No se indignen - EN

WE DON’T NEED LAND

22/01/13

WE DON’T NEED LAND

-Take, my love, my hand -I can get up alone (I called you while I was falling) Rachel Finn Losing a loved one unexpectedly is the hardest thing for the soul to bear – it’s such a blow that it doesn’t even hurt. It’s a blow that amputates people for the rest of their lives. From people that have recently been through war, from their faces, from their silence – even from the way they express their joys and sorrows, the strength of these blows can be felt. War is the worst misfortune for society, but contrary to violence – inseparable from the existence of matter, war is a creation of man; it is perishable like all his creations and, therefore, avoidable. I think that two or three countries will make an agreement soon and there will be peace in the world – it will be a transitional peace, heading towards another period of wars or towards a different humanity. Whether these two or three countries in whose hands it is to stop the wars make a decision sooner or later may depend largely on the attitude adopted by the activists and voluntary workers in the world – an ever-more influential and numerous group. *(1) These citizens will have to invest their thinking, which is logical but inefficient because it is

disperse, and try to eliminate the effect so that the causes can disappear. If they prevent war (the effect), there will be equality of men and women, all the world’s children will go to school, everyone will have access to medical aid, and dignity in the workplace, forests and oceans will be saved ...and there will be an end to hunger (causes).

Close your associations, NGOs... abandon your individual causes and focus on a common goal: an end to war... In the short term, the effects will be negative but each group will only achieve its individual goal if it firsts agrees to give it up for a common one. We have to end war – the horror, the suffering of each member of a victim’s family – whichever side they are on – is the same. But while we are discussing ways to reach peace agreements, deaths are continuing; progress on paper won’t give life back to those who have died on the way, and our existence and that of our loved ones is still in danger. Even knowing that the others might be right too, we have to accept that fate dealt us this goalpost and we have to defend it. Those who have promised to delete it from the face of the Earth should know that, even if they keep their word today, in many centuries’ time, when nations have different names and other borders, and speak different languages, Israel will still be - even if it is not. Israel has never needed to exist to be because it was before it had a State.

Israel has not been since 1948 nor is it thanks to Hitler, Israel already was before them. And

before Theodor Herzl and before the Holy Inquisition. Before Moses, and long before the first kings of Egypt, Israel already was. Israel doesn’t need a territory because it was Israel before it had one – it can afford to lose it again; nor does it need life to stay alive, because Israel is an attitude that lives in the memory of people. Let us fight for our lands with our lives, although we may lose both, but let us not lose ourselves in the memory of those who will come after us, because then Israel will finally have stopped being. We are due to what we were and it doesn’t matter if we stop existing because we will keep being. Israel doesn’t need to exist to be present – it is what it is because of what it was, and

even if it stops existing, it will keep being. Israel is spirit, even if it loses all its lands, even if they raze everything to the ground between Jordan and the Mediterranean... while there is still just one Jew, Israel will exist. And if those who want to delete it from the face of the Earth manage to eliminate all the Jews in the world, then Israel will definitely never disappear. Israel is Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and Nazareth, and all its cities and towns, but each of them individually and Israel itself are today because Masada once existed. Nothing stronger or longer-lasting remains of our loved ones than the memory that they leave us – let us also leave a memory and Israel, even if it is not, will live forever. "C: You were lucky! F: Luck, luck. C: Did you think about what you were going to say? F: Oh, no! I thought I was going to die like a man. I’d already lived through the Barcelona bombing, and I know that you should never say anything. You have to put up with it and die. Because what if you survive and you remember you were a shit? These things happen" *(2) Spain, 02 January 2013 *(3) Sarah Sofía Sánchez Piaf *(1) The financial prosperity of many countries from 1950 onwards created a Welfare State, the most obvious social consequence of which is the large-scale breakdown of the traditional family. Every day more and more members of these broken families dedicate their free-time and even their lives to noble causes which mitigate the feeling that they have been uprooted. *(2) " La libertad tiene un precio. Conversaciones César Vidal y Federico Jiménez Losantos" (2012 PLAZA JANES-RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORI, SA) *(3) Filming started on “1980” documentary by director, Iñaki Arteta.

AND WHAT IF THE PROBLEM IS

ONE MAN, ONE VOTE?

2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SPECIAL

FROM THE EDITOR

There was a resurgence in the publishing of pamphlets in

Europe in 2011 due to the commercial success of “The

Outraged”, a manifesto containing inflammatory socio-

economic proposals for dealing with the so-called Milky

Crash*

The pro-anarchic approach of Stéphane Hessel’s text gave

rise to the publishing of hundreds of booklets, covering a

wide range of political beliefs, before the November 20th

(20-N) presidential elections in Spain that same year. None

of them, even remotely, enjoyed the same success as the

original.

One of those texts was “Don’t Let It Get To You” – now

available to readers in the United States thanks to the

interest shown in it by Montana-ABC Inc. We decided to

publish it in October and sincerely believe that we were not

mistaken in our decision; only 12 months have passed since

then yet “Don’t Let It Get To You” is one of few out of the

many titles that we had the pleasure of reading, whose

message is still valid.

We hope it will remain so for many years.

Spain, September eleventh 2012

One hundredth anniversary of the birth of Teodoro Palacios Cueto.

To Queen Leonor of Spain.

*Economic recession originating at the end of the 19th

century, incubating during the 20th, and becoming public in

2007 due to the collapse of some of the big Investment Banking

companies. It is still weighing down the economies of most of

the industrial countries in the world today – 5 years later.

USA PUBLISHER

IT’S DEMOCRACY, IDIOTS!

Last year, I read a slogan from the Wall Street “Outraged”

which I found interesting: “WE’RE THE BEST-TRAINED

GENERATION”.

The system is certainly not working when so many youths

with university studies are out of work or working under

uncertain circumstances. Perhaps it means that “advantages

for everyone” turn into none for anyone; a few generations

ago, going to university was a luxury that could only be

afforded by a few; now all young people have studied, hold

a Masters, speak languages, have a good command of new

technology...

Information is power but what happens when we all have

all the information?

Internet, WikiLeaks...it seems that the moment of change is

here: information is within everyone’s reach, knowledge

(power) is in the hands of the citizens.

How should we now manage this knowledge? How can we

avoid confusion?

How can we explain to one of Obama’s voters that calling

one of Romney’s followers a fascist or Nazi is a

contradiction? How should we explain that fascism is

Italian National Socialism, and was created by Mussolini?

Or that a Nazi is a member of Hitler’s German National

Socialist Party?

How should we explain to that citizen that World War II

began when two socialists – Hitler and Stalin – agreed to

invade Poland and divide it between themselves?

And how can we explain that, in spite of all that, socialism

was a beautiful idea ("beauty flows from the impossibility of

it” Ura Perelman, Essays from home) with Christian roots?

How can we avoid confusion? How can we avoid being

manipulated?

Politicians are usually counseled by the most qualified

specialists of each nation but they find themselves having to

lie to us because they need our votes. Nonetheless, Romney

and Obama don’t need our votes...

What if they joined teams to work together for our country?

We could consider that maybe the system is outdated, re-

think democracy so that it can evolve, eliminate the one

man, one vote idea – this might be a way to allow us, the

people, to keep the power...until we need to re-think it all

again.

"Real revolutions are not those which change the world but

those that make it possible for the world to continue on just

as it was on the first day; nothing new has ever remained –

everything has come and gone, but our instincts, our

beliefs, our traditions... the games we always play - they

will outlive us. Who invented the ball?" (Ura Perelman,

Essays from home).

P.S. Rein, 2012

Montana-ABC, Inc.

EXPLANATORY NOTES FOR UNITED STATES

READERS

FRANCO. Francisco Franco Bahamonde (1892-1975).

Member of the Spanish military, whose army successfully

put an end to five centuries of civil war in Spain.

GONZALEZ. Felipe Gonzalez Marquez. Last Prime

Minister (1982-1996) during “The Transition”. Felipe

Gonzalez is, without doubt, one of the great statesmen of

Spanish history.

*"The Transition" was the period of 21 years from the death

of Franco up to the acceptance of Spain as a modern

country in international mentality.

For those 21 years, “Spain’s Five Men” worked side by

side, leaving their ideological differences aside, with the

sole aim of consolidating democracy in the country once

and for all. HRH King Juan Carlos I and Manuel Fraga

Iribarne (1922-2012) in the interim; and Adolfo Suarez,

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926-2008) and Felipe Gonzalez

taking consecutive charge as Prime Minister.

AZNAR. Jose Maria Alfredo Aznar Lopez. The first Prime

Minister of Spain (1996-2004) after “The Transition”. The

economic policies implemented during his mandates

showed the most positive results since the colonization of

America.

ZAPATERO. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Prime

Minister of Spain (2004-2011). He was probably stopped

from carrying out his ambitious Social Reform project by

the economic recession.

RAJOY. Mariano Rajoy Brey. Current Prime Minister of

Spain (2011- ). According to the opinion polls, he was

the favorite to win in 2004 but the predicted outcome

changed due to the 11-M bombings (which are still a

controversial subject as responsibility for the attacks has not

been fully clarified) just three days before the elections, and

Zapatero became Prime Minister instead.

Rajoy has been Prime Minister with absolute majority since

20-N, 2011.

RUBALCABA. Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Current Leader

of the Opposition. He lost the elections to Rajoy in 2011.

He gave great service to Spain under Zapatero’s and

Gonzalez’s governments. One of the best-qualified

politicians on the current European circuit.

ESPERANZA AGUIRRE. Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de

Biedma. Current President of the Community of Madrid

(2003- ). A minister in Aznar’s government. She was the

first and, so far, only woman to be Head of the Senate. She

was the first regional congresswoman to be elected in

Spanish history.

MERKEL. Angela Dorothea Merkel. Current German

Chancellor (2005- ).

SARKOZY. Nicolas Paul Stephane Sarkozy de Nagy-

Bocsa. French Prime Minister (2007-2012). In May 2012,

he lost the elections to Hollande.

BOTIN. Emilio Botin-Sanz de Sautuola Garcia de los Rios.

President of the Banco Santander.

REAL MADRID FC. Spanish soccer club – no. 1 in the

European ranking. 9 Champions League Cups.

BARCELONA FC. Spanish soccer club – no. 6 in the

European ranking. 4 Champions League Cups.

AT. MADRID SAD. Spanish soccer club. In 1975, they

became the 2nd Spanish team to win the Intercontinental

Cup.

MOURINHO. Jose Mario dos Santos Mourinho Felix

(Portugal). Current Real Madrid FC trainer. The best soccer

trainer of the 21st century to date.

GUTI. Jose Maria Gutierrez Hernandez. Former Spanish

player for Real Madrid FC. One of the most highly-skilled

players of all times as regards technique. His attitude and

insolence on the playing-field earned him a bad name with

many fans.

KUN AGUERO. Sergio Leonel Aguero del Castillo

(Argentina). Former player for Atletico de Madrid,

currently playing for Manchester City. His wife,

GIANNINA, is the daughter of former player, Diego

Armando Maradona.

Campers in Sol. “Outraged” citizens demonstrating for

their demands and about their grievances in the public area

of the Puerta del Sol (Madrid).

BORGES. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges (1899-

1986). Argentine writer.

LA CAIXA. One of the three largest Spanish banks.

PROLOGUE:

I was a mammal...

...there was grandeur in the arts and sciences but trout got

the power again a few cycles after all that i arrived the

coliseum was full of eager trout be strong Father said to me

you will get your position back but if not die in the act as he

said goodbye he gave me some olives the trout heard my

exposition they cheered silently and condemned me by vote

several trout managed to overpower me but i was able to

hide the olives they moved me my window looked out over

the unit for businessmen and sportsmen a contact gave me

information for the escape i succeeded i walked the

countryside the third night i smelt the sweat but i couldn’t

get in fertile it was inaccessible and i left the place with the

hidden olives after several interminable cycles i reached the

Mother Valley in a few lines the reader begins to feel he

can begin the story again reading it again and again adding

bits but without changing the beginning or the end the result

is what the reader can become and when what he adds to

the text prevents any turning back from discovering the

ending it will be time for his biggest discovery he will

know if it is this is a mammal detection test in Mother

Valley there are many birds singing harmonies and the

sky...the watchers cannot come near the Valley in order not

to interrupt the milk production there is no turning back i

leave you this olive i said to a receiver i have to reach the

other destinations you will get a signal and it will be your

moment at your next exhibition the trout will cheer when

they go to overcome you and take you out of the coliseum

you should look at the upper vomitorium of the north stand

a trout with glassy eyes run towards her if you keep to a

straight line they will not be able to stop you reach her put

this olive into her mouth all the eyes in the coliseum will

turn glassy then the milking machines will be taken down

and fertile they will be free and they will come here by then

Mother Valley will be ready remember straight line they

will not be able to stop you go back now reader to the

beginning read to here again or if you prefer you can

continue to the end twice on the third reading you can add

subplots do not change the beginning or the end and when

you cannot sleep and you face the impossibility of turning

back from discovering the ending stare at your right nipple

until you blink six times in other words until the sixth blink

then the Great Mothers warm armpit will begin to produce

hair hair a lot of hair and it will raise her arm up until she

cannot put it down due to the amount of healthy hair

accumulated go back now reader to the first line and begin

to read until you get your olive but do it now do not read to

the end if you have read this far and you do not remember

what was in the sky of the Valley go back to the beginning

if you remember go on to the end and when you get here

again in the next reading repeat the process and go back or

continue depending on whether you remember if the

doorbell rings do not open it keep reading time and time

again the olive will arrive as you sleep when you awake

you will see it beside you on your pillow or perhaps at the

foot of the bed lost between the sheets your olive has to be

there if you do not begin to read again thank you forget it

all after each reading forget it all before beginning to read

again now the reader can continue reading or give up and

go back to the beginning these lines don’t add up perhaps if

you need them you are not a mammal there was grandeur in

the arts and sciences but trout regained the power it will all

collapse again when joint responsibility was requested from

the elected along with their electors a few cycles later again

trout regained control of the situation and then there was

total confinement of entrepreneurs and sportsmen

imprisoned in production units for beautiful ideas fertile

women deported to centres where they extracted their milk

which was sent to the head trout to feed their young but one

discovery changed everything it was not the milk it was the

sweat then the smuggled goods gave hope to the imprisoned

mammals thank you...Thank you. Thank you...

(Anonymous)

Don't let it get to you!

Sarah Sofía Sánchez Piaf Prologue by

Albert Einstein

Epilogue

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

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whatever happens, without blaming anyone

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A plea on behalf of all of those who, whatever

happens, without blaming anyone else for their

misfortunes… will keep getting up early and fighting

for those close to them for the rest of their lives.

Prologue by

Albert Einstein

Epilogue

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)


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Intro photo (todocolección.net, ref 20611168)

Albert Einstein texts (The World As I See It, Albert Einstein - Open

Road Integrated Media)

Alberto Fernández interview (Spanish press: El País-20.07.11)

Isidro Fainé (Spanish press: Actualidad Económica, Dec 2010)

... it has a clear spring,

the girl that drinks from it

will be married within the year

PROLOGUE

Letter from Einstein to Freud

Dear Professor Freud,

It is admirable the way the longing to perceive the truth has

overcome every other desire in you. You have shown with

irresistible clearness how inseparably the combative and

destructive instincts are bound up with the amative and

vital ones in the human psyche. At the same time a deep

yearning for that great consummation, the internal and

external liberation of mankind from war, shines out from

the ruthless logic of your expositions. This has been the

declared aim of all those who have been honored as moral

and spiritual leaders beyond the limits of their own time

and country without exception, from Jesus Christ to Goethe

and Kant. Is it not significant that such men have been

universally accepted as leaders, in spite of the fact that

their efforts to mould the course of human affairs were

attended with but small success?

I am convinced that the great men - those whose

achievements, even though in a restricted sphere, set them

above their fellows - are animated to an overwhelming

extent by the same ideals. But they have little influence on

the course of political events. It almost looks as if this

domain, on which the fate of nations depends, had

inevitably to be given over to violence and irresponsibility.

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly

to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be

regarded as representatives of the best elements, morally

and intellectually, in their respective nations. The

intellectual elite have no direct influence on the history of

nations in these days; their lack of cohesion prevents them

from taking a direct part in the solution of contemporary

problems. Don't you think that a change might be brought

about in this respect by a free association of people whose

work and achievements up to date constitute a guarantee of

their ability and purity of aim? This international

association...

If an intellectual association of standing, such as I have

described, could be formed, it would no doubt have to try

to mobilize the religious organizations for the fight against

war.

Finally, I believe that an association formed of persons

such as I have described, each highly esteemed in his own

line, would be just the thing to give valuable moral support

to those elements in the League of Nations which are really

working for the great object for which that institution

exists.

I had rather put these proposals to you than to anyone else

in the world, because you are least of all men the dupe of

your desires and because your critical judgment is

supported by a most earnest sense of responsibility.

Signed: Albert Einstein

When Einstein wrote this letter, the world was already a

mess and the politicians were to blame. However, neither

Zapatero nor Rajoy had been born yet. Neither had Obama

nor Merkel nor Sarkoszy, nor Rubal - not even Esperanza

Aguirre.

Nor Emilio Botin nor Mourinho nor Bin Laden.

Benedict XVI was only 4 or 5 years old.

Today's problems existed 10,000 years ago and they will

exist in 10,000 years' time, and no matter who is in

government, there will always be wars, and rich and poor,

and clever people and stupid people, and the beautiful ones

and the ugly ones. Politicians must be asked to fight

against injustice, but we cannot demand that they eradicate

it, in the same way that we cannot demand that biologists

find a potion for eternal youth.

Perhaps some of those camping in the Plaza del Sol (15-M,

20-N) will soon make a living as politicians and, from their

seats in Congress, will have the chance to put their

petitions into practice. Years after his noble and well-

intended letter to Freud, Einstein also had a chance.

But the grass looks greener on the other side and, when

faced with a real, particular problem, the acclaimed

scientist acted just as any of the politicians he had

previously criticized would have acted, as any of the

outraged in the Plaza del Sol who come to rule our

destinies in Parliament will act, and if the case arose, how

any of us would act standing in the arena with the bull

before us, whatever degree of idealism we pertain to:

“My participation in the production of the atom bomb

consisted in a single act: I signed a letter to President

Roosevelt. This letter stressed the necessity of large scale

experimentation to ascertain the possibility of producing an

atom bomb. I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all

mankind, if these experiments would succeed. But the

probability that the Germans might work on that very

problem with good chance of success prompted me to take

that step.

I did not see any other way out, although I always was a

convinced pacifist. To kill in war time, it seems to me, is

in no ways better than common murder.

Signed: Albert Einstein”

Early to rise or not to rise early, that is the question

Early one morning, a father and his son were walking

towards the field they were working in, when the son saw a

bulging wallet on the ground.

"Look, Dad," he said, as he counted the money, "the early

bird gets the worm!"

"The one who was even earlier lost it," replied the father

This book is dedicated to all those who, whatever happens,

without blaming anyone else for their misfortunes, even

though getting up early is no guarantee that they'll save

their wallets, will keep getting up early and fighting for

those close to them for the rest of their lives.

DON'T LET IT GET TO YOU!

Fight against outrage: option A

At 19 and with €200 in his pocket, Alberto Fernández

(1992, Cullera, Valencia, Spain) decided that it was time to

travel the country. "We weren't very well off," he tells us.

"My brother told me that he was leaving home, my mother

had gone to live in Galicia with her boyfriend and my

father wasn't around." He got on a train with that intention

of traveling around Spain although, he remembers, his

plans changed not long after sitting down in his

compartment. He didn't know then that his urban climbing

skills would turn him into one of the main characters of

one of the most symbolic moments of the 15-M movement.

An amateur photographer captured the scene. Alberto, pure

balance, climbs the wall of a building in the Town Hall

square in Valencia. Hundreds of the outraged cheer him on;

they take photos; one gives him a sign and Alberto covers

the name of the square with it. The new sign, that of the

outraged, which Alberto waves before the lowered gaze of

the office-clerk in the window, says: Fifteenth of May

Square. That was it: the 15-M movement was established

two days before the May regional and city elections.

"The sign thing is nonsense really," explained Alberto a

month and a half later. "I wasn't the only one who put one

up." With his tousled hair and timid gestures, Alberto

makes light of all that. He only hopes that the protest

continues - that people don't get fed up of taking to the

streets. "That's the main problem," he reflects. What he is

sure of, and it's something that he shares his father's views

on, is that "if the parties get involved, then it's all done

for."

He talks freely about politics, about educational reforms

and about certain disbelief surrounding 15-M from those

who have criticized the lack of definition of the outraged or

the camp outs in city squares. "I'm fed up of both parties,"

he declares with reference to PP (Partido Popular - Popular

Party) and PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español -

Spanish Socialist Working Party). "They only know how

to say their names. You ask them anything and they talk

about the party - no personal opinion." "It scares me to

think that we're not getting anywhere." "There are lots of

people who give opinions and criticize but who don’t do

anything about it. It's to do with education... there should

be more time for subjects like Philosophy or Civics at

school."

The trip around Spain was cut short due to pure curiosity.

When he got on the train, Alberto met a guy who knew

some other guys who were managing a small farm in the

Alcoy Mountains and he just had to go and take a look. "I

had a great time," he remembers. "There was a washing-

machine that was powered by cycling and a bread-oven

that ran on energy from solar plates. I walked the animals,

heated water in a big pot..." Alberto remembers spending

the last days there before going down to the protests in

Valencia. "My brother told me about the demonstrations

and I went down without a second thought." After that, it's

all history: the sign, the interviews, the human chains at the

Town Hall, the assemblies, the unions, the consensuses, the

eternal discussions... Alberto moved away from 15-M bit

by bit.

"It all got a bit weird."

Now he spends his time playing Jugger, a German sport:

"It's played on a 7-a-side soccer field," he explains. "The

aim of your fighters is to protect your runners so they can

score. There are six referees and two periods with 100

intervals each," he concludes. He loves being ahead, doing

what no one else is doing yet, challenges, working for what

he wants all the time decisively. When he was small, he

started an association in his town that organized

"historical" talks, he went to high school to try and

graduate, but he didn't manage it. He read Kant and

Huxley. Furthermore, if his Jugger allows it, he'll visit

England with his dad who's a lorry-driver and has recently

returned to the town. If he can, he'll look for J.R.R

Tolkien's grave and try to track down the group Radiohead.

Fight against outrage: Option B

“...when you see your ship go sailing, when you feel

your heart is breaking, hold on tight to your dream”

(Hold on Tight, Electric Light Orchestra, Lynne)

- Rachel Finn (1971-1999) was abandoned by her husband

shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer. Her

unfinished autobiography, Back to Virgin, begins:

"I was born to walk barefoot and I'm going to leave this

place; tomorrow a new brush. And toothpaste. No,

tomorrow it's closed: on Monday. Toothpaste and brush

from the pharmacy.

And underwear, just for me. And for him when he arrives -

he has to arrive. A man who can only be with me: a man

like me..."

- Betty Ann Walters (1955), uneducated, married with two

children, worked as a waitress in Massachusetts when her

brother, after several errors in a crime investigation, was

given a life sentence. Faced with the impossibility of

reopening the case due to lack of money for lawyers, he

tried to commit suicide. Betty asked him to trust in her, that

no matter how long it took, she would get her law degree

and would get him a new trial. 18 years later, the case was

reopened. Betty Anne Walters was on the bench as her

brother's lawyer.

- He earned his first paycheck as an apprentice in a bicycle

shop; he taught his parents how to read and write. As a

youth, he studied at night so that he could go to work

during the day. With time and steadfast determination, he

managed to graduate from high school, go to college, and

become a doctor of Economic Science. Later, he spent

time at Barcelona High School, Navarra University,

Harvard University... Even today, it's still easy to find that

boy from Manresa in his office on a Saturday or Sunday

afternoon. He is 69, his name is Isidro Fainé and he has

been president of the La Caixa bank since 2007.

- Edith Piaf (1915-1963), brought up in a whorehouse in

Paris, an adolescent alcoholic, conquered the main

auditoriums in the world years later:

"I regret nothing, not the good done to me, nor the bad! I

don't care about it/ No, I don't regret it at all, it's paid for,

swept away, forgotten/ I don't give a damn about the past!"

(Non, je ne regrette rien).

-Marie Curie, Beethoven, etc, etc, etc…

An outraged person is always outraged

In their particular careers, Isidro Fainé, Edith Piaf, Rachel

Finn, Marie Curie, Beethoven didn't get off to a very good

start. If they hadn't made it, they all would have had

excuses, but with prolonged effort and personal sacrifice,

they turned adversity into fortune.

Betty Anne Waters could have made up some signs, put up

a tent in front of the Courts and waited for her brother's

case to be reopened. With the help of the media, television,

social networks, etc, she might just have managed it. But

the life of the most important person to her since childhood

was at stake, and she wasn't going to leave it up to the

system. She would be her own system. She had to get

herself ready: study, keep working, look after her

children... Stretch herself to the limit.

Other people don't work like that.

Last July 28th 2011, a huge sign crossed the southern end

of the Vicente Calderon Stadium (home to Atlético de

Madrid soccer team); it said: "Agüero and Gianinna,

Argentina's most expensive bitches" (Gianinna is Agüero's

wife). The Athletic extremists, outraged because their idol

of previous years had signed with another team, sang: "Die

Agüero" throughout the match. But the red and white

supporters were already outraged before Agüero left - the

previous season they were singing "Guti - gay!" The one

before that there was another song, and the one before, and

the one before...

Would this outrage disappear if Atlético de Madrid won

more titles? No. Very similar songs to those being sung at

the Calderón can be heard at the stadium that is home to

Real Madrid - who are considered the best soccer team in

the world. Barcelona has won many titles over the past few

years but these songs are also heard at their stadium. Even

a team that won all the titles every year would suffer the

rage of some fans. An outraged person is always outraged.

The other morning, a couple of newly-weds was having

breakfast in front of me: she had a calm, constant smile -

she looked like an angel. He had a serious air. I thought

that they both loved each other although she was happy and

he wasn't. She was happy with life; she saw things

positively; she would be happy in any situation. He, on the

other hand, seemed annoyed; his character will stop him

from ever being completely happy. His outrage came from

within.

The reason for the camping in Sol square is not

unemployment or the lack of housing, or the cases of

political corruption, or the injustice of the electoral system

for smaller parties... The real underlying reason for this

camping is the need of the campers themselves to camp:

the vital need to meet, to share, to feel that they are

forming part of something. That is why, when the economy

begins to work again, when the votes of the smaller parties

have the same value as those of the bigger ones... they will

still be camping, either because of nuclear energy, or the

famine in some country, the war in another one, global

warming...

If platonic love peeped into each tent in Sol square and

suggested: "let's go and live together forever", the square

would be empty in nearly no time. The main reason for

outrage is a need of love. Or, if he had been happy at home,

would A.F. have taken the train which led him to hang the

May Fifteenth sign in the Town Hall square in Valencia?

"First Function, then Form"

(“First Function, then Form”, 3F's rule, Frank Lloyd

Wright)

Returning offenses 7 times over and favors 7 times over,

there'd be no wars. Nobody would begin an attack knowing

the scale of the response, and doing good would be

rewarded with interest. A simple and effective method,

although primitive. But society has lost perspective - it

happens every now and then, and it might be good to go

back to our origins, to the myth, to learn the essence of

things - because only by knowing something is it possible

to improve it. To break the rules, as Picasso said, you must

first know them.

Back to our origins, as we were saying. When man was

naked and lived in caves, he sought to understand things

through observation and intuition, more or less the same as

now, but without telescopes. That prehistoric seed of

curiosity is the source of the great tree of science that we

have today, the newest leaves of which are our latest steps

in progress. It turns out that everything works more or less

as those men imagined it did: the myths that they used to

explain how things worked turned out to be correct.

However, technological progress hasn't yet made tools to

show whether those myths were correct or not in their

explanation of other questions: we still don't know how the

world was made - the Big Bang theory is simply a

translation from the biblical Genesis to mathematical

language. Neither do we know if there is anything after

death, etc. In my opinion, if those myths got it right as

regards empirical matters, they could also have been pretty

close to the mark in their explanation of these questions.

Myths are closer to reality than science because science has

grown from them; they were the first explanation, the

closest part of the tree to the ground, to the roots, to the

truth. Myth is the base state of science, its true being. So

the source and end of everything, the final truth of things,

can only be understood through them (it is a fact that in all

these centuries of technological progress, there has been no

material progress at all: we know the same about the origin

of the world as we did 20,000 years ago). But I'm

wandering off the subject. We were talking of going back

to our origins, of living simply, not so elaborately. We

were talking of forgetting "mousse of shredded beef" and

going back to a plain steak. Or to a couple of fried eggs.

Many people find it easier to love humanity as a whole

than their own neighbor; however, the neighbor is nearer: it

would be cheaper and easier to love him. As humanity is

made up of all the neighbors in the world, if each of us

worried only about loving our own neighbor, humanity´s

problems would be solved.

This would be the solution...if it wasn't for the fact that it's

impossible to love your neighbor (at least certain

neighbors). But even if it can't be put into practice, it's

good to know the theory.

Following a code of conduct, a group of ideas, makes life

more comfortable. The easier the code, the better. In the

western world, thousands of codes regulate our

relationships: constitutions, treaties, rules, declarations of

rights, of independence... - they all come from the Jewish

people's Ten Commandments.

1. I am the LORD thy God. Thou shall have no

strange gods before Me.

2. Thou shall not take the name of the LORD thy God

in vain.

3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day

4. Honor your father and your mother

5. Thou shall not kill

6. Thou shall not commit adultery

7. Thou shall not steal

8. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy

neighbor

9. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife

10. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods

These Ten Commandments can be summarized in two:

1. I am the LORD thy God. Thou shall have no strange

gods before Me, 2. And thou shall love thy neighbor as

thyself.

Agnostic? Another religion? OK, let's stick with "Thou

shall love thy neighbor as thyself". Simple, comfortable,

easy to live with: like loving your neighbor would be.

Search for truth in all things - let's understand that miracle

diets don't exist and that the only food that doesn't fatten is

the food that stays on your plate. Let's study to learn and

we'll learn that, according to statistics, if you have four and

I have none: then we have two each. But let us be clear that

if it all falls apart, the statistics aren't going to lodge the

two that statistically correspond to us into our bank

accounts.

Let's look inwards, let's imagine, let's understand that we

can live and create without is or wiis (i-, wii); Einstein only

needed a pencil and paper to develop the Theory of

Relativity.

Let's work to get out of this recession - let's work. And let's

work some more. When Newton was asked how he

discovered the Law of Gravity, he answered:

"Just thinking about it."

Let's be good, without going overboard: it's enough if we

always act as if our parents were watching us. And it

doesn't matter if God exists: we need to act as if he does;

everything will go better. But let's not forget to always

search for truth: it will make it easier to find solutions.

Don't worry too much about clothes/your task is as a

sculptor, not a tailor/don't forget that an idea/ is never more

beautiful than when bare.

In a democracy, there is no right or left

"... our Republic was the most advanced in all Europe;

Spain would be one of the top countries in the world today.

Franco set our country back 40 years..."

"... if the Republicans had won, Spain would have become

a satellite for the Communist Block and, nowadays, our

citizens would wander around Europe begging for work..."

"... and we want to know where our dead are: they deserve

a dignified burial..."

"... if you were given a million Euro per capita, you would

give up looking for graves..."

"... construction company bubble - Aznar caused the

recession by backing construction..."

"... Aznar inherited a country in ruins from González and

he delivered the richest and healthiest Spain ever to

Zapatero..."

Talk, talk, talk... Discussions, in every country, for every

reason.

Currently, genetic manipulation generates controversy. In

some specialized clinics, modifications are carried out to

help children to be born free of certain illnesses. It´s

possible that, within a few generations, the rich will be so

genetically different from the poor that they won´t be able

to have children together naturally. Two distinct species

will have been created. But this began long before the

discovery of DNA. Thousands of years ago, a child ate

two apples from different trees: one was better than the

other so he decided to only plant those seeds, and by

selecting what he planted, he condemned the other species

to extinction, and began to put the biodiversity of the

planet at risk. Fruit tree grafting, combining breeds to

create ever more vicious dogs, faster horses, buying and

selling of studs for exorbitant prices... When should we

stop all of this to avoid our current situation? Where's the

limit?

Up to what week can we interrupt a pregnancy if the child

isn't going to be born all right? What degree of disability is

required to determine that the child isn't going to be all

right? If an accident during childbirth provokes this same

degree of disability, could we still end the child's life if we

haven't yet cut the umbilical cord? And if it was only cut a

moment or two ago?

Drugs? Their legalization would put an end to mafias and

death due to adulteration. However, there are those who

preach that, within a few years, a country like Spain would

have 8 or 10 million heroin addicts incapable of going to

work in the mornings. We need some limits. "Yes" to

marijuana, coke and ecstasy but "no" to heroin?

Taxes: Shall we put them up for everyone or only the self-

employed? For the self-employed who earn more than 3 or

only those who earn more than 4?

At our limits, the question is where to establish the limit?

Seeing as society is constantly changing, the limit will has

to change frequently too; the political group who best

establishes the new limit is the one who wins the elections

of the moment. A politician doesn't mind moving the

goalposts a little to the right or a little to the left, as long as

those who benefit from this movement are half of the

electorate - plus one. Pure selfish interest. But thanks to

this interest in pleasing the majority, society improves.

Because when a politician goes by black and white, he/she

is making a big mistake. In a democracy, politicians

depend on citizens in order to continue in their positions,,

so (selfish interest) they forget about lefts and rights and

try to rule in a way that at least half plus one (everyone if

possible) have work and live happily. All politicians want

the best for the majority.

Next 20-N

We've gone too far - it isn't the first time and it won't be the

last. Now a little step backwards, and then we can move

forwards again - life moves in short bursts. When one

generation works less than the one before, it usually

happens; they gave it all to us, we didn't need to do

anything and we relaxed. Need is the mother of progress.

Buying with money that we didn't yet have, going out to

dinner with money that we didn't yet have, traveling with

money that we didn't yet have... but the glass broke:

Milky Crash!! In any case, we'll get out of this one. Sooner

or later. Voting or not voting.

To those who vote next 20-N, I hope you get it right. To

those who don't vote, I wish you a fabulous autumn

Sunday. To those who camp:

1) Always talk, even in private, as if you were being

listened to by the greatest specialist in the world on the

matters you are discussing.

2) Think of Moses and Spartacus also as 15-M-ers. Take

what’s best from them. 3) You can't always consult the people. A car can't have

two wheels.

4) We are not "all the same". We do all deserve the same

respect.

5) You do not have "the right to be what you want", you

have the right to try to be. There might be others who are

better than you at what you want to be.

6) If we destroy what there is, we'll go back to the caves

and begin again...to end up here again. Everything that

happens is necessary.

7) Think about the people who work where you are

camping. They could be your parents getting up early to

work when you were a child to make sure you didn’t want

for anything.

8) "When single, a woman should use her charm to find a

husband; when married, to keep him; and as a widow, so as

not to displease."

"Borges shaved and put on a tie every morning out of

respect for others."

Keep the area clean even it's only out of respect for those

who pass through it.

9) If the police try to remove you, you might insult them,

spit at them, urinate on their boots... They will respond

with hoses, batons... I know that you have nothing against

the particular police-officer in front of you, that you are

doing it because it needs to be done so that everything can

change, that the police officer is a necessary victim... But

know that while you are insulting him/her, at all times be

aware that if, in the future, Spain were to go to war and the

enemy country's troops were to take your loved ones...

don't forget that these "necessary victims" are the only ones

who, selflessly, without knowing you at all, without asking

you any questions, will sacrifice their lives to save yours

and those of those dear to you.

10) Keep fighting for what you believe in: "a war ends

when someone wins". But, above all, be practical:

“primum vivere deinde philosophari” ("first one must live,

then one may philosophize"). And lastly and most

importantly: Keep your dignity! "I'll do anything you ask

me to and nothing you order me to".

Spain, 8 September 2011


"I am my train" (Rachel Finn, 1971-1999)

The train I missed is heading into the distance,

the train I missed is heading into the distance,

the train I missed is heading into the distance.

Everything seems to be coming to an end,

nothing in my hands at all.

The train I missed is heading into the distance,

the train I would miss again is heading into the distance,

the train I let go is heading into the distance.

Nothing in my hands at all

and everything seems to be coming to an end...

And everything seems to be coming to an end but it's only just beginning,

because I'm going to win, to win.

Because I'm going to win.

And if another train comes by, I'll miss it again.

Because I am my train,

because I am my train.

And I'll win even if I don't get far

and I travel in old shoes.

Because I am my train,

because I am my train.

Because even if they don't take me very far,

my dear old shoes are worth more

than all the trains in the world.

Because even if they don't take me very far,

my dear old shoes are worth more


Because today my mirror told me

that my dear old shoes are worth more


Because today I sang to my mirror

that my dear old shoes are the train

that will make me win..

traveling to the end of the world...

fighting to the end of the world...

dreaming to the end of the world...

Because even if they don't take me very far

they will always be, in the end, my very dear old shoes.

EPILOGUE

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF

HUMAN RIGHTS (1948)

Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the

equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human

family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the

world;

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have

resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the

conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which

human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and

freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the

highest aspiration of the common people;

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to

have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny

and oppression, that human rights should be protected by

the rule of law;

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of

friendly relations between nations;

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the

Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights,

in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the

equal rights of men and women and have determined to

promote social progress and better standards of life in larger

freedom;

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to

achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the

promotion of universal respect for and observance of

human rights and fundamental freedoms, and

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and

freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full

realization of this pledge; now, therefore, THE GENERAL

ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL

DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common

standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to

the end that every individual and every organ of society,

keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by

teaching and education to promote respect for these rights

and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and

international, to secure their universal and effective

recognition and observance, both among the peoples of

Member States themselves and among the peoples of

territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in

dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and

conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of

brotherhood.

Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and

freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of

any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion,

political or other opinion, national or social origin,

property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of

the political, jurisdictional or international status of the

country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be

independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other

limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security

of person.

Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude;

slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their

forms.

Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,

inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere

as a person before the law.

Article 7. All are equal before the law and are entitled

without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.

All are entitled to equal protection against any

discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against

any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by

the competent national tribunals for acts violating the

fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by

law.

Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest,

detention or exile.

Article 10. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and

public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in

the determination of his rights and obligations and of any

criminal charge against him.

Article 11. 1. Everyone charged with a penal offense has

the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty

according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the

guarantees necessary for his defense.

2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal

offense on account of any act or omission which did not

constitute a penal offense, under national or international

law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier

penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the

time the penal offense was committed.

Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary

interference with his privacy, family, home or

correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and

reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the

law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13. 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of

movement and residence within the borders of each state.

2. Everyone has the right to leave any

country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14. 1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in

other countries asylum from persecution.

2. This right may not be invoked in the case of

prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or

from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the

United Nations.

Article 15. 1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his

nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16. 1. Men and women of full age, without any

limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right

to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal

rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the

free and full consent of the intending spouses.

3. The family is the natural and fundamental

group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society

and the State.

Article 17. 1. Everyone has the right to own property alone

as well as in association with others.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his

property.

Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought,

conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to

change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in

community with others and in public or private, to manifest

his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and

observance.

Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion

and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions

without interference and to seek, receive and impart

information and ideas through any media and regardless of

frontiers.

Article 20. 1 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful

assembly and association.

2. No one may be compelled to belong to an

association.

Article 21. 1. Everyone has the right to take part in the

government of his country, directly or through freely

chosen representatives.

2. Everyone has the right of equal access to

public service in his country.

3. The will of the people shall be the basis of

the authority of government; this shall be expressed in

periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal

and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by

equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right

to social security and is entitled to realization, through

national effort and international co-operation and in

accordance with the organization and resources of each

State, of the economic, social and cultural rights

indispensable for his dignity and the free development of

his personality.

Article 23. 1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice

of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work

and to protection against unemployment.

2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has

the right to equal pay for equal work.

3. Everyone who works has the right to just and

favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family

an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if

necessary, by other means of social protection.

4. Everyone has the right to form and to join

trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure,

including reasonable limitation of working hours and

periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25. 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living

adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his

family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care

and necessary social services, and the right to security in

the event of unemployment, sickness, disability,

widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in

circumstances beyond his control.

2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to

special care and assistance. All children, whether born in

or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26. 1. Everyone has the right to education.

Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and

fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be

compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be

made generally available and higher education shall be

equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

2. Education shall be directed to the full

development of the human personality and to the

strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental

freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and

friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and

shall further the activities of the United Nations for the

maintenance of peace.

3. Parents have a prior right to choose the

kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27. 1. Everyone has the right freely to participate

in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and

to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

2. Everyone has the right to the protection of

the moral and material interests resulting from any

scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the

author.

Article 28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international

order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this

Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29. 1. Everyone has duties to the community in

which alone the free and full development of his personality

is possible.

2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms,

everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are

determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due

recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of

others and of meeting the just requirements of morality,

public order and the general welfare in a democratic

society. 3. These rights and freedoms may in no case

be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the

United Nations.

Article 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted

as implying for any State, group or person any right to

engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the

destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth

herein.

Switzerland, 10 December, 1948

Next 20-N

We've gone too far - it isn't the first time and it won't be the last. Now a little step backwards, and then

we can move forwards again - life moves in short bursts. When one generation works less than the one

before, it usually happens; they gave it all to us, we didn't need to do anything and we relaxed. Need is

the mother of progress. Buying with money that we didn't yet have, going out to dinner with money that

we didn't yet have, traveling with money that we didn't yet have... but the glass broke: Milky Crash!!

In any case, we'll get out of this one. Sooner or later. Voting or not voting. To those who vote next 20-

N, I hope you get it right. To those who don't vote, I wish you a fabulous autumn Sunday. To those who

camp:

1) Always talk, even in private, as if you were being listened to by the greatest specialist in the world

on the matters you are discussing.

2) Think of Moses and Spartacus also as 15-M-ers. Take what’s best from them.

3) You can't always consult the people. A car can't have two wheels.

4) We are not "all the same". We do all deserve the same respect.

5) You do not have "the right to be what you want", you have the right to try to be. There might be

others who are better than you at what you want to be.

6) If we destroy what there is, we'll go back to the caves and begin again...to end up here again.

Everything that happens is necessary.

7) Think about the people who work where you are camping. They could be your parents getting up

early to work when you were a child to make sure you didn’t want for anything.

8) "When single, a woman should use her charm to find a husband; when married, to keep him; and as a

widow, so as not to displease."

"Borges shaved and put on a tie every morning out of respect for others."

Keep the area clean even it's only out of respect for those who pass through it.

9) If the police try to remove you, you might insult them, spit at them, urinate on their boots... They

will respond with hoses, batons... I know that you have nothing against the particular police-officer in

front of you, that you are doing it because it needs to be done so that everything can change, that the

police officer is a necessary victim... But know that while you are insulting him/her, at all times be

aware that if, in the future, Spain were to go to war and the enemy country's troops were to take your

loved ones... don't forget that these "necessary victims" are the only ones who, selflessly, without

knowing you at all, without asking you any questions, will sacrifice their lives to save yours and those

of those dear to you.

10) Keep fighting for what you believe in: "a war ends when someone wins". But, above all, be

practical: “primum vivere deinde philosophari” ("first one must live, then one may philosophize"). And

lastly and most importantly: Keep your dignity! "I'll do anything you ask me to and nothing you order

me to.”

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