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Piece of new Summary

I choose a column of a man called Tim. Tim have a children, called Louise. She asked to him about the point. “The point of what?” he ask back. “You know. Living. Everything”.

In the column, Tim shows the different answers and messages that the people used to use with their children, and he makes reflections about it. Messages like ‘the point of the life is to be happy’ or ‘the point of the life is to be a good person’. The problem to the writer is that if you tell that toy a child, he or she gonnas to pursue that goals, and in the personal experience of Tim, that type of things are thing that you more pursue, their more seemed to elude you. There is no problem if you feel good or happy, but that things transpired. You don’t have to pursue them. People who tried desperately to be good gets depressed.

 “To serve god” is not a good answer too. There are so many gods and a lot of ways to serve them. The problem is that the child will internalize moral courage only because it’s feeling like an obligation. The people shouldn’t act with moral courage because they ought to.

 “Follow your dreams” is another possible answer, the answer of the Disney movies. In the writer point of view, we have capacities and weakness, and we can’t do everything. We have limitations and is good to know them.

“Muddle through, roll with the punches and hope for the best.” Is the common sceptical answer, it’s not inspiring but at least is honest, because he combines the luck and the chaos of the life.

At the end, Tim admits to not have an answer but if He has to response honestly, he would say: “The point of living, Louise, is to try to get back as an adult what you are shortly going to lose as a child.” To Tim, the children know that the life has no purpose; they only live in the moment. The adults forget how to do that.

I choose this piece of new because I think that the children have questions to everything, and the answer of the people can have a lot of effect in their mind through all their lives. I think that the children have the advantage of have no certainty, so they can question all. 

A Film

The last movie that I saw is Memento. It was a film directed by Christopher Nolan. The principal actors of the film are  Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano. I saw it because a friend recomends me the movie a pair of years ago, but for some reason I did not want to see it before.

The film ends with the the photography of a dead man in the floor. But actually, this scene is the beggining of the movie, because the movie start with the scene that chronologically is the end. Through the movie, we go more and more to the past. That’s funny because when we see a new scene, we have more information and then we reinterpret the previous scenes.

The movie was about Leonard, a man who can’t make memories. He remeber everything of his past til a specific moment of his life. Since that moment forward. That’s is a problem because often he is talking with someone, but he can’t remember who is that person or how the conversation started. He only have notes that remember him where he lives, which is her car, etc. I think that the backwards style of the movie combine really great, because we don’t know neither the past. And we have to take a lot of atention, because the film can be really confused.

I think that one message of the movie is the fact we are actually like the protagonist. Our memories are really usefull, but, like the notes in the film, we didn’t know why we remeber that things, or in what situation we make that or another conclusion about something or someone.

Know I want to see another movie, called Happy ending. That have the same narrative style that this movie.

A Book

Well, I use to read a lot of things for the career, and I used to underline the important things. Fortunately I can't underline when I am travel in the minibuses, so I read another things.
Now I'm reading a text of Paul Feyerabend called '¿Por qué no Platon?' or 'Why not Plato?' in English (I can't really find how the text is called in English, the original was in writed in german). In this book, Feyerabend talks about the science, and how it was worked in the last centuries. The book consist in somes essays and conferences of this man.
Well, Paul maintain that the science produces knowledge, but that his method is not superior than the magic or religions. He talks about how the specialist are really dogmatics, and how the science, even when traits to show itself like the truth, make a lots of mistakes, and often try to apply his authority to areas in that don't have any knowledge, like the education, when the science is teached like an absolute true.
Feyerabend defends that the scientist are humans and they have a point of view affected by social facts, that they have really childish behaviors and usually they don't want to accept their errors, and that their authority is unfounded.
Anyway, he doesn't try to destroy the science, he only thinks that we need more points of view. That the child can learn about chemistry in the schools, but they can also decide learn about alchemy too. He says that know the different point of view allow us to criticise the paradigms among them, and the possibility of choose for ourselves the way to resolve different problems or look the things (something like what happens in the social sciences, where a lot of points of view study a same thing).

I Think that is an interesting proposal. At first look it sounds really crazy, but in the book he has their arguments, and they resolve the different questions and problems that this ideas can create. I recommend it a lot.

Celebrations

I think that really never was in a big festival, maybe because they don't attract me a lot. Maybe some celebrations like the new years in the ñuñoa square with some friends, and a lot of concerts, even one where in the line, the people begins to drinks alcohol and suddenly they throw the cans of beer trough the air, and there was raining beer.

But well, I think that the last special celebration that I remember was a travel that I do with my best friend to Valparaíso. We stay in a house of a friend of her. Her family was all musicians, I remember a spanish man who was exactly like the Quijote, but with a guitar instead of a spear.
I remember that we go to a bar, and sings all the songs that was playing in the place. I was a little drunk and unintentionally I enter to the girls bathroom, I didn't noticed it until I leave.

There we travel to the streets. We see a lots of mural, they seems really different in the night.
I remember that we talk with a lot of people that we meet there. Even it wasn't a special date, the streets was full of people celebrating.
At least, we go home to sleep. In the morning the householder wake up us with some natural orange juice, very good to the hangover. It was really great.

I think that this is all that I can speak about that day.

(Now that I remember good, I guess that I have been in some festivals and celebrations, but that would be write in other blog).

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The greatest chilean of all time

I think that the greatest Chilean of all the time may can be José Domingo Gomez Rojas; he was an student and a poet. He live between the year 1896 and the 1920. That era was characterized for a lot of social movements who fight for different thing like the social question, the education, the taxes, etc.

He actively participates in a lot of manifestations, and he wrote a lot of poems and essays about the problems of the Chilean society of his time.

He was student in the pedagogic institute of Chile and the school of law, and there he work in the Student federation of Chile, but he was mainly involve in the assembly of the radical young people. Also he was part of some intellectual groups, like The X (Or ‘the ten’).

Unfortunately, in 1920 the Chilean government moves some troops to the north, because supposedly there were some secrets antecedents that make possible a war with Peru. But that was a fake. In this way, is decreed martial law, fact that is used to take prisoner Gomez Rojas without reason.

There, He was constantly tortured, but that doesn’t stop him of write poetry. In the 29 of September, he died. His friends and his family tells that they remember him being taken for the policy in the protest while he smiles and sings ‘A las barricadas’.

I think that if he still alive, I don’t would make him only one question. I think that I will ask him for his experiences, in the city, in their intellectual groups, in their organizations, in prison.