"TO ALL WHO WILL DO THE CENTURY, WE SAY WITH AFFECTION: BUILDING IS RESIST, RESIST IS TO CREATE " all have reason to be outraged, but almost nobody does . I just read an book by a gentleman of 93 years, entitled precisely Indignaos! , a peaceful invitation to insurrection, to stretch, to rebel against a world in which citizens are not the protagonists of the story, but merely invited to pay the party. The author is Stéphane Hessel, a venerable old man of keen mind, he joined the Resistance in London, was arrested by the Gestapo and was saved from certain death in Buchenwald to change his identity by another inmate. After the war, became a diplomat, was part of the writing team after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, then served as ambassador in France at the UN and later was an advocate of the Palestinian cause. So who made the allegation against indifference is a character who has the moral authority of the type have been played a few times. Reading
Hessel, feel like screaming in the middle of the agora . True, we are treated as if the crisis would have caused us as if we were to blame for the current drift. But the worst part is that those who do, are precisely those that did not foresee what would happen, who denied the obvious and not taking corrective action. Are the same people who cheered stretch the arm sleeve, to spend as patriotic act. Says another nonagenarian scholar and José Luis Sampedro in his foreword: "Currently in Europe and beyond, the financial crisis undisputed guilty, have already saved the corner and continue their lives as no great loss. Instead, their victims have not recovered the jobs or income level ". Hessel note: The power of money was never as big, brash and selfish, since his servants to the highest echelons of the state. Banks privatized care first of their dividends and the soaring salaries of their leaders, but not of general interest.
The book invites us to be outraged because of the outrage born commitment. A rebel to save the democratic achievements based on ethical values. Claims no violence, on the contrary, the author believes that the force of reason is the resounding answer to both liar. It is a question of not accepting the explanations of those who failed to give them at the time, is not to pay the bill who spent our money. Some might say that the allegation of Hessel is a toast to the sun, but the hundreds of thousands of copies have sold show that his speech has not fallen on deaf ears.
estultez In times of such policy, so much audacity of finance, so much emptiness of culture we will always be outraged. To change the world or to make the finger in time.
Text: Marius Carol (La Vanguardia Sunday, March 13)
English translation of the text offered by: Eurotopia: http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/eurotopia/2011/2/28 /-indignaos-# c2310376
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