Por Soledad Vallejos, en Página 12

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In the ten healthiest counties in the United States, white men have a life expectancy above 76.4 years. By contrast, in the ten least healthy counties, African-American men have a life expectancy of between 61 years Philadelphia and 57.9 years District of Columbia Marmot 2001, 134. On the face of it, this inequality in the life expectancy for American men is seriously unjust. If one turns to the international context, inequalities in life expectancy of a similar magnitude can be observed even between the bottom countries and the global average: In 27 countries, both male and female life expectancy is 15 years or more below the global life expectancy of 67 years combining males and females; and this average is itself 15 years below life expectancy in Japan, which has the highest national average of all.

more on Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

A Tangled Tale (1885)
http://www.archive.org/details/letangledta00carrrich

Sylvie and Bruno concluded (1893)
http://www.archive.org/details/sylviebrunoconcl00carrrich

Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: What Alice Found There
http://www.archive.org/details/alicesadventures00carr

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits (1876)
http://www.archive.org/details/huntingofsnarkan00carruoft

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (1919)
http://www.archive.org/details/phantasmagoriaot00carr

The Game of Logic (1887)
http://www.archive.org/details/gameoflogic00carrrich

Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
http://www.archive.org/details/rhymereason00carrrich

The Lewis Carroll Picture Book; edited by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (1899)

http://www.archive.org/details/lewiscarrollpict00carruoft

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There must be something the matter with him

because he would not be acting as he does

unless there was

therefore he is acting as he is

because there is something the matter with him

He does not think there is anything the matter with him

because

one of the things that is

the matter with him

is that he does not think that there is anything

the matter with him

therefore

we have to help him realize that,

the fact that he does not think there is anything

the matter with him

is one of the things that is

the matter with him

there is something the matter with him

because he thinks

there must be something the matter with us

for trying to help him to see

that there must be something the matter with him

to think that tere is omething the matter with us

for trying to help him to see that

we are helping him

to see that

we are not persecuting him

by helping him

to see we are not persecuting him

by helping him

to see that

he is refusing to see

that there is something the matter with

him

for not seing there is something the matter

with him

for not being grateful to us

for at least trying to help him

to see that there is something the matter with

him

for not seeing that must be something the

matter with him

for not seeing that there must be something the

matter with him

for not seeing that there is something the

matter with him

for not seeing that there is something the

matter with him

for not being grateful

that we never tried to make him

feel grateful

Knots by  Ronnie D. Laing.

Para bien y para mal, el escritor verdadeiro escribe sobre la realidad que ha sufrido y mamado, es decir sobre la patria; aunque a veces parezca hacerlo sobre historias lejanas en el tiempo y en el espacio. Creo que Baudelaire dijo que la patria es la infancia. Y me parece difícil escribir algo profundo que no esté unido de una manera abierta o enmarañada a la infancia. Por eso aun los grandes expatriados, como Ibsen o Joyce, siguieron tejiendo y destejiendo esa misma y misteriosa trama. Viajar es siempre un poco superficial. El escritor del nuestro tiempo debe ahondar en la realidad. Y si viaja debe ser para ahondar, paradojalmente, en el lugar y en los seres de su propio rincón.

El escritor y sus fantasmas – Ernesto Sabato

Não há como ouvir White Rabbit e não se arrepiar. Abaixo a tradução da letra da música. Se não souber como fazer a cabeça, pergunte à Alice.

White Rabbit (tradução)

Jefferson Airplane

Coelho Branco

Uma pílula deixa você grande
E uma pílula deixa você pequeno
E aquelas que a sua mãe lhe dá
Não fazem efeito algum.
Pergunte à Alice
Quando ela estiver alta
E se você for caçar coelhos,
E souber que irá falhar,
Mostre a eles que uma lagarta fumando “Hookah“*
Tem feito o chamado para você.

Chame a Alice
Quando ela estiver apenas pequena.
Quando os homens no tabuleiro de xadrez
Levantarem e lhe disserem onde ir,
E você consumira há pouco um tipo de cogumelo
E sua mente estiver movendo-se lentamente,
Pergunte à Alice;
Eu acho que ela saberá.
Quando lógica e proporção
Tiverem caído por terra
E o Cavaleiro Branco estiver falando ao contrário
E a rainha vermelha “corte a cabeça dela!”
Lembre-se o que o rato silvestre disse:
“Alimente sua cabeça. Alimente sua cabeça.”

*Hookah = Narguilé.

Faz um ano que a entrevista foi concedida ao Hard Talk, que possui um grande entrevistador, Stephen Sackur, que é um chato mesmo. No Brasil, possivelmente teria sua carteirinha de jornalista cassada. Isso porque faz o que simplesmente um entrevistador da sua área, de política, deveria fazer. Isto é, fazer, no processo do diálogo, protuberar o “não-dito”, espremer as palavras do interlocutor-autoridade de modo que saiam da boca deste aquelas sobre si, que muita gente já pronunciou pelo conhecimento dos meros fatos; quando não se chega a isso, conseguir proporcionar ao telespectador o prazer em ver o entrevistado encuralado, contorcido,  bloqueado, desorientado.

No Brasil, o senhor Stephen Sackur seria o rísivel, e sua profissionalidade, o exemplo do que um entrevistador não deveria sanamente fazer. Não seria Stephen Sackur, pois sequer é possível que tal figura exista no nosso país. Mais triste é que ele sequer é radical. NO entanto, o ponto de partida para se considerar alguém como radical no nosso país é apenas o comportamento que não é “politicamente correto”. A esfera da sanidade social, no Brasil, gira entorno do apolítico por excelência.

Por isso vale a pena rever a entrevista de FHC, um a mais na lista dos colonizados tornados presidentes, ao Hard Talk. Um tipo de programa que, otimisticamente, só poderei assistir em um canal brasileiro em algum par de décadas.

By RS Urgente

Belem sees, in a very peculiar way, the atmosphere that Porto Alegre met in 2001, when received for the first time the World Social Forum. There are, for sure, important differences. One of them is not a detail: the world has changed. When WSF was born, as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, globalization still used to be sung in prose and verse, and its critics, rated as anachronistic, enemies of technology and fools. At the time, the then Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso even wrote an article calling luddites the organizers and participants of the Forum (referring to the English workers’ movement in early nineteenth century, which used to destroy the machinery for fear losing their jobs for them).

The supposed progress of market globalization were presented as inevitable and necessary to the prosperity of nations. Eight years later, neoliberal mantras not only lost strength but are also covered by heavy clouds of suspicion and distrust. From 2001 to 2009, market optimism and euphoria changed into affliction and lamentation.

There is, however, an atmosphere of novelty surrounding the WSF 2009. The world has changed, after all. And there is a great novelty as well to the paraenses, who are receiving for the first time the Forum. At hotels, streets and restaurants of Belém, English, French, German, among other languages begin to be heard. Such polyphony, however, is not even news in a State in which 60 languages are spoken. The polyglot Amazon is going to meet with other languages and parts of the world, and vice-versa.

Conservative voices in the city, as occurred in Porto Alegre, in 2001, speak about the possibility of chaos taking over Belém. There is, beyond doubt, a chaotic dimension in the WSF, but it is an extremely creative chaos. One of the greatest expressions of this creativity is the capacity that the Forum had, since 2001, to anticipate diagnostics and analysis that ended up being confirmed by reality. The lack of control of the market, the maddened and maddening free circulation of financial capital, the environmental destruction by the commoditization of the world, the energetic crisis and the growing militarization of the political agenda of nations are some examples.

Belém will have the opportunity to witness and formulate some of the first great synthesis of the world leftist about the crisis that highlights the beginning of 2009: economic, political, environmental and energetic crisis. And this in very different global environment than that one that took place in the birth of the Forum. This novelty, by itself, already represents a great challenge to the movement, which, in refusing the policies and principles of neoliberal globalization, has launched ideas and proposals that today no longer receive the label of anachronistic. Anachronism, today, has moved to the cold mountains of Davos.

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