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The luxury of being spectators

A menudo se declara que «Occidente» ha llegado a considerar cada vez más la guerra como un espectáculo. Los informes sobre la muerte de la realidad —como la muerte de la razón, la muerte del intelectual, la muerte de la literatura seria— parecen haber sido aceptados sin mucha reflexión por las personas innumerables que intentan comprender lo que parece mal, vacuo o estúpidamente triunfalista en la política y la cultura contemporáneas.

La afirmación de que la realidad se está convirtiendo en un espectáculo es de un provincianismo pasmoso. Convierte en universales los hábitos visuales de una reducida población instruida que vive en una de las regiones opulentas del mundo, donde las noticias han sido transformadas en entretenimiento; ese estilo de ver, maduro, es una de las principales adquisiciones of 'modern' and prerequisite to dismantle traditional forms of politics based on party, which holds the real debate and dissent.

assumes that everyone is a spectator. Hints of perverse way, the light in the world there is real suffering. However, it is absurd to identify the world with regions rich countries where people enjoy the dubious privilege of being a spectator, or to refuse to be, the pain of others, as it is absurd to generalize about the response capacity the suffering of others from the disposal of those news consumers who know nothing first hand of war, injustice and widespread terror. Hundreds of millions of television viewers are not all hardened by what they see on TV. They can not afford to underestimate the reality.

has become commonplace in the cosmopolitan debate about images of atrocities presumed to have little effect, and there is something inherently cynical dissemination. Although people today believe that the images of war matter, this does not dispel the lingering suspicion about the interest in these images and the intentions of those who produce. This response comes from both ends of the spectrum: the cynics who have never been near a war and weary of the conflict endure their misfortunes when they photograph.

citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, have been taught to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do everything within their power to prevent moving. How easy it is, from the couch, away from danger, sustain a spirit of superiority. In fact, deride the efforts of those who have witnessed in areas of conflict, calling it "war tourism" is a trial of this appellant that has invaded the debate on war photography as a profession.

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Regarding the pain of others, Sontag Sunsa

Editorial Alfaguara, Madrid 2003.

PD. Photographer Manu Brabo , arrested along with 3 other journalists, by the Gaddafi regime. His work can be seen here . Encourage your family and hopefully soon Manu may still show through your photos a few layers of reality. Latest

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Strategies against the Empire

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Our strategy should not only face the Empire, but also under siege. Deprive it of oxygen. Shame. Make fun of him. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubborn stubbornness, our joy and, above all, our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from those that would have you believe to brainwash us. The revolution that promoted majors will fail if we refuse to buy what we want to sell: their way of thinking, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, trying to imbue idea that it is inevitable that its worldview reality. There is something that we should not forget: we are many and they are few. We do not need, and they need us.

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Democracy, the modern world's holy cow, is in crisis. It is a very deep crisis. In his name were committed all sorts of abuses. It has become little more than an empty word, in little more than a beautiful shell devoid of any content or meaning. You can be whatever you want it to be. Democracy is the prostitute of the free world is prepared both to disguise it as being asked to strip, to satisfy every desire, to take advantage of it and the insult.

Until relatively recently, until the eighties, seemed that democracy might be able to provide some degree of social justice.

But modern democracies are old enough to neoliberal capitalists have learned how to corrupt them. Have mastered the technique of infiltrating the instruments of democracy, the judiciary "independent" press "free" Parliament "and divert its course to bring water to his mill. The project of globalization promoted by multinationals has broken all the rules. Concepts such as free elections, free press and independent judiciary lose their meaning when the free market to reduce assets are available the highest bidder.

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The battle to reclaim democracy will be difficult. Our liberties we were not granted by any government. They are taken away. And once we have given them aa, the battle to retrieve them is called revolution. It is a battle that will involve all continents and countries. You should not accept the national borders, but it has to start here. In the United States. The only institution more powerful than the U.S. government is American civil society. The rest of the opponents of the Empire are subjects of slave nations. No complete lack of power, ni mucho menos, pero ustedes tienen el poder de la proximidad. Ustedes tienen acceso al palacio imperial y a los aposentos del emperador. Las conquistas del Imperio se realizan en su nombre, y ustedes tienen el derecho de rechazarlas. Podrían negarse a luchar. Podrían negarse a llevar los cohetes de los arsenales al puerto. Podrían negarse a agitar las banderitas. Podrían negarse a presenciar el desfile de la victoria.

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El fragmento I procede de «Enfrentarse al Imperio», discurso pronunciado en el Foro Social Mundial de Porto Alegre 2003. Y el II y III proceden de «¡Pruebe la democracia instant imperial! (Take two boats and pay only one) ", a conference that the author gave India the Riverside Church, Harlem, in 2003. The texts are included in war rhetoric (Anagram, 2003) that will return tomorrow to the library Puerta de Toledo ... If someone wants, you know where is.

PD. Interview in Al Jazzeera (in English).

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