The bolt and the Book Day Celebration of San Marcos
(The high altar boy of the right is me with 12 years ... How things change! )
finished my previous post, titled "This week", saying "not so heavy to leave for my next post the continuation of this story or reflection." Admittedly, I sometimes go by the hills of Ubeda (indeed, beautiful city of Ubeda). What at first intended to be a day combining reading the book, Holy Week, ended in public confession and reflection on that week and what woke me. Anyway I have been asked to hang some pictures of the trip and will leave a slide with a selection of them.
And now as I was saying. The symbolism of the rose, the book and the cross of the passion they have some difficulty with the same philosophy incardinated of life. So, on 23 looked for a way to combine the beautiful (the rose) with the literature (the book) and the popular sentiment (Easter) and finished getting squarely in the arrow of Machado, who as you know, says well:
Who lend me a ladder to climb the tree, to remove the nails
Jesus of Nazareth? (Saeta Popular)
Oh, bolt, singing the Christ of the Gypsies, always with blood on their hands, always unlock!
Song of the Andalusian people that walk every spring asking
stairs to climb to the Cross! Song land mine, which casts flowers
the Jesus of the Agony, and is the faith of my ancestors! Oh, you are not my song! I can not sing, or want, this Jesus from the cross, but that he walked in the sea!
For me, Antonio Machado, in this poem, makes a call to rebellion, rejection this Jesus from the cross, which symbolizes martyrdom, pain, freedom from sin through the suffering, the flowers take Jesus agony. This philosophy leads to the cult of suffering as an atonement. The message is that suffering is good, dignified and the pain turned to God to save him original sin. Two questions off the bat: one is that we will be thankful that make us suffer, because we open the path to salvation, if we offer this suffering for others (it was not anything like what we say?) And it hurts ... another would lead to submission to those that cause us suffering, we sink into poverty and misery, who have classes and take over the wealth ... we come to suffer in this world ... good! That Jesus from the cross, which refers Machado, reminds us each year, lest we forget. What are you complaining? Your misery and suffering is nothing compared to what happened that Jesus ... Take doses of humility and acceptance of suffering ... you're ready to handle what you throw, both in the farm and social injustice whatsoever. Suffering brings you closer to God ... thank God for having created us to suffer and who use them to pave the way to eternal salvation, those men in power "by the grace of God." Cult of suffering ... Take a visual on the names of the various guilds and see the incredible, complex and quirky titles.
But the life of Jesus, the crucified Jesus has other readings, at least from what we have come to us, which was heavily manipulated and redefined throughout history. Machado said he preferred that walked on the sea. I, not less, with all my respect for the teacher Machado, I propose three different scenes: He who walked on the sea, which distributed the bread and fish to those attending his sermon and that drove the merchants from the temple. Here's why:
The first is a sign of self-esteem, safety, problem solving, faith in their potential, the domain of the circumstances, why not say, of Utopia, to make possible what is impossible . Is what gives the subject of a strong personality, strong, assertive, self confidence, able to cope with the problems of life, although either alone, with a guarantee of success.
The second is solidarity and sharing with others what little you have, when others have even less. Implies an attitude of social justice, distributive, which increases the humanism of the person. It's a touch of this lopsided world where some have much and others none. Where one comes to the table of the poor that falls from the rich, after having taken this its own resources. It's a way to claim that distributive justice: This is what you get, and for all ...
The third is strength, rejecting speculation, marketing and deceit. The merchants, moneychangers, are driven from the temple he had been referring to become a den of thieves. This is now palpable outrage. The crisis has caused these merchants, moneychangers these speculators that we ruin them filling their pockets with money, making the system a den of thieves. Unfortunately we have no guts to take the whip, to shake them and throw them in our lives. Our politicians do not fall short of the circumstances and are driven by their interests instead of the people they represent, yielding to the blackmail of the money, leave them in the temple handle everything.
I'm not a believer, but go through a seminar, or perhaps for that reason, I reiterate that rejection of suffering as a way of life and praise the approach that leads to happiness from freedom, from personal development of each, creating and plotting ways of interaction, so that everything is summation and clarification in the evolutionary process of society and human beings in the first instance, therefore I am much closer to the three cases I mentioned that the ritual paraphernalia and trapping in the sufferings that are offered in religions. Therefore, I decide for one, prefer that walked on the sea, which fed and who drove the merchants from the temple. Which sought the betterment and happiness of its people ... maybe that's why they crucified him, and crucify him now, or continue to crucify on a daily basis ... if we do not look around us and we will see the Pharisees, the Romans and Judas ... I think it goes without being identified, but it sounds like a religion, power and banking ...
merchants in the temple, I remember Paul Casimir Cardinal Marcinkus and his dalliances with the finances of the Vatican, the Mafia and foreign businesses that ended with the bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano and its CEO, Roberto Calvi, hanging under a bridge in London (see http://es.wikipedia .org / wiki / Banco_Ambrosiano ). In all this there is a certain and large dose of cynicism, talking about helping the poor while playing in the evil world of finance and state. Then what better for them to put us in the club and masochistic sufferers, leading to the submission and conformity.
Today, April 25 is celebrated Feast of St. Mark, patron of my people, Cuevas de San Marcos. I want to allude to this legend and include a final comment by way of participation in this day, I can not stay in the village at this time.
"Tradition says that at the time of the Reconquista, the devil himself lived in the Cave of Belda, an enclave in which Neolithic remains have been found amid fears of its inhabitants, interpreted as anger that the devil rays and sulfur were showed the cavity. It is said that a group of Christian knights spent the night near the cave, located near the Camino Real then, linking the town Antequera Cordoba Rute, in possession at the time of the Arabs. After a surprise encounter with the devil of all, the soldiers asked for help to Governor Fernando de Antequera, who sent a friar to conjure the evil presence. The priest failed in all his exorcisms, because the devil answered him with all her wiles until the pious monk took the cross and, shouting "this cross I'll tie" tied him to the ground with a plant mage jara , meaning that the devil was defeated and was tied at the foot of the cross. Since then, the town was a haven of peace, so that its inhabitants decided to repeat the gesture every year on the feast of San Marcos. The town of Belda was renamed after the Reconquista by this name because the mountain where the cave is the Arab fortress shaped like a lion, a traditional symbol of the evangelist. "
Bridging the gap to one, from the right, to swallow such a story, this is a legend that adorns the day of the pattern of Cuevas de San Marcos, my hometown. This leads to the tradition of binding the devil in a procession that is held on this date, going from town to the reservoir of Iznajar, where you eat and drink to celebrate the festival. Many people, during the journey, going by the jaramagos knots at the same time he recites a short prayer to exorcise the devil.
This year I have not gone, but I know that my friends and acquaintances now go party and cronyism, so I take my blog to send you a hug and wish to have a good time, without excesses., Tasting and sharing the food they have prepared for the event. Last year I made some pictures. Left a serious and other criticism, to show the diversity of opinion is before the pilgrimage with a little humor ...
on the legend should be framed in the persuasive use religions make these issues and attempt to influence and control any event pagan celebration of spring. The final message is that the spring when the fruit blossoms that gives life, he finds weeds, hedge mustard, which pollute and compromise their good harvest. That ability, typical of religions, they carried with it the wheat symbolizing the bread of life threatened by the arugula, diabolical plant that challenges the crop ... The good and evil struggle. And this symbolism again catch us in that game and his holy religion, everywhere in the evolution of nature and the ecosystem ... Take away therefore the natural role in life to introduce the role of religious belief variable ... Another good reason for reflection.
Easter, for me, has a rancid taste, blending childhood fears, death, martyrdom, suffering, guilt and pain together ... It is a depressing time, where the subject does not feel anything comforted, but guilty of the brutal death he inflicted on Christ, as we have. Small and we were told that he died for our sins and one without knowing why, felt guilty and horrified by that story that did not quite understand. Why the hell I had to pay for the sins of that gentleman and lady who ate an apple? Why did he come the Son of God to kill him the same men who had sin and give them as a reward, therefore, salvation? It was absurd to remove a little sin of all, as was the theft of an apple, a crime was committed with malice murder
time ago ... try to escape from this time, I'm going out to avoid the spectacle of gruesome content, pain, martyrdom and blood, which is displayed in the streets of Andalusia and in Spain, to a greater or lesser extent, with varying degrees of religiosity. A Christ suffering the indignity of a powerful lords who did not know, or wanted, to understand what I said, intended to maintain and sustain the established power system. That kind of praise to the suffering, the exaltation of the suffering and humiliation, that identify with the suffering, the pain ... not to my taste and conviction.
I can hardly understand the feelings of those people who makes their life and activities throughout the year a goal to get his christ his brotherhood. Sure we all need to belong to a group, socially speaking, and this may be a meeting of that particular group. It would be like a club, but instead of playing tennis or golf, there is this other activity. Then your function is no longer religious to become social. Immediately afterwards, one wonders, then, if religion is nothing more than that, a way of bringing together people who need their membership, that identification with a collective and through the management of the group, create a structure, position or social model to uphold the system of power established within that group. Habemus dispute then.
believer and I am not anything arising is influenced by my pure and simple reasoning. I know I can not avoid the schemes that have marked me fire, fears and dictation, when I was little, but I think in the end, the reason was imposed and only believe what I gather, what I see as possible and, of deny anything about what you do not have solid enough argument, I can give overtones of probability, however remote, certain things that my reason given for possible under my inability to understand or my limited knowledge. Do not believe what we touted by religion, but do not deny that there may be a higher energy body condition rules, regulations and laws governing the world, but in any case not be equated us, but could form part of an energy which we are involved and subject to its laws. In this case, knowledge is the way to make this possible truth, science tool, the vehicle that transports us to that end. If you want to call it God, which I find much to call, then I have my doubts about the existence of that god.
Anyway, this week chose to move and travel. We went to Carrión de los Condes with my friends Paul and Marisa. From there we visited Medina de Rioseco, charming town of Valladolid, with its arcaded streets and churches, filled with English roots. Urueña, or the Villa of the book, walled and the charm of its streets transport you to times past, not very far away there is a Romanesque chapel where the environment takes you to merge with nature, listening to the gentle breeze from the leaves of the trees stirred emotions and feelings of inner peace. Wamba, where he was crowned the Visigoth king Wamba in 672, after the death of Recesvinto in the same place. The story of Wamba, senior, did not end well at all. In this village, I was surprised at his church, the place was crowned Wamba, Romanesque, Mudejar combines space, with its horseshoe arches, and Gothic. As curiosity is a charnel house filled with human bones, skulls, femurs, tibias, etc. stacked, giving similar to "Capela of the Bones "in Évora, Portugal. In Valladolid we met my friend Conchi of Horrocks, who made us act as a guide and visit the city, splendid, as always, with its streets, squares and avenues.
Aguilar de Campo was the other target. Already knew, but Donino and his wife joined us on a tour that took us to the monastery of Santa María la Real and visited the streets and squares. The coffee we took in Santa Maria de Mave, a former monastery converted into guest quarters.
As annoying curiosity, are you alluding to characters streets of the old regime, crosses of the fallen, yokes and arrows phalanx, in the strange cult of the old regime Franco At this point, protected by the rulers of an autonomous community of imperial tradition and home to the Falange. This brings me to the reflection of the great difference between the European right and the English right. The first is the daughter of the antifascist struggle against Nazism and ours is the daughter of the same fascism that survived the Second World War. That explains a lot in our national politics.
not be so hard to leave for my next post the continuation of this story or reflection. Meanwhile you can watch some pictures. I Wamba and Valladolid missing because I ran out of battery.
I titled this entry in this way by trying to share that, I think, with those who visit my blog. As I will not write more until after Easter, I have allowed to abuse a little with this comprehensive text. Obviously do not pick up all the corollary of my ideas and reasons for lack of space, but this "microarray", which continues to be challenging for reading, is the exposure of a summary of my view of the situation. I do not know whether you will be able to reach the final. If you arrive I congratulate you, and if not, nothing happens. At the end of the day I wrote it for clarification. I think writing, writing me clarify. I let the ideas flow freely, driven by reason of my logic, based on my background of life, and got no objections to anything, let alone devise thought to share with my friends. You know: "A friend is someone with whom you can think out loud ..." and continues to be your friend, of course.
In view of my previous post, I think it would be more useful to clarify my ideas and position on the holistic human being, especially considering my near vision perception systemic life. That is, all part of a macro that consists of different levels of system and subsystems that make up the whole.
try to explain more specifically. Each of us can, themselves, as a system, itself made up of subsystems, from the standpoint of functional and physiological. But also, we are part of other systems of higher order. We are integrated into a comprehensive nuclear family in a neighboring community, a municipality, a group of friends at a company in the nation in a state, in a number of other systems that would not exist if not for the interaction of elements in it.
From the standpoint of social and political, are also subject to this dynamic interaction. Let us focus on the social focus, organizational or political. The human being, as I argued and argued in the past, has a basic objective, which is the improvement and perpetuation of the species, without entering into disquisitions otherwise, because the subject is to long and I avoid as a matter of time and space, that is, its development and evolution over who would lead the way to go. Each, in its interior, is the bearer of a message by assuming, in a very unique and individual, the reproductive and developmental the species. Thus, selfishness could be an engine to defend or justify this idea of \u200b\u200bevolution, a guarantor of survival, since the first function would be to sustain and preserve the body, which serves as a support or continent of the mind, intelligence and capabilities cognitive make the subject a being capable of facing the development process holistically. Therefore, we are dual beings in this regard. On the one hand would our body and the other our ability, intelligence, mind, psyche, or as we call it fancy, but always speak of a higher order question that differs from the material and tangible, from the dimension of spirituality or rational knowledge
things ...
But man alone can not carry out that function. Needs of others. There is a hermaphrodite, you need to nourish, defend against aggression and protect, requires others to achieve their key objectives ... From here the three basic instincts of nutrition, socialization and play. Nourish your body involves providing everything needed to survive, stay alive, and facilitate the chronological development of his person and mind, so it will be necessary to drink, eat, breathe, eliminate waste, etc. It is also necessary to associate with others to establish an organization to defend against attacks allowed of other species and groups of their own, to build and develop tools and appliances, housing and infrastructure, ie, you need to socialize, to integrate into a society with its laws and regulations that allow a relatively quiet life and to engage in partnership Personal and social development. Of course, if there is no transcendence, if we do not relay, the species disappears, so we have to reproduce, and here is the key to another instinct, such as reproduction and sexuality as a means to do so.
Now, we are presented with the dilemma of how to organize or try to meet these three needs: Nourishing, partner and reproduce. In most species have established some forms, rules and laws that allows them to endure. In the case of humans as well. Another thing would be to question whether these that we found, are appropriate for the purposes I described. But clearly we need a system of coexistence can facilitate this evolution and development.
The first social conflict or confrontation should arise from a discussion of whether the block, which is in the tree we're collecting, it was me or you. In the end it took more force had and learned things by force, you can get without working, especially when alone with the threat, intimidation the other to do what we want. Also had to learn that if another and you need something you can talk with him on business plan, but also means you have a power over him to subdue him. If you do what you say, do not you give him what he needs and if this is a basic necessity of survival, you are guaranteed your submission and will have no chance to raise their intellectual quality, since they must focus all their energy to achieving assets that cover the basic survival needs ... That sounds a little, because throughout history, have been controlled if the resources and knowledge, the subject is controlled by hunger, the need and manipulation of knowledge.
I think, and I am not an anthropologist, states must arise from a social group setting, an intragroup imposition of the strongest over the weakest, making them see that it was important to work for the group and were allowed to protect and manage for the controls, which were admirable, to the point of being sometimes identified with gods incarnate in them. I conclude that states do not arise primarily to protect humans, but as a form of organization to take advantage of for the benefit of the powerful who run them. And, frankly, it seems that man, along history, has not changed much in their basic motivations, except to the greater ability to manipulate and make use relationship.
The main problem that occurs in humans, in my humble and uneducated opinion would be to get the nutrients to your body, which Herzberg called sanitize the situation to go to play and apply the real motivation to bring him integral development, once basic needs are met. Every effort would be focused on this need, because if there is no living body, no human being to move forward, and there is no possibility of mental evolution. Therefore, the first thing is to ensure the existence and then comes else. The smart, powerful, always knew that controlling these nutrients had controlled the people, if they employed in those duties, not evolve to higher demands and challenge their power.
Finally, create intergroup conflicts, international wars loot and plunder, power to the other submissive producers, taxpayers benefit of the king and his immediate servers, which make up the functional structure of the system, read army ideologues, religious, hierarchical classes, etc. was a way of promoting fear, paranoia and alienation between the peoples of the public to further brutalized more.
And now I come and say that shit, I laugh of nations and states designed for these purposes, they should only make sense as part of a larger system, where synergies are to come together for a development of all human beings would not need an army, since the philosophy of life did not arise from the paranoia, mistrust and confrontation, but from the cooperation and the meeting.
Once again, I become delusional. But I like the idea, I like to think that one day human beings are able to see clearly where our true interests, and where they are those of others, those who want, from greed, avarice and selfishness, continue with the idea of \u200b\u200bconfrontation and exploitation of others to enrich themselves.
therefore advocate a global supra-state that puts human beings on the subject, will precede the BE TAKEN, directed by brave people who are not afraid to knowledge of others, get involved in the goals the human collective, which pacified and coordinate the flows of both money and knowledge and culture so that we all benefit and not a few.
But this how it fits? Not me who to give lessons to anyone, but to present my ideas and in this sense, I believe in the taxonomic levels in the hierarchical structure of competences, at different levels of involvement of humans based on where they are, who live together and your interests local or proximal, within the general.
Clarifying: I participate with my neighbors in my community management, and no one else, the citizens of my city participated in the election of the mayor, and nobody else, residents in Andalucía vote our self-government and anyone else , the central government chose him among all the English and anyone else, the European (but not too much content) we choose the set of European citizens of the EU, and thus, in this hierarchical structure we are going. Note that stopped me in Europe because there is no longer superior being democratically elected to represent us. The result is that each country defends its interests without being subject to greater weight criteria, although it seems otherwise. It would be logical that the representation of the UN was democratically elected by all citizens in the world, makes decisions that affect everyone, and take binding decisions of government. But it is an instrument in the hands of the most powerful nations that manipulate and direct at will and benefit.
So who better than the person to make decisions that affect their immediate environment or to its level of involvement in a larger system? The problem or conflict when they fill with content, competencies, authorities have to make decisions. What is responsible to the State, the Community, the City ...
If we defend democracy, popular sovereignty, above all else and give the subject the prominence it deserves, as determined, colleagues, we deduce that is sovereign, master of his vote, to determine what best suits you, within a convivial order. Thus a greater autonomy ability to exercise that sovereignty, but without forgetting its involvement in other organizational levels, even universal, which require responsibility and commitment. But if the aim is to have a strong, centralized, with subjects to serve the decisions they make a few from the epicenter, there is no need for autonomy and decentralization, one is nothing to decide, we are not sovereign, but submissive subjects abide from their incompetence, what they say the Founding Fathers.
This is the dilemma that we have at this time. Centralist vision "for the Empire to God" that underlies minds yearning for bygone anachronistic continuously in the recent history of national Catholicism, against a modern, sovereign state as servant of the people understood, as a unifying element and catalyst of that popular sovereignty, protected by decentralizing responsibility and solidarity. States are not held together by force and imposition, it has been so far, where the conquest and war, the agreements between feudal lords, etc. were marking the boundaries that framed his subjects, but by the sovereign will of the people, by the attitudes and behaviors that benefit everyone. I ask then: "A state is all the lands which fall within its borders, or rather is composed of people who live there? "In any case, what is more important? For me, undoubtedly, people, human beings who are above the spurious interests of the powerful or power groups.
And this how it is resolved? It is extremely difficult to modify an existing structure like. It is difficult as the class interests and were forged and these structures, policies and administrative, were created to defend and consolidate. A setting from the perversion, from injustice, war, theft, looting, and the imposition rascals, do not change easily, because no one leaves their power to lower levels of influence for his holy will. These systems are supported by the culture that was established, over time, in the villages. The principles and values, socially accepted norms and behaviors, heroes and myths, are the guarantor of the continuity, solidity approaches sheltered by religious, political and social, behavioral modeling that will form the subject through the process of socialization, established since a long time.
However, as is well known, the world is dynamic, changing and modifying to suit new situations, new scenarios, which determine a new situation from the standpoint of political, social and economic development. The question would be how he'll adapt and who benefits from it. This dynamic process is constant. It's like a platform that the system homeostatic set to absorb change, integrating them into the same, under the idea cyclical and not structural. But the news should not always be absorbed without trauma, without structural changes. Quite the contrary. Major changes require structural changes that redefine the modes of interaction of the system.
However, structural changes may be planned or forced by circumstances hauled in a process of adaptation to the environment. In any case always directed to the benefit of the actors or drivers them. Logically, who can make the changes are those in the "power" directly or indirectly, that is, those with the capacity to provoke.
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been crucial in these changes, both technological change as awareness of the classes in Europe and America, mostly. The industrial revolution and Marxism were two turning points in both directions described, technology and class struggle, without forgetting other milestones such as the French Revolution and the independence of EE. UU. There was thus a clear attempt to internationalize the demands of the working class, creating the international socialist and communist anthem himself alluded to this idea. Their failure or neutralization has been evident, because capitalism has imposed its line and has demonized, assisted by the managers of so-called socialist countries, the spirit of this internationalization. The market has been the universal idea of \u200b\u200bequality. Instead of working to improve it, replacing it have been destroyed by the alienation of mass consumption, differing just for workers, another emerging middle class pancha sofa and half with their material needs met, even with the creation of a welfare state that traps us. Emerges, then, the selfishness that fog holistic view and close borders, returning to create insurmountable barriers for people in the third world, which he continues to steal their resources by governments traitors to their people, who sold the system in the exercise of dictatorial power that subjects its people poor and miserable to facilitate the rich, good value, the raw material.
The funny thing is that once the international scene removed the lower social classes, has gone on the attack. The market has established its international group creating its power through economic control of the situation. Globalization has been instrumental in allowing them to travel on a track without supranational control, except your own, read IMF (International Monetary Fund), the risk rating agencies, international banks, multinationals, clubs and gatherings of the wealthy who hide behind racks, manipulation of the media that create and modulate subjects at will and especially the control of politics, and politicians who practice it, by purchasing and submission of the same, apart from some others who also ensure the path of success.
All this is covered by so-called democratic constitutions, but they only have it's called free choice, and as and how. The rest is not democratic, they are not subject to social welfare and material goods are produced, but that protect private property as opposed to general interests. Not preserved and the will power of popular sovereignty over other interests and are still subject to state ambitions, or minority group, the vast majority of citizens.
So What's the tirade in which we find ourselves? From my point of view, globalization is unstoppable, so it is necessary to attack it from the justice and public interest and not the few. We can not, given the situation, avoid economic flows taking place towards the developing countries, is neither appropriate nor desirable. China produces a very low price and traders sold at market prices in Europe. Who earns more, those who produce or trade? Obviously those who trade. Multinational corporations more than anyone, regardless of the strike that generated in Western countries. They are behind the benefits not the spirit of development of their own country.
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an example. Suppose we have a reservoir of 1000 cubic meter of water containing 500. Next door is another of the same dimensions but containing 50 cubic meters only. In both maintain an inflow that is filling, that is still occurring wealth, but at different rates. Now connect with communicating vessels. It is evident that the water will tend to go first to second to catch up with it. However, liberalization of markets has produced this phenomenon, which in my point of view is not bad as it will, in essence, to balance global economies. The trouble is that the communication pipe and valves have been controlled by a few detours to get the water they want at another tank, or refer to their pockets taking it to another store itself. This would be the gains that this trade makes the purchase price of developing country production and sell in developed countries prices in those markets. Are ready, fucking.
course now comes the fear. The Chinese will own the world in decades. What should be asked is that the Chinese live like the rest of the civilized world in a few decades, but what happens is that companies with interests in China will be the masters of the world soon, it will have grown and donated money to baskets with this system, while the Chinese, Indians, etc. have been the architects of this economic growth without receiving the benefits they are entitled, as it will be subtracted the unequal distribution of benefits by the company.
Well, this globalization enhances the interests of capital and goes directly against the interests of citizens, of all human beings. Seeks an unfettered free market and fastenings, from a neoliberal conception in which the self-regulating market itself, while governments can not get a word in these regulatory standards or, in any case would be the big states that these rules define according to their interests. Are the instruments of the new empire, the new world order that was planned some time at the tables of neoconservatives and free market advocates. Socialism is frowned upon, the traditional left has lost its way and has been under the system, the idea of \u200b\u200bsolidarity and justice has been trampled and manipulated, it has made a human being who is happy with consumerism and market integration, but does not think his personal self.
So Who defends the real interests of ordinary people? No one except the citizens themselves. Therefore it is necessary to unite, develop joint strategies to assert the prominence and prevalence of the person on the market, the sovereign people over the interests of powerful groups. We have seen how it has saved the bank and plunged into misery to millions of human beings. In recent years there have been 200 million poor and have considerably increased the number of billionaires.
Therefore, organizations should break boundaries, leaving the myopia of the political parties of local content and engage in an international project to consider the common interest and to defend them. Let us not be deceived by siren songs that long for the past, what was my country, what I did, to not let me be, but we must be from this point where we are. If we are not savvy meanders us bent. They, meanwhile, will boost the confrontation of peoples, intergroup conflict, to split forces. Divide and conquer is their motto, we to play their game ... or not ... it depends on how we see things, if we are capable of putting one's ideas and developing critical of the view coming to a real analysis that we can understand and manage to combat looming interest. So I defend the game, not clash with those who have my same ideas and my own interests in the development of life and human. So I think you have to integrate forces and not disperse.
ago, long time, I've been concerned about not wrecking me and destroy my world. My world is to be a world of meeting, sharing, not competing, to add and not subtract, centrifugal and centripetal not expansive and not withdrawn, where people are and see that, at bottom, all are equal, but our fate puts us in different places and they prove a benefit for life more than others. A world where man and nature live together in peace and know in steady progress ...
But the essence of humanity, of humanism in itself, is in getting rid of conditions and understand like, on the other, from equality, as we all naked, while the clothes were placed after us, in our environment. Each with its limitations and capabilities, is part of a package comprising the great society which is humanity. The boundaries were putting to us from selfishness or interest group power, to grow the group in competition with others, to take advantage of others in this growth and to block and control the relationship between members of two groups.
No, I do not support borders. No, I do not want the conflict, war and plunder. No, do not believe in the benefit of the disagreements, I believe more in the benefit of the meetings and the amounts of synergies. Maybe it's a dupe, but I like to talk about cultural encounters, to transfer and enrich each other, in short, to share to keep growing. Therefore I am not segregated or separatist, but rather the convergence inclusions to the dispersion of the forces defending the human being, to the best interests of aggression that colluded to profit from the segregation of peoples.
But ... What's all this, this kind of public confession? It comes to me I'm sick of want to manipulate, that I want to face with others to protect foreign interests do not coincide with mine. Exclusive ideologies can not stand, nor the tax, I do not like people who misses the centrality and the dictators, those who hate or reject the freedom of others to submit themselves, like sheep, to the dictates of patriotic saviors, renouncing their own ideas, your free thought, and carried away by the vague and subject to change to have resolved their basic material needs, safety slavishly obedient subject.
not stand the villager who locks himself in his plot and loses sight of the rest, except to negotiate for their own benefit, the short-sighted or myopic vision that has lost the universal to locate in their small field. No, we are the world and the world we should. If you do not consider ourselves world citizens will be dynamited, let everything not to be defenders of all, to let it be vampires destroyed at will, leaving us homeless, landless, planet, while they take refuge in strong to survive the cataclysm.
So I like the concept inclusion, universality, humanism and, again, to share. Therefore, we usually do, and I power games among friends and acquaintances, where each brings something to share with others, according to their abilities.
Interestingly, every year we have been conducting a meeting in the shadow of a gastronomic and cultural event that does not respond to the essence of Andalusia, but the Catalan idiosyncrasies. Today we claim as a confluence or instrument. Why this and not another? Perhaps because it is one of the most necessary. It is planting a misunderstanding with Catalonia by foreign interests that are beyond my understanding and comprehension.
I want, with this act, symbolizing the meeting of different cultures and peoples, between disparate people, distinct and different, which seeks to live and projected on the universality of the human being, enriching complementary with that diversity, with their languages, habits, customs and cultures open to the meeting and the merger benefits all. A calçotada in Andalusia, paired with different wines from other regions of Spain, is a good incentive to see and enjoy the good and varied that it gives us from this multifaceted country.
calçots This year has been grown in the garden of José Ginés (we have introduced the variable of Chinese garlic, an interesting development, but without second thoughts, given the thrust of the Asian colossus, so that should not be awarded to us the decision to buy English public debt by from Beijing, hehehe ...), the sauce made by Loli, as always excellent, the product of a recipe from our friends Mike and Magda de L'Hospitalet, the branches of my vine, wine polytopic (various locations), otherwise product of the people, my Andalusian patio.
Results: An excellent time in the company, enjoying the friendship and sharing dishes, conversation, jokes and games ... in short, healthy, joy ... From here I invite you to participate in that spirit ... do you sign? What gives him a calçotada to think ...!
"Paris is worth a Mass" (Paris joins well VAuto messe).
the death of Henry III of France, in 1589, there is a war of succession between Henry of Navarre, the legitimate heir, but Huguenot (Calvinist) confessed and de facto, and the Catholic League of France, supported by Philip II Spain. Because Henry failed to take Paris, defended by the troops of Alexander Farnese, and the only way to reach the French king was converted to Catholicism, in an act of political realism and agreeing to the terms of the King of Spain, gave the step on July 25, 1593, when it is credited with the famous phrase: "Paris is worth a Mass" (Paris joins well VAuto messe), reigned as Henry IV.
I say this as an introduction to the story of our visit (my wife and me) to Paris last March. For if there is any doubt on that assertion, it clears only discover the city. It is true that Henry chose the kingdom of France and we just visited Paris for the first time, but still, is perfectly understandable that so much beauty I clouded up the thinking and ideas, unless I enter examine questions of faith and religion.
In our case we wanted to just celebrate our 37 wedding anniversary with the delicacy of the visit to the French capital que no conocíamos. Acertada decisión, que seguro apoyan todo el que conozca la ciudad.
Nos ubicamos en el Hotel Champ de Mars, en la calle del mismo nombre y muy cerquita de Ecole Militaire, en el distrito 7, al pie casi de la Torre Eiffel y junto a la calle Cler, peatonal, típica, con sus puestos en la calle, cafeterías, pastiserías, queserías, etc… al lado, Los inválidos, con la tumba de Napoleón, pero, tranquilos, que el sujeto anda bien encerrado…
Al final decidimos coger el bus turístico para dos días y pulular the places where, strategically, he stops, as were
1 .- Eiffel Tower. Awesome work, as you know, which is worth up (no lift, of course) to see the spectacle of Paris from above (276 meters). It was built for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and very nearly demolished ... that what the French would have been lost!
2 .- Champ de Mars. Gardens ranging from the tower itself to the Ecole Militaire, where cadets were riding school. In this school became Lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte.
3 .- Louvre Museum. It is worth a week to leave this alone, but alternating with other visitors to not saturate. Just visit the section devoted to ancient Egyptian, Oriental, Etruscan and Roman and logic visit to the Mona Lisa and minions. Impressive building and contents.
4 .- The Ile de la Cite. With the Holy Chapel and stunning stained glass, Notre Dame and all its glory, along with roads, bridges and architecture of the center of Paris.
5 .- Musée d'Orsay. Introduced in la Vieja D'Orsay railway station, recovered for this Menestheus if muestra splendid rebosante works of art in painting, sculpture, decorative art, photography, etc.. Painters like Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cézanne, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Jean-Francois Millet, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and a very large number of reconocimiento universal. Valga redundancy impress me he French Impressionism. In the hall he dejo reflejo of the cafeteria, with cool technology and sustainable view on it, that the food hacían an act that more enjoyable.
6 .- Opera. We could only see the facade that was scaffolding for maintenance work. Failed to visit the "Galeries Lafayette" by passing for a demonstration area, so we visited only La Madeleine is a Catholic church of neoclassical architecture, which reminded me, with its columns, a Roman temple. Beautiful view from there of the Place de la Concorde and the National Assembly in the background.
7 .- The Arc de Triomphe. In whose look did not see the city of Cadiz and conquered by Napoleon, hehehe ... We climbed the 284 steps to see the perspective from above and realized that age does not forgive. The breathtaking view. Twelve avenues leading to Paris. Defense threatening to substance with its skyscrapers, as held out of town to avoid breaking its structure, as if the idea of \u200b\u200bfuture development and was suspended in the Paris outskirts to respect the classic loaded with beauty. Skyscrapers envious look intimidating from the outside, not daring to disturb the peace and beauty that radiates the city. Perhaps the Eiffel Tower, with its tall bully, they also intimidate them in the defense of Paris XIX.
8 .- The Grand Palais and the Petit Palais, just across the Pont Alexandre monumental III, all built for him Expo 1900. The Petit is the Museum of the City of Paris, the Fine Arts. Little time to much to see. The building, in itself, it is a work of art that blurs in some cases, the works exhibited.
9 .- Trocadero. Impressive for its spaciousness, gardens and views of the illuminated Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars Avenue between its legs. People, many people, more people ...
We can not forget the Champs Elysees, the Place de la Concorde, where they were guillotined King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette with its Egyptian obelisk from the Temple of Luxor, and the gardens of the Tuileries, Place Vendome with the monument to Napoleon, the Invalides, Louis XIV impressive building to house the wounded and maimed of their wars, where lie the remains of Napoleon , and a wide etc. is found only with walking and kick streets, plazas and gardens.
Montmartre and the district of painters. Excellent views of Paris from the Esplanade of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, full of people watching the display of skills in dance, juggling, etc. of spontaneous actors. The beautiful temple, but vigilant for anyone doing photos. It seems incredible to be reached so that the camera retains far as the eye could not, without knowing what benefit they take, except that people will buy a postcard instead of taking the photo. After a coffee in the Place du Tertre ", or the painters of them working full portraits or caricatures of customers, with its exhibition of works by inviting a souvenir of Paris. Nice and quiet area to walk bohemian seeing Abbesses street stalls, down to Blanch Lepic alongside Le Moulin Rouge, take the subway and go to sleep.
A stroll along the Seine. Being or not, can not be an anniversary forgiving experience boating on the Seine. The problem was the persistent rain, although not intense, who accompanied us throughout the tour. Night from the river, with all the illuminated monumental buildings that line the shores, is an indelible image. In the end, around the Eiffel tower gave us a spectacular and complementary set of lights that turned in a sizzling flash that ran the whole structure. Can be seen every hour in the first five minutes.
As supplementary question can say it is an expensive city for tourists, with a commuter train, RER, that connects to the radial zone and a fairly complete metro network. Although not very colorful and presentable, both on trains and in stations. Beware of pickpockets! If you can see well without knowing the language, although it is preferable to master something French or English.
I think there's a cheaper way to visit, such as renting an apartment for two or three couples and cook and live there for about ten days. In order to share this experience you have some photos, selected from the 700 I did a couple Slides, if you like to see them.
