cough

Being a Promise



"None loves his country because it is big, but because it is his " Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Upon the chili lost between sea and mountains, glaciers dump
, forests and deserts, a belt tied
water and land,
a spring garden watered by the snow was dry
yellow in the southernmost in the world.

was a rainbow invested trutruca
a Mapuche,
a rowing boat,
a dull knife,
was a volcano in the Pacific,
a hero without a win, a cradle
crazy writers.

sun was fragmented in the streets,
a desert flowers, a gray
life
a hill of houses,
was a heaven on earth.

nitrate was pain,
wealth of copper, coal
injustice,
was the uncertainty of a fisherman,
the work of planting, pastor
isolation. He was a liberator

Irish
a guerrilla in the nineteenth century,
dead brothers,
a lion in the desert, a captain addressed
glory.

Today I wonder what will be:
a father, a mother
,
I am today.

Today is my Chile a haven in these times, a young man growing
,
a blasphemy of God,
a biblical command,
a planet that is stuck,
my country today is a contract of men,
my country today is a promise of love .