No existe la libertad, sino la búsqueda de la libertad, y esa búsqueda es la que nos hace libres.
Que en paz descanse Carlos Fuentes.
http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/adiosacarlosfuentes-1288386.html
"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."
— Maurice Sendak (via nedhepburn)
(via randomactsofchaos)
Yesterday, somewhere between 2000-5000 people marched in Wellington against the government’s plans to partially sell state assets. This followed a similar sized march in Auckland last weekend and a week-long hikoi starting in Cape Reinga. After last year’s record low voter turn out, it would…
THIS. Key has to go. Marching and chanting yesterday I felt proud to stand up alongside the thousands of other NZers making their voices heard. We’re here, we’re angry, and we’re not going anywhere. In fact, we’re only going to get louder.
“Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the ratrace for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavor are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.”
“And it will be the foreign priest who will especially confirm your self-image for you. After all, his livelihood and sense of purpose depends on his firm belief in a year-round mission which is of the same type as your summer vacation-mission.”
Eduardo Galeano
“La democracia tiene miedo a recordar, las armas tienen miedo a la falta de guerra y los hombres tienen miedo a la mujer sin miedo”
Having a Murakami day alright.
“Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.”
(Source: overonehundred, via randomactsofchaos)
