Here's a recent article in THE JOURNAL ALWAYS ON THE UNFORGETTABLE Carlos Monsivais Monsivais
I said the first time he talked with him around 1964 in a event of the national student press association organized in Queretaro with the then rector Gutierrrez Hugo Vega: What is the concept of time in a developing country? What counts as underdevelopment but the fragmentation of time, in its incompleteness, the hours you never have sixty minutes, to minutes unable to inventory the second within them? The time is usually underdevelopment in shape, circular, and as for learning technique, usually populated by small levels .... The country does not agree to full autonomy, the individual does not access the full range ... The eternal return is the terrible feeling weak and continuous informs us that this was already live, that we tried this, that this has already failed. (It is anticipated that several years later write in 1970 in their day to save: 152)
Many years later in the act Carlos Monsivais tribute to their 70 and the delivery of the Doctorate Honoris Causes Lost he said about "fascinating and essential to society and the nation, with the exception of the liberal reform of Benito Juárez and the general period Lázaro Cárdenas, has been volatilized or ignition utopias. " Monsivais profuse clear that these losses in Mexican history "are not synonymous with lost causes, but the historical results and daily inequality of forces, the domain for long periods is also hegemony of the ruling class, regular purchase of which act as leaders or ideologues of the resistance. "
Lost causes share many features of the motion defeated but come from farther afield, "the ethical choices with aesthetic resonances of claims and claims for the immediate failure, but valid in themselves and able to instill that moment of dignity despite everything. " He said the losses are not elected and no one, for example, participates in a move "with the perfect illusion that is now the moment we make an electoral fraud and shines within our conviction destroyed. " What explains the species lost causes, he continued, is the certainty of the value inherent requirements of justice and of the struggle to achieve it.
"The first great victory is achieved over the pessimism that informs of the enormity of the obstacles and the unfortunate end of those who have attempted to challenge the winners again."
"The other big win also occurs when one side makes the criterion of fast and lasting success. When not flying the anxiety of the rise, and I think the rank and aware that victory never include them, that most likely they would like at first. "
In short, Lost Cause is that from which he never expected benefits.
GG: At the end of forty years of this heroic time we believed that opened the world of modernization, progress, justice and the noblest of human beings, we find a counterfeit country in the hands of the right most vulgar and uncouth, with a totally corrupt political class, some intellectuals turned over to self-praise, plagiarism and the elegy of insignificance, and a people who believed not only noble but heroic, speaking on reality as the PRI's famous painting, fearful, cynical conservative, unable to decide for yourself.
CM: Although today the concept is citizenship, not the populist concept of people.
GG: The modern concept may be that, but in a country with huge inequalities that we sometimes people behave as citizens and more as a people. With respect to the elites Cordera says Juan de Mairena citing that "public men, especially the politician, we must demand that possess public virtues, all of which are summarized in the fidelity to one's mask" .
CM: The mask linked to dissimulation. Peace Again: Not only do we disguised ourselves and we are transparent and ghostly, also concealed the existence of our fellows. The no, he adds. A profound revolution in Mexico would change the word None at this respect. For others, others, ourselves. To enter into a creative dialogue in effective deliberation begin to respect your partner without which no exchange possible. When no others, deny in the same act, the possibility of a link.
GG: That's exactly what concerns peace. Not that others ignore. They simply hidden. As others do to us. The end result is that we do not exist. Deliberation, dialogue, exchange is thus impossible. Peace is very radical in that sense saying that all relationships are poisoned by fear and suspicion Mr before our peers. Ends with a horrible sentence: the Mexican does not want or dare to be himself. How to subvert it?
CM: With a resounding NO to the way of Cavafy,
/ CHE FECE ... IL GRAN rifiuto
Some men came a day
that should the great Yes or the great
not say. Immediately reveals who has
prepared inside the Self, and saying
advances in honor and in his conviction. One who refused
no regrets. If you ask again,
not say again. And yet that overwhelms
no 'right' for life. /
with a heroic act.
GG: Or perhaps, and besides the heroic act, recalling Luis Cernuda:
Remember that you and others remember it, when disgusted
human baseness,
when irate human hardness:
This man alone, this single act This faith alone. Remember that you and remember
others. In 1961 and
strange city,
more than a quarter of a century later
. Trivial circumstances forced you to public
reading
by it to the man talk:
A former soldier in the Lincoln Brigade.
Twenty years ago, this man,
without knowing your land for
distant and strange it all, she chose to go to
and in it if the opportunity came, he decided to bet your life, judging that the cause
beyond
then put the board, was worth fighting for
faith filled life.
That this cause appears lost,
it matters
many others, claiming faith in it
only considering themselves,
less important.
What matters and all we need is one's faith.
again today why I listed the cause as in the days
:
noble and worth fighting for.
And his faith, faith that, he held
through years of defeat, when everything seems to betray
.
But that faith, you say, is what only matters.
Thanks, mate, thanks
by example. Thanks for telling me
that man is noble.
Never mind that so few are:
One, one just enough
irrefutable witness of all human nobility. I think
Carlos Monsivais in 1967 when I had to comment on the Casa del Lago early autobiography, "I have 28 years and I know of Europe. Also in 1966 and 1967 out of the International Film Festival, coffee in the Piazza Zona Rosa with the priest of the cultural mafia-like ironically called it. In 1968 during the student movement we became friends even. I saw him several times in Europe during my exile. During the 15 years I spent from one region to another region to work with farmers. Monsivais published my rural chronic in the cultural supplement of the magazine Siempre! But my memory
Carlos Monsivais is deep in our last meeting under the TV Dialogues by Mexico led by Rolando Cordera and with the participation of Clara Jusidman. We speak of social movements in the great moments of Mexico's independence, reform. The Revolution, Lázaro Cárdenas, 68, the dirty war, in 1985, the Cardenas electoral alternation, 2006. And the terrible day today.
In December 2009 I went to visit his home in Portales. He gave me several of his books including The thousand and one wakes, sensationalist Chronicle in Mexico (2009, National Book Association). Here I work for the first time a book
Gustavo, who lived with joy hard years to prepare, badly, at the entrance of the worst years. With the old affection
VAT.
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