What is an ocean?
The sea is just a long dream that is dreaming the earth
between swings of only
... 's the dream of sleeping on the ground
a flame ... And what a dream? A dream ... let's see ... a dream ...
leave the lesson for today ...
(Dulce Maria Loynaz. Poetess Cubana)
view the latest movements that emerge in this part of history where I live (Bolivia); perceive the importance of this time, the weight that can weigh on the lives of so many ordinary men and women, wet one or more times in the baptism of blood and mud, sand, rocks, sun and rain, in order to meet the art of life and the right to shape their own destiny.
choose an event among many, more or less sharp, one that had international implications: the victory of "Yes" and then approve the new Political Constitution of the Bolivian State. A State such as scans of the same text: multinational and multi-ethnic.
Like any socio-political event, this causes different echoes, both nationally and internationally, but I personally do not want to comment on this new possibility to which we have come as a people, but rather collect a few questions, as in the poem that introduces my reflections , behind the life and consistently, even in this case, God help us if we stop to make, even if only in the secrecy of our introspective stories. What is an ocean ... an ocean ... ... a sleepy land ... a dream. No coincidence that I chose a poet who is part of Cuban cultural tradition, not randomly pick its echo left over time, even beyond his dream or his own life and that of her island.
As always, more deliberately, my thoughts remain suspended at the present time and, as he sings this beautiful poem ... will leave tomorrow for the answer ... as well as any dream, before achieving a more or less certain, will never cease to accompany and follow us every day that has yet to come.
historical echoes
I know very well that, due to the political situation in Europe and especially the Italian, every intuition Exchange alternative in the political world seems to revive the breath of those who still dreams a policy different from that for years has consolidated economic power and social post-modern neo-liberalism.
For this, I understand that each echo that reaches the ears of the sensitive audience hungry for new micro and macro policy strategies, raises spirits and creates an aura of hope, especially in those people or groups that have always accompanied the processes of self-determination in different continents and with different subjects. E 'therefore normal that the social achievements of people with indigenous majority, or the introduction of new political actors on the world, like Obama, suggesting the realization of a dream. It 'also normal that, at least in areas of traditional left, look forward to the widespread political movement of the peoples of Latin America, including reflections metaphysical and alternative practices of life and economy.
And it is from the Latin American landscape that by now a bit 'of years, come, although in a different way, echoes of change. We are all hope and sympathy to the daily metamorphosis of countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela summoned and assisted by an increasingly "leading actor". Despite all this, these nations involved in political processes that attract attention and encourage the hope of many, in fact, are still wrapped in currents that somehow blocking the way bond between old and new.
Maybe that's why, who is on this side of the world, those who received the first strategic moves of multitudes of people in their daily demands, dreams of dignity and prosperity, is the ancestral loyalty and new economic and social strategies, perceived that the road is still long. Anyone who has seen it up close and warned about their skin and that of others a feeling of excitement, seeing several times a succession of presidents or entire governments, within a few months, days, hours or seconds, it is probably subject to a more critical view on what's happening in the world and also in Latin America and the world, certainly not peaceful and not content to see the assembled heads of state of these emerging countries, or listen to their speeches, even when each trace a single plot and a single strategy.
E 'on this point that break the lines of the Cuban poet and especially the last part of the dream ... ... the answer left for tomorrow ... So, even if adhering and supporting the secret dreams and the practical processes of change and continuing to oppose vigorously and critically to those who do want to deflect any attempt to weaken these processes and alternative. In fact, I keep an underlying nostalgia for something that, for now, we have only seen or ... hailed from afar, as stated in the biblical text of the New Testament letter to the Hebrews (cf. Heb 11).
The ghost of populism
Surrounded thus by these processes still in place, experiencing restless nights that feed thoughts, fears, but even more dreams, it all comes back to mind an ancient prophetic text, in my view, very interesting at this juncture in Latin America. I am referring to some verses of the prophetic book of Daniel, a kind of lamentation to which, today, as then, maybe we have not yet understood the true meaning and its mystical power-politics. in the growth of a people and a humanity in search of recognition of his maturity, as Bonhoeffer would say, a world age. And it is staying on this side of the world that today, come back to biblical image as a silent challenge launched with new players and perennial political or policy in general, a policy that seems to fall into the same plots ever.
The text to which I refer is that of Daniel 3.38: ... now there is no longer among us the prince, or caudillo prophet, priest and sacrifice, sacrifice, oblation nor incense nor a place where we can offer our first fruits ..
This text, probably picked up by a long litany of pain, and remembered always regarded dramatic moments along the journey of a people in search of liberation, in fact, in my opinion, implies something much more profound and inspiring. Perhaps it could become a real and critical to a mentality that underlies reality in every political view and religious type soteriological (Saving)
It seems that in every process of liberation, economic and social growth and responsibility, we can not think without anyone to guide us, so it will take the place of ourselves and of our responsibilities. It almost seems that then, as now, always and all seek a representative, a mediator, a leader, someone to lead.
I refer to processes of change that, one way or another, fall into a certain caudillismo or populism that in the end is a new process of domination of a few immensity that no one can count and still is the one and only true star of the historical evolution and revolution in economic and political were born the same principles, priests and caudillos.
The alternative art of survival of the people, remains a mystery behind something that, for example, from the standpoint of theology, law and as a true work of a divine dream that alternative as the genesis of the times, flew over the waters and created even more chaos to give birth to endless and different lives. It 'still not certain that this art alternative is synonymous with perfection or absence of ambiguity, but with ever-new options and changes. And probably there that play the lament of the prophet. To think that the people have always need of persons who are from brokers and then from political or religious leader. Since this seems to lament that we never go without offices or obvious institutional figures that represent us. In this perspective it seems that we all fall down and left and right are similar and overlap, as well as meets religious and political institutions.
While the adult world that is considered good or evil and tries to get rid of any addiction, doctrinal, ideological, political system also what is presented as an alternative to the old systems can not invent and think in another way.
So the lament of the prophet in the biblical framework could also understand, since it meant that the roles of the symbolic universe people of Israel, at present, it could be reread in another way. A story, in fact, that you continue to think represented by chiefs, priests or prophets is not yet a society that is truly responsible and creative. Indeed these processes take a very ambiguous coating processes of liberation of a deeply populist tone and we know that every populism is still negative.
Today, without flinching or deny the historical part of Latin America, we feel that the moment we live is not a new political order, but an attempt still far from what could be an alternative possibility. Actually, even here, we found yet another way of doing politics. We were confident in the wisdom alternative, management of different life and different worldviews. As a woman, in reality, this criticism and this fear, which I attribute to the model is still a common socio-political model that is part of the collective imagination of men, after centuries, we still can not get rid of. Every revolution and evolution seem possible only if carried out by these men's representatives. E 'symptoms in the prophecy of Daniel, as this lamentation revolves around the lack of male leaders. So nowadays, the Latin American policy is still suffering from this danger, it seems that the human being who needs to recover its heroes, indigenous or mestizo, but leaders who feel Representatives of a multitude, in processes that ensure the survival for now but are not yet a real alternative possibility. Without underestimating anything about these processes in the world, the reality does not look as if they were real visions of liberation, but rather, we are critical, feeling that for now we just saw something and that these are processes of transition that need to be accompanied and that they need not only to economic and political support or solidarity, but an acute critical sense and ascetic vigilance not to abandon a dream where sooner or later and very fortunately, there will be no more prophets, nor principles, nor priests ... no special places for particular mediations.
I know that these views are questionable and probably for those people who read certain magazines or web pages can be thought dangerous because, after all the world forum still think that we have already found alternative spaces and that the people are aware of these processes of change and especially of what these processes entail. But my anxiety continues, because what makes these processes are not only weaker external threats, the ambiguous political and economic games of international financial institutions or the octopus of the powers of transnational entities with their political mafia is also accompanied by religious ones. What makes our precarious jobs alternative are also some internal factors such as a caudillismo political models now or never outdated imagery posmoderrno individual human being and especially the bands of other cultural backgrounds and those in younger age groups, but in fact remain in validity in the policy framework more common. Perhaps once again the victory of opposition to any change is this, make to defend themselves, these political actors seem to alternative, return to the old populist positions, with army-style flavor with a welfare state, something that ensures mediocrity of every citizen, however, something that perpetuates ambiguous relations between the sexes, something that did need to educate to a deep narrow worldview, far from the historic birth of dialogue, where the individual without the usual social structures is nothing and goes in the grip of a depression and social policy as well as psychological. Errors that continue to occur, even if each accuse the other of them propitiated, first in these countries, however, where the majority has always been at the mercy of religious beliefs or political assistance with listings of liberation, in fact, have ensure that human consciousness is directly linked to the edge of addiction, and of spiritual and social, because those who secured the release and the life was, however, an intermediary, a mediator and if representative of the male sex, the better.
Today, as the processes of self-determination of peoples has intensified what has not increased is the structure of this process, however, always follows the same parameters and then take the same risks, falling in a practice rather than take the colors of a process of autonomy of the human being, seems to be constantly anchored to the primordial state of human need that has a religious being, but definitely not mystical or its socio-political insights like an eternal return to the Olympians of the Greek gods.
How we would like instead, utter this lament on the reverse: for ... Fortunately, today we no longer prince, prophet, priest ... because your dreams in another biblical text, the prophet Joel, everyone has the opportunity to dream: young and old, freemen and slaves become free ... (cf. Thu 3, 1-2 -).
Perhaps this is an illusion anarchist, maybe, but it is an intuition of those who continue to believe in parts of the survival of ordinary men and women, in the paths of research and OAS human desire to lead others in the dynamics of strength and life, because, as the philosopher Edgar Morin would say there is only the prose poetry survive while the other hand, gives us life ...
Unfortunately, it seems that the policy is still linked to the prose, and that every change, ultimately leads to the mediocrity of being citizens, indigenous or mestizo, but poor people insured by the certainty that someone will think, and watch over us and we will ensure survival.
An 'old dialectic, therefore, between the mediocrity of a story that assures me survive and creativity of a dream that wakes up constantly, as poetic inspiration, not only to live and survive.
Europe as always, especially the left, perhaps looks with hope to those with taste revolutionary movements of peoples, perhaps to console or soothe his conscience after the failure of a domestic and foreign policy very badly managed. And so today, as today this dream has been added to the myth of Obama with all that this person is individual and collective identity of the complexity of North America. But in actual life of those who actually fought in a long slumber and disturbing and most times, crossing the paths of the limit of survival, the myth is no longer enough. Just as it's just more the sense of a collective imagination, because he wants to walk again with her own two feet. It 's so that its creative strength and static safe ruffles currents of the winds which originated as whirling unstoppable but that the official will has become repetitive and flat, like heavy blankets on the path of the people. We recognize that we humans so we move again nell'ottusa vision of those who think that others are still in need of someone, so we built our individual and collective and symbolic universes withered dream, fortunately there is a total unconsciousness, which drives the dreams and turn the night into areas of significant research and disturbing expectations. Let us therefore
careful, attentive, as witnesses of a dream that moves in the existence of ordinary men and women who, probably, without knowing the whole history of ideological parties and political movements, has the wonderful scent of a "next life possible, " an 'another story, an' other logic, other reports, other exchanges, other institutional projects, other laws and other cultural ways and wisdom of this synergistic ecoantropologica history.
choose an event among many, more or less sharp, one that had international implications: the victory of "Yes" and then approve the new Political Constitution of the Bolivian State. A State such as scans of the same text: multinational and multi-ethnic.
Like any socio-political event, this causes different echoes, both nationally and internationally, but I personally do not want to comment on this new possibility to which we have come as a people, but rather collect a few questions, as in the poem that introduces my reflections , behind the life and consistently, even in this case, God help us if we stop to make, even if only in the secrecy of our introspective stories. What is an ocean ... an ocean ... ... a sleepy land ... a dream. No coincidence that I chose a poet who is part of Cuban cultural tradition, not randomly pick its echo left over time, even beyond his dream or his own life and that of her island.
As always, more deliberately, my thoughts remain suspended at the present time and, as he sings this beautiful poem ... will leave tomorrow for the answer ... as well as any dream, before achieving a more or less certain, will never cease to accompany and follow us every day that has yet to come.
historical echoes
I know very well that, due to the political situation in Europe and especially the Italian, every intuition Exchange alternative in the political world seems to revive the breath of those who still dreams a policy different from that for years has consolidated economic power and social post-modern neo-liberalism.
For this, I understand that each echo that reaches the ears of the sensitive audience hungry for new micro and macro policy strategies, raises spirits and creates an aura of hope, especially in those people or groups that have always accompanied the processes of self-determination in different continents and with different subjects. E 'therefore normal that the social achievements of people with indigenous majority, or the introduction of new political actors on the world, like Obama, suggesting the realization of a dream. It 'also normal that, at least in areas of traditional left, look forward to the widespread political movement of the peoples of Latin America, including reflections metaphysical and alternative practices of life and economy.
And it is from the Latin American landscape that by now a bit 'of years, come, although in a different way, echoes of change. We are all hope and sympathy to the daily metamorphosis of countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela summoned and assisted by an increasingly "leading actor". Despite all this, these nations involved in political processes that attract attention and encourage the hope of many, in fact, are still wrapped in currents that somehow blocking the way bond between old and new.
Maybe that's why, who is on this side of the world, those who received the first strategic moves of multitudes of people in their daily demands, dreams of dignity and prosperity, is the ancestral loyalty and new economic and social strategies, perceived that the road is still long. Anyone who has seen it up close and warned about their skin and that of others a feeling of excitement, seeing several times a succession of presidents or entire governments, within a few months, days, hours or seconds, it is probably subject to a more critical view on what's happening in the world and also in Latin America and the world, certainly not peaceful and not content to see the assembled heads of state of these emerging countries, or listen to their speeches, even when each trace a single plot and a single strategy.
E 'on this point that break the lines of the Cuban poet and especially the last part of the dream ... ... the answer left for tomorrow ... So, even if adhering and supporting the secret dreams and the practical processes of change and continuing to oppose vigorously and critically to those who do want to deflect any attempt to weaken these processes and alternative. In fact, I keep an underlying nostalgia for something that, for now, we have only seen or ... hailed from afar, as stated in the biblical text of the New Testament letter to the Hebrews (cf. Heb 11).
The ghost of populism
Surrounded thus by these processes still in place, experiencing restless nights that feed thoughts, fears, but even more dreams, it all comes back to mind an ancient prophetic text, in my view, very interesting at this juncture in Latin America. I am referring to some verses of the prophetic book of Daniel, a kind of lamentation to which, today, as then, maybe we have not yet understood the true meaning and its mystical power-politics. in the growth of a people and a humanity in search of recognition of his maturity, as Bonhoeffer would say, a world age. And it is staying on this side of the world that today, come back to biblical image as a silent challenge launched with new players and perennial political or policy in general, a policy that seems to fall into the same plots ever.
The text to which I refer is that of Daniel 3.38: ... now there is no longer among us the prince, or caudillo prophet, priest and sacrifice, sacrifice, oblation nor incense nor a place where we can offer our first fruits ..
This text, probably picked up by a long litany of pain, and remembered always regarded dramatic moments along the journey of a people in search of liberation, in fact, in my opinion, implies something much more profound and inspiring. Perhaps it could become a real and critical to a mentality that underlies reality in every political view and religious type soteriological (Saving)
It seems that in every process of liberation, economic and social growth and responsibility, we can not think without anyone to guide us, so it will take the place of ourselves and of our responsibilities. It almost seems that then, as now, always and all seek a representative, a mediator, a leader, someone to lead.
I refer to processes of change that, one way or another, fall into a certain caudillismo or populism that in the end is a new process of domination of a few immensity that no one can count and still is the one and only true star of the historical evolution and revolution in economic and political were born the same principles, priests and caudillos.
The alternative art of survival of the people, remains a mystery behind something that, for example, from the standpoint of theology, law and as a true work of a divine dream that alternative as the genesis of the times, flew over the waters and created even more chaos to give birth to endless and different lives. It 'still not certain that this art alternative is synonymous with perfection or absence of ambiguity, but with ever-new options and changes. And probably there that play the lament of the prophet. To think that the people have always need of persons who are from brokers and then from political or religious leader. Since this seems to lament that we never go without offices or obvious institutional figures that represent us. In this perspective it seems that we all fall down and left and right are similar and overlap, as well as meets religious and political institutions.
While the adult world that is considered good or evil and tries to get rid of any addiction, doctrinal, ideological, political system also what is presented as an alternative to the old systems can not invent and think in another way.
So the lament of the prophet in the biblical framework could also understand, since it meant that the roles of the symbolic universe people of Israel, at present, it could be reread in another way. A story, in fact, that you continue to think represented by chiefs, priests or prophets is not yet a society that is truly responsible and creative. Indeed these processes take a very ambiguous coating processes of liberation of a deeply populist tone and we know that every populism is still negative.
Today, without flinching or deny the historical part of Latin America, we feel that the moment we live is not a new political order, but an attempt still far from what could be an alternative possibility. Actually, even here, we found yet another way of doing politics. We were confident in the wisdom alternative, management of different life and different worldviews. As a woman, in reality, this criticism and this fear, which I attribute to the model is still a common socio-political model that is part of the collective imagination of men, after centuries, we still can not get rid of. Every revolution and evolution seem possible only if carried out by these men's representatives. E 'symptoms in the prophecy of Daniel, as this lamentation revolves around the lack of male leaders. So nowadays, the Latin American policy is still suffering from this danger, it seems that the human being who needs to recover its heroes, indigenous or mestizo, but leaders who feel Representatives of a multitude, in processes that ensure the survival for now but are not yet a real alternative possibility. Without underestimating anything about these processes in the world, the reality does not look as if they were real visions of liberation, but rather, we are critical, feeling that for now we just saw something and that these are processes of transition that need to be accompanied and that they need not only to economic and political support or solidarity, but an acute critical sense and ascetic vigilance not to abandon a dream where sooner or later and very fortunately, there will be no more prophets, nor principles, nor priests ... no special places for particular mediations.
I know that these views are questionable and probably for those people who read certain magazines or web pages can be thought dangerous because, after all the world forum still think that we have already found alternative spaces and that the people are aware of these processes of change and especially of what these processes entail. But my anxiety continues, because what makes these processes are not only weaker external threats, the ambiguous political and economic games of international financial institutions or the octopus of the powers of transnational entities with their political mafia is also accompanied by religious ones. What makes our precarious jobs alternative are also some internal factors such as a caudillismo political models now or never outdated imagery posmoderrno individual human being and especially the bands of other cultural backgrounds and those in younger age groups, but in fact remain in validity in the policy framework more common. Perhaps once again the victory of opposition to any change is this, make to defend themselves, these political actors seem to alternative, return to the old populist positions, with army-style flavor with a welfare state, something that ensures mediocrity of every citizen, however, something that perpetuates ambiguous relations between the sexes, something that did need to educate to a deep narrow worldview, far from the historic birth of dialogue, where the individual without the usual social structures is nothing and goes in the grip of a depression and social policy as well as psychological. Errors that continue to occur, even if each accuse the other of them propitiated, first in these countries, however, where the majority has always been at the mercy of religious beliefs or political assistance with listings of liberation, in fact, have ensure that human consciousness is directly linked to the edge of addiction, and of spiritual and social, because those who secured the release and the life was, however, an intermediary, a mediator and if representative of the male sex, the better.
Today, as the processes of self-determination of peoples has intensified what has not increased is the structure of this process, however, always follows the same parameters and then take the same risks, falling in a practice rather than take the colors of a process of autonomy of the human being, seems to be constantly anchored to the primordial state of human need that has a religious being, but definitely not mystical or its socio-political insights like an eternal return to the Olympians of the Greek gods.
How we would like instead, utter this lament on the reverse: for ... Fortunately, today we no longer prince, prophet, priest ... because your dreams in another biblical text, the prophet Joel, everyone has the opportunity to dream: young and old, freemen and slaves become free ... (cf. Thu 3, 1-2 -).
Perhaps this is an illusion anarchist, maybe, but it is an intuition of those who continue to believe in parts of the survival of ordinary men and women, in the paths of research and OAS human desire to lead others in the dynamics of strength and life, because, as the philosopher Edgar Morin would say there is only the prose poetry survive while the other hand, gives us life ...
Unfortunately, it seems that the policy is still linked to the prose, and that every change, ultimately leads to the mediocrity of being citizens, indigenous or mestizo, but poor people insured by the certainty that someone will think, and watch over us and we will ensure survival.
An 'old dialectic, therefore, between the mediocrity of a story that assures me survive and creativity of a dream that wakes up constantly, as poetic inspiration, not only to live and survive.
Europe as always, especially the left, perhaps looks with hope to those with taste revolutionary movements of peoples, perhaps to console or soothe his conscience after the failure of a domestic and foreign policy very badly managed. And so today, as today this dream has been added to the myth of Obama with all that this person is individual and collective identity of the complexity of North America. But in actual life of those who actually fought in a long slumber and disturbing and most times, crossing the paths of the limit of survival, the myth is no longer enough. Just as it's just more the sense of a collective imagination, because he wants to walk again with her own two feet. It 's so that its creative strength and static safe ruffles currents of the winds which originated as whirling unstoppable but that the official will has become repetitive and flat, like heavy blankets on the path of the people. We recognize that we humans so we move again nell'ottusa vision of those who think that others are still in need of someone, so we built our individual and collective and symbolic universes withered dream, fortunately there is a total unconsciousness, which drives the dreams and turn the night into areas of significant research and disturbing expectations. Let us therefore
careful, attentive, as witnesses of a dream that moves in the existence of ordinary men and women who, probably, without knowing the whole history of ideological parties and political movements, has the wonderful scent of a "next life possible, " an 'another story, an' other logic, other reports, other exchanges, other institutional projects, other laws and other cultural ways and wisdom of this synergistic ecoantropologica history.
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