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Willy Brandt

A biography that would be worth exploring is that of Willy Brandt, West German chancellor from 1969 to 1974 and Nobel Peace Prize in 1971.

In 1970, on a trip to Poland, he knelt before the monument to the victims of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. An act of reconciliation between two nations, after the most appalling event of the century. Here

su promesa ante dicho monumento:

"No action of mine will be so cruel that a future leader will need to fall on his knees in shame for the history of his countrymen. I will not give consent to injustice, or inhumanities by staying silently by and looking the other way. This pledge I take to all humanity, and to all that is sacred to me.

With this pledge I make my knee fall to ask forgiveness for the atrocities done in my name, or by me. History will not be repeated through my actions, or my silence. The buck stops here. Let Us bridge the gap."

Después participó también en la elaboración de un reporte sobre desarrollo y en la negociación for the release of hostages in Iraq.

His prayer / pledge makes me think of "representation" of the rulers. That is, we know that government emanates from the popular representation, or acting on our behalf. I had never noticed the fact that the government is acting on my behalf. Today I do, I feel ashamed.

Before whom I kneel down to apologize for the omissions of our governments?

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more eggs, 68 on public transport

This is an excerpt of what I wanted to say ... and no longer said.

"The '68 was much more than on 2 October. It was a year that dazzled the world and caught the political and social changes. It was a year when forged a spirit of innovation, embodied in a youth ready not only to dream but to turn their dreams into reality. A step up and face the consequences of their ideals.

events that occurred in France, Prague, the U.S. and elsewhere, including our country, were a reflection of that spirit. From different fronts, the struggle for peace, racial equality, freedom of expression and justice, represented a society willing to speak out, to require not to be satisfied.

In Mexico, the '68 was in sight promising for our country by being the first Latin American nation to host an Olympics. Unfortunately, today, remember him as a year of celebration. On the other hand, refers to scenes of violence, sadness and anger.

After 40 years, we are forced to rethink and reflect, not only about what happened in that year, but on its consequences. On the relationship between government and citizens. On the participation of society in government decisions. About our national identity. On accountability.
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memory forces us to resume a debate about the country went on the country we are and we want to be. "

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Another thing I find very hypocritical in my peers is the perception of public transport.

In our city, do not know anyone who prefers transport public convenience and selfishness of the car.

However, when we left Mexico, study or pleasure, we commend the transportation systems in other cities. It seems cool to travel with strangers and even the smell makes us curious and not contempt. We do not mind walking 5 or 6 blocks to get to our destinations, and although rain neve or wait patiently in the community.

not pretend ignore the fact that our transportation system is critical failures. The discomfort, the uncertainty of the times, the bad treatment of drivers, insecurity and the distances Homer make this not an option but a madness.

However, I am convinced that, as citizens, we have forgotten to make our public services better. Once we have sufficient purchasing power, we decided to privatize our transportation through the car. We decided not worth talking to Locatel and report to a driver, comfort matters most to the pollution they generate. We forget that, ultimately, the traffic is also a collective action problem.

So starting today, even from Tuesday to Friday choose not settle. And all drivers will report to fool. I will make an effort not to take my wallet when squeezed. And mine will be a less polluting car, causing traffic and forgetting that for all of us to do something, however insignificant and not noticeable.

And I know nobody cares, but me. But in this blog I am God. And here is what God wants published.

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Slajov Leo Zizek interview transcribed on the blog writing Letras Libres.

This man, as we know, is too elaborate to a mind like mine puberty. But it says something that echoes in my mind for quite some time.

says, referring to 68, in Prague:

"What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? Do not let us save the myth that without the intervention of the Soviets, had flourished a genuine democratic socialism? "

and 89, in Tiananmen:

"Imagine that the Communists in power yield to the demands of the protesters. It's very sad, but if the Tiananmen demonstrators had been successful, if the Communist Party can truly democratic and other reforms, would likely have been chaos in China. No, I'm not saying that we must choose dictators or that the iron fist is the only solution. just saying let us comforting illusions. "

and continues on the left in general:

"I think we left today, too often falls into that game. I think that's why they like to lose." ... "That is, since this is implicitly regards the title of my talk, this comfortable position of strength: do not mess with the power, that is the motto of the contemporary left. Do not play the game power, Power corrupts. Resist, resist, withdraw and resist from a comfortable moral position. I find this very sad. "

And I find profoundly true. And, like him, just sad.

I get the feeling that the left in Mexico and elsewhere, wallows in moral superiority based on the failure. So his greatest moments was based on what could be and not what it was. Why it was so difficult for the great intellectuals of the left assume that real socialism had left that moral utopia. So today, underestimates the British third way. So in Mexico, 68 have that nostalgic aura of fantasy do not quite like it.

Unfortunately, I find echoes the words of Zizek in the alternative for which I voted in 2006. Do not play this game of power, because power corrupts. Here, in Prague and in China, and Rome. Today and 40 years, and makes 400. Because the complaint is simpler and the resistance there is no way to lose. O was lost because the other cheated. Or the world was not ready for changes. Or policy not deserve because we are too neat for her.

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October 2, 2008

calendar dates Few seem so hypocritical as 2 October.

Leo, in many of my IM contacts, the traditional "do not forget," "never forget", "October 2, do not forget" and other platitudes that awareness and political correctness prevent bypass.

And it is not necessary to make statements in the nick of messenger to know that people are not forgotten. Or rather, by the age of my contacts, do not imagine or reconstruct the October 2, 1968. In television, radio, newspapers, no one forgets. Although poc @ s understand what can not (should?) Forget. Is

repression? I do not think because of that we had more examples, and none of them want us to remember.

"social mobilization? Nor, I see it everyday and no one put in your nick: Do not forget the 400 villages, or teachers, or a-who-are-you-go. Does the student? Either, because we do not boast 1986 and 1999.

I'd like to imagine the capacity for 68 youth to break into the political arena. As the ability to remove the entrails of social pacts that underpin the country. Since the ability to dissent, to convince, to convene. And that's something no one we like to remember. Starting with me, I prefer to watch television rather than attend the neighborhood council to improve my own building.

Today, all are accounts of repression. Sadism guilty to look at photographs of what it was. Imaginations and collective memories of what could be.

Is that the best legacy of the 68 was the grief? Ever feel that you can not do anything? Is the idea that it is better to stay at home to leave the square? Does the resignation mediocre for others to do what gives us roe do?

Somewhere, Susan Sontag said that the report must be accompanied by action. He might not say it and I made it up, but I like to think so. And the action does not see it anywhere.

So we might as well not remember. Or at least, do not boast much of our memory. Memory socket. A memory of voyeur. Only masturbates to look through the bolt, but dares not enter.