I feel uncomfortable answering this type of question, because the people chooses are always from a same
category. They would have a intensive education, wealth, cultural capital,
privileges, etc. Presidents, politicians, military, artists, and other etc. I
think that if want to know the best of the “cultural spirit” of Chile; we have
to look in other place. We need to review that other place without a own name,
there where the shape of something knowed it’s not clear, but in one or other
form, we know about it. If I have to think in people that place in the stage of
the best Chileans, I think in first place in whose that died probably without a
name in his grave, bleeding because the injustice that is part of the blood of
this country. The fallen ones from Santa María school, in Iquique, and all the
miners and they family’s that lays under the ground in common graves, with
bullets in their bodies that were tear apart in name of the order and the
progress, just like the banner of Brazil. They and other people at our history,
like the indigenous peoples from the invasion and conquest of the Spanish, the
peasants that were dressed like soldiers for fight for one or other chiefman ,
like O’higgins in the Independence War or Baquedano in the Pacific War. The “Chaucha
revolution” was an example from a collective anger, and “No More” feel. Those
that had the voice, the bravery, the will to do something against the order,
those that put they screams and in the air, fulfilling it with their hard words
and fists, they deserve the honour of the persistence of the time, the achievement
of the transcendence. They were bleeding for us, for our injustice, and for
chance to do something about that. I just would ask them about what its worth
at the end of all, their names, their stories. I would ask them for forgiveness.
I think you've made a good point. The greatest Chilean could be a lot of "ordinary people" who may be dead or alive.It is all about the context really. Nice post
ReplyDeleteremember the fallen ones, remember the forgotten ones. It's a nice aproach to this task <3
ReplyDeleteoh! that is a nice point of view, I think all of us have to start to think the world in that way.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter the number, what it matters is that those things happened and we cant let them to be repeated
ReplyDeleteI really liked your post and I agree with you completely. To me, often people who are "great" have had the means to stand where they stand. Often is because they where great at something, but there are so many others we don't know.
ReplyDeleteI think we must built another geometries of power. At the end of the way, always is a problem of power and subordination. The anger is only a face of the problem and the negation of the social problem is functional at the actual form of society and his power.
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