(179) Friday October 8, 2010
Bill Gates said: "What if you had told Columbus, Chris, baby, do not go now, wait to solve major problems first: the war poverty and crime, pollution and disease, racial hatred ... "
Within days of the anniversary of the conquest, pillage and plunder of America we want to put a shortcut reflective and think about some features of our culture that we have been as a result of that settlement which still continues.
Europeanization was the conviction that forced America to not be American. To give up its roots and destiny. Capitalism is born in 1492 in our Western life nestled in the form of looting. We, as periphery, are the condition of possibility of the center. And the center is vertigo, speed, hurry because time is money. The center moves around the gold around it made continuous movements. Travel to the periphery and loot, to carry the school as stolen. There remains a time making the industrial revolution and then a second time back to the suburbs with their capital to establish a new dominance. So the center has no time to lose. There is much to conquer, to accumulate. Such political movement imposed a culture of restlessness, trouble status, speed.
It is no coincidence that hallucinatory vertigo which characterizes the Western capitalist cities. Culture of speed, the immediacy. Time valued not as a gift of life but as a commodity. Nobody has time. We even fear of wasting time. We live in a hurry. The reality conceived as flash involves a fragmentation of time perpetual present series of mind requires constant jumps from one thing to another. This creates a feeling of rootlessness, isolation and confinement. In this worldview the past is blurred, indeed, he denies it or puts it in question. The future does not wait too long. Rather, it causes anxiety to be unknown and different from what was expected of him. This not only has a choice with all your office immediately.
vertigo with its implacable laws and has become a way of life. His absence is synonymous with worthlessness, lack of productivity. We fight for our bit of vertigo to be recognized as someone who achieves everything it sets. Dostoyevsky says that when a person is venturing on the path of vertigo, "is as if sledding from the top of a mountain covered with snow is growing fast."
The paradox of the matter is that you can understand the haste of one who seeks to accumulate and master, but it is illogical to the plight of those who by fate's role is plundered and dominated. This is precisely the trap. The speed does not let us think, compels us to move. So living in this fast-paced world a trench in Guantanamo with a luxury hotel-cap Japan, isolated ranches of indigenous peoples that are disappearing, with hotel chains or territorial spaces snatches Benetton luxurious holiday clubs mixed with refugee camps. Vertigo ignores the values \u200b\u200bbecause the only value ends up being him. A world given to solitary individuality, to the fleeting and ephemeral, the spectacle of neon. Lost individual and social. And shelter is not looking for peace, but lost in the turmoil. What everyone does not warn that the speed is so acclaimed is just a way of escaping. Seneca said that "Those who are in a maze confuses the same speed." If the center
historically come to the periphery and rushes to that by creating this culture, reproducing the same logic, rapid eats the slow.
To our native people was very different thing. The time was cyclical, surrounded us, renewing, as the air we breathe. But in the worldview of the settlers came to us time is a line, a finite resource is depleted, leaves, and then produces anxiety and trouble. Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term "time sickness" to describe the obsessive belief that the time away, not available in sufficient quantity, is exhausted and then you have to pedal faster and faster to keep pace.
Too bad nobody told Cris before casting off way to America: "No go now, there's no rush. " What a shame if we ended up waking up in so many ways of lies imposed and do not begin to expel from our lives to those who still seek to colonize.
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