Martin Fierro, rock and country sleepwalking (159) May 22, 2010
Find the path of our national history in this bicentennial, it means learning to read in the footsteps of our contradictions. The so-called law of contradiction, is a landmark for all those who try to start in the basic philosophical issues. According to him, a proposition and its negation can not both be true at the same time and in the same direction. Traditional philosophy, in their founding statements moves in a sea of \u200b\u200bplatitudes and evidence. The reality, however, will show the face of paradox.
We are a country that has historically celebrated the anniversary of the genocide of our ancestors. Unbelievable. No Frenchman, whom he liked many of our patriots like him, celebrated the arrival of Julius Caesar to Gaul. But we do. We are so pluralistic. We have, for example, a magnificent monument Roca, general racist and genocidal few. Someone may think, and rightly, that this means no contradiction that we are simply at the old logic of the story written by the winners, and ultimately the matrix of our national history is Eurocentric, look at his master with admiration. This is true. However, our pages are filled with authentic national contradictions. Chivilcoy, without going any further, has a space dedicated to indigenous peoples. Many times those who discourse on aboriginal rights, are the same as on October 12 carried the wreath at the monument of Christopher Columbus. Vanes "ideological?," Schizophrenia? "Distraction? The contradictions in our history seem to have escaped from a story by Kafka.
There is a particularly powerful as an idea, which I think is indicative of something that happens, our fervor for the Martin Fierro by the glorification of those who were their persecutors. We proclaim our love for the story of a gaucho who spends much of his life as an illegal immigrant, exiled, living with the Indians, and almost in unison exalt the call that wiped out civilization as India crossed his way and scorned the gaucho as a dark icon of barbarism. Roca, in addition to the "feat" to kill Indians, open the domain of large estates with distribution of 41 million hectares to 1843 landowners. President of the Rural Society will be given no less than 2,500,000 acres. Cute baby to a monument. Hernández Arregui
encouraged us to rethink and redefine our culture from its origins, denouncing the mystification of a self-proclaimed progressive intellectualism crossed himself before the crimes of the so-called civilization: "At school he was taught to prefer immigrants to native in national association that foreign capital is civilization at the University that the Constitution has made the greatness of the nation or the country's political instability is recurrent or montonera the softness of the Creole. This state of mind, subtly encouraged by the upper classes allied to imperialism distorts the consciousness of these groups, whose skepticism about the country favors the passive spiritual subjugation. "
For Arregui, Martin Fierro expresses the consciousness of a social class subjugated and displaced by the very culture whose values \u200b\u200bBorges part for trial. Borges not only hates to Martin Fierro, after all, a literary ghost but everything that has the flavor of gaucho. Valen
positions. It is always good to choose, at the risk of making mistakes. Contradictions are also valid. They talk about our limits, we get naked, break down rigidity break sterile dogmatism, humanize us. The contradictions are used when we change, and operate on us true transformation, putting us at the crossroads of choice. Sartre said that a free life is a peculiar metaphysical experience. At least it's an unusual solution to complicated problems and challenges of human existence.
But when the contradiction becomes chronic and is naturalized, it ceases to challenge us. Tranza Then we started with it, to live comfortably divided, placed in a culture of anything goes. A speech here, a plaque there, and a long way down and lost ... the claim is impossible to build collective identities installed in the culture of schizophrenia.
Is it possible that they live in a paradise of rock harmonies with the gaucho Fierro? Why strange reason we ended up seeing each of them symbolizes and represents models diametrically opposed, irreconcilable antagonisms? What logic enables us to think that the brutality and blood if a suit founded civilized country? Why is it so difficult to condemn the genocide and Western patriotic? What situations of our present reissued, renewed, these old stories? What exactly is the slogan of the bicentennial that intends to make a home of brothers and for all? "Brothers among whom and for Why? "Lie that the country belongs to all who were born in it, said the Mexican Librado Rivera. Belongs to a small minority of land grabbers and the riches of the soil. Belongs to the landowners, merchants and bankers. " History will always
territory disputes, confrontations, fighting continued. It is simply so. Like it or not. The trap is denied. The damaging and disturbing is that often thoughtless tiling visits the classrooms of our schools, live speeches, or fill pages talking about a nonexistent country, with an aseptic and supposed neutrality is emetic. In life you have to choose, change location, defined. Martin Fierro never primed a mate to Roca.
The country is bliss, pain and heaven to all and no feud or chaplaincy, said
José Martí. A country for all is not to deny the contradictions, pulling the dirt under the carpet, or making statements left and right pretty. It is necessary to confront, discuss, and ultimately that is the true meaning of politics. There is a sleepwalker
country. Her eyes are open but asleep. For fear of the nightmare has resigned to dream and walk guided by a story that never gets lost wake.
We know, until the lions have their own historians, tales of hunting will glorify the hunter. And there will always be a teacher distracted boleada, or cynical, managing to praise the gaucho while handing out flowers to his murderers.
