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.

TV Show

When I was a child, a TV show that I really like was Kablam. It was about a lot of differents animated sketches. Their protagonist was a pair a kids called Henry and June, and they presented the sketch.

I remember specially two sketches: "Prometheus and Bob", and the "Action league now".

The first was about a alien who go to the earth in the prehistory and try to teach a caveman how to do  things like use the fire, read, use a TV, or even boxing. Obviously it always happens with a really hilarious touch, like that a monkey appears and stole the remote control of the TV. At the end, The caveman usually ends playing with the monkey meanwhile the alien suffer in one way or another.

The other sketch, Action League Now, was a sort of parody of the Justice League (in that years I was not know what was that) but with Action figures. Each one have a super power; one of them can melt himself, another can fly, even was one that have the super power of be naked. One of the things that I found awesome of the show is that it was filmed only using figures action, and how there wasn't a hand moving them. 

They have another sketches, but I think this two was the most funny.

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Country

I'm going to write about a country that I would like to visit. It was really hard to choose just one country, but well, I think that I'd visit England. I think that I choose that country because I have some many good references of there like some writters and musicians.

I don't really have interest to know all the monuments of the country, but I would like to walks trought the most poor neighbourds, or listen some up and comings bands in a bar. I really would enjoyed listen to the sex pistols or black sabbath in their earlier moments of their carrers, haha. And if I have to visit some place, I'd go to a Library, to look some books of Wilde, Godwin, Hume, and some more really old books.

I really want to know Ireland, and the history of the IRA movements. I don't know why but I found it so interesting and exciting.

 I'd like to walk around the streets of the city, maybe tasting the cakes, I had hear that they are so sweets. I would like too the english cigarretes, even when I don't know if they are differents of the cigarretes of here.

Anyway, visit England one thing that I really like to do someday.