Eduardo Galeano disdains borders, both in life and in literature. Exiled from his native Uruguay after the 1973 military coup, he returned to Montevideo in 1985, where he continues to live and write. Galeano’s books subvert the distinctions between history, poetry, memoir, political analysis and cultural anthropology. With a graceful sense of craft, he uses “only words that really deserve… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesThe experts will come. Not soldiers, now “experts’ . Sometimes experts are even more dangerous than soldiers. They say,
“"You cannot. The market is irritated. The market may be angry."”
It is as if the market is an unknown but very active and cruel god punishing us because we are trying to commit the cardinal sin of changing reality.
When I hear our frog politicos, and yours, exhorting all of us to be ever-more competitive, I can now identify them more clearly as the acolytes of a cruel religion, demanding sacrifice of all that makes us human, like so many cattle going to the slaughter.
The destruction of memory and critical intelligence is a vital part of their campaign, as they work to dumb us all down into accepting their , and only their, History.
Follow the links back, forward and sideways from this analysis of the modern “MIS- education system” by John Taylor Gatto (merci bcp, wileywitch)
Chomsky wrote this
here ....it was like falling into a black hole or something. For one thing, it was extremely competitive -because that’s one of the best ways of controlling people. So everybody was ranked, and you always knew exactly where you were: are you third in class, or maybe did you move down to fourth? All of this stuff is put into people’s heads in various ways in the schools -that you’ve got to beat down the person next to you, and just look out for yourself.
How many Americans have read Howard Zinn’s Peoples History of The USA ? ( required reading in our local university first year. for students of english. Merci , daughter)
In their achieving that , we become eminently manipulable, willing victims for the simplistic soundbite of the TV Politician.
Dumb animals give way easily to fear and panic—try moving a flock of sheep.
PS I’d already recognised the (sincere ? ) Globalistas as possessed by an ideology, but the religion of the Cruel God is more apt.
WORSHIPPERS of THE INVISIBLE HAND.
Morons.
PS what is this with the german flag ? Frog is in frogland .
Posted by frog on Jul 18, 2006 at 5:26 AM Long time ago, I read “Memory of fire”, it was in time when other rules order my country. Now in this age, in this reality this book appear much rich in spirit of contradiction. A couple of days in time, in my country was a referendum (election day), not important result of this election, important is intern concern (like a “civil war”, may not in true sense), but in my mind was Latin America, was Uruguay in “1800 autumn”! Thanks for this book, for a history far, far away from this! Thanks Eduardo Galeano!
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