.
Our parents said it was the fault of television. Because life was not so, as it looked, and because we are distracted from what really mattered, they said, seated, smoking something, while the children, who were the victims, of course, "playing in the yard or in part, as the conversation ended, and went back to being alone and you thought then what it was to blame ... what it was that we had done, and why ...
Then you grew and sometimes went elsewhere and heard people talk about other culprits: the dictatorship, the CIA, or even Coca-Cola, which had a secret ingredient that controlled the minds of consumers ...
- Does it really make that coca-cola? "I thought.
"Sure, I answered an old man who worked in a church, this drink has an ingredient that makes us forget how important, or we do not want to discover ...
I then gave it back to those words, and commented with another adult and the contradicted this, and I spoke to the real culprits were the disaffected, the people who could not recognize that a good work is the answer to all our important questions we have about the right way to live, and interact with others ...
"That's why you have to study to be a professional, and not stand there wandering and then arguing against the government because you did not have opportunities ... and throwing stones ...
"But then ..." trying to understand one.
- but then nothing! Blame it on the mediocrity, and that life will give it to you made! "I chided other. We must study and look for work and be proud of who we are ...
- How "of who we are? "Asked one.
- De what we have ...! "I replied and closed the conversation. And life went on.
The trouble is that the guilty are kept repeating over and over again, and while one probably knew that there was no absolute truth about what the fault was as unquestionable, and one actually spent feeling victimized, and sense that was something you did not understand the fault of others, did not care who it was that other, "and that distressed at times.
I, for example, believed that the adults of my childhood included things I never manage to understand because of the guilty. And read his books and listened to their conversations, and I felt wrong when one of those "big" for me interested in these issues, I talked about things I do not understand:
"Do not listen to others," he said one, the fault lies with them ... because they believe that God has solutions for the things they do not know how to solve ... and guilty for believing in them ... because they are comfortable ...
"The fault lies with those who do not believe in God," said another, those who believe that man is sufficient to themselves and think they are superior and try to support themselves ...
-the fault of beauty pageants, "she said, then an aunt, and all these girls that they forget that no tits were made to show the whole world ...
And of course, could continue because the list of culprits was really wide and went even as those you had never expected: the Russians, Walt Disney, hippies, rock music, the mini skirt, football, Christ, unemployment, natural disasters, the rich, the poor, the Pope, Hitler ... and a bunch of other agents who were apparently to blame for our failure to understand ... that our generation lacked and that without realizing it, have resulted in the generation that came simply changing the guilty, but stop and think again, what is the specific charge of them accused.
And is that while today and do not blame the television, turn to blame game consoles, to computers, consumerism, violence disproportionate to the wars, the economic interests of multinationals ... but always avoiding to see what our role in all this, or what, ultimately, those things are to blame.
is, at what we know is wrong, and before that we see wrong in others, we like our parents and our grandparents, and perhaps many more, "the excuse that frees us of all guilt, or allow us to share at least, not to confess that we never understand something see our children, or the new young, increasingly alienated.
- are lazy! Then we cried.
- Insensitive!
- do not know what life is!
But unfortunately, and this much we know, "I think that is something that we also know ... and they have not merely followed the wrong route ... we got along
Should we go back, then ...? Give up the work, studies and separated completely from the fanaticism of the football team often encouraging ...? Should we burn the city, or pharmacies, or universities ...?
Honestly, many of these possible solutions that seem absurd and meaningless, I'm attracted to in a way that others might call unhealthy, or antisocial ...
clearly complicated I admit, being professional, and father, and being in the same way those who want a certain way, or are obliged to follow ...
Today
thought that as we crossed a large group of students, an abandoned tunnel in an area on the outskirts of Santiago. I went ahead and the kids came in the middle and behind other professionals, totally in the dark, crying and frightened among them ... a Pied Piper leading the children to get lost in the mountains not knowing where we were going, or what we could find ...
But of course, in the end we came out, and we all were, and the world was just as we left ... almost. Not that the world is bad, or anything like that ... nor do I want to talk more about guilty ... I just see in the darkness a little light that tells us where is the road, and that light touch and enjoy ... and feel the other out of each tunnel, and every day, and every text.
(ie other than me, more different light. And then there is only light and I disappear.)
Then you grew and sometimes went elsewhere and heard people talk about other culprits: the dictatorship, the CIA, or even Coca-Cola, which had a secret ingredient that controlled the minds of consumers ...
- Does it really make that coca-cola? "I thought.
"Sure, I answered an old man who worked in a church, this drink has an ingredient that makes us forget how important, or we do not want to discover ...
I then gave it back to those words, and commented with another adult and the contradicted this, and I spoke to the real culprits were the disaffected, the people who could not recognize that a good work is the answer to all our important questions we have about the right way to live, and interact with others ...
"That's why you have to study to be a professional, and not stand there wandering and then arguing against the government because you did not have opportunities ... and throwing stones ...
"But then ..." trying to understand one.
- but then nothing! Blame it on the mediocrity, and that life will give it to you made! "I chided other. We must study and look for work and be proud of who we are ...
- How "of who we are? "Asked one.
- De what we have ...! "I replied and closed the conversation. And life went on.
The trouble is that the guilty are kept repeating over and over again, and while one probably knew that there was no absolute truth about what the fault was as unquestionable, and one actually spent feeling victimized, and sense that was something you did not understand the fault of others, did not care who it was that other, "and that distressed at times.
I, for example, believed that the adults of my childhood included things I never manage to understand because of the guilty. And read his books and listened to their conversations, and I felt wrong when one of those "big" for me interested in these issues, I talked about things I do not understand:
"Do not listen to others," he said one, the fault lies with them ... because they believe that God has solutions for the things they do not know how to solve ... and guilty for believing in them ... because they are comfortable ...
"The fault lies with those who do not believe in God," said another, those who believe that man is sufficient to themselves and think they are superior and try to support themselves ...
-the fault of beauty pageants, "she said, then an aunt, and all these girls that they forget that no tits were made to show the whole world ...
And of course, could continue because the list of culprits was really wide and went even as those you had never expected: the Russians, Walt Disney, hippies, rock music, the mini skirt, football, Christ, unemployment, natural disasters, the rich, the poor, the Pope, Hitler ... and a bunch of other agents who were apparently to blame for our failure to understand ... that our generation lacked and that without realizing it, have resulted in the generation that came simply changing the guilty, but stop and think again, what is the specific charge of them accused.
And is that while today and do not blame the television, turn to blame game consoles, to computers, consumerism, violence disproportionate to the wars, the economic interests of multinationals ... but always avoiding to see what our role in all this, or what, ultimately, those things are to blame.
is, at what we know is wrong, and before that we see wrong in others, we like our parents and our grandparents, and perhaps many more, "the excuse that frees us of all guilt, or allow us to share at least, not to confess that we never understand something see our children, or the new young, increasingly alienated.
- are lazy! Then we cried.
- Insensitive!
- do not know what life is!
But unfortunately, and this much we know, "I think that is something that we also know ... and they have not merely followed the wrong route ... we got along
Should we go back, then ...? Give up the work, studies and separated completely from the fanaticism of the football team often encouraging ...? Should we burn the city, or pharmacies, or universities ...?
Honestly, many of these possible solutions that seem absurd and meaningless, I'm attracted to in a way that others might call unhealthy, or antisocial ...
clearly complicated I admit, being professional, and father, and being in the same way those who want a certain way, or are obliged to follow ...
Today
thought that as we crossed a large group of students, an abandoned tunnel in an area on the outskirts of Santiago. I went ahead and the kids came in the middle and behind other professionals, totally in the dark, crying and frightened among them ... a Pied Piper leading the children to get lost in the mountains not knowing where we were going, or what we could find ...
But of course, in the end we came out, and we all were, and the world was just as we left ... almost. Not that the world is bad, or anything like that ... nor do I want to talk more about guilty ... I just see in the darkness a little light that tells us where is the road, and that light touch and enjoy ... and feel the other out of each tunnel, and every day, and every text.
(ie other than me, more different light. And then there is only light and I disappear.)
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