Tuesday, January 4, 2011

3/16 X 5/32 X 3/16 Trowel

CHARACTERS AND PEOPLE OF THE BOOK ON



the last day of 2010, the newspaper "El Austral de Temuco published a list of" Characters Bicentennial "in the region of La Araucania. The list of 12 names,
representing 12 arbitrary categories (for example, parallels to Employers, with Women, People, Government, Fire ...), was chosen by voting from the readers. But 15 names in each category were selected in the laboratory of marketing of "Southern", which among other absurdities rejected the foundational moment for our absorbent Temuco-regional metropolis-is 70 years younger than the independent homeland (or the date we mark as such).

popular choice initiative had positive features, such as encouraging, even casually, in an authentic Wild West is still the region where there are many heroes with a reputation for evil, "the memories of key people and admirable, in their respective areas for the development or good name of La Araucanía, or at least of Temuco: Luis Picasso, Dufey or the incomparable Armando Rufino Bernedo basketball, to name just three. But neither is free from objections. Two examples: dismissed on the podium of the sports section, where a gymnast and withdrawal that does not reach the 20 - to Angolino Alberto Larraguibel, and equestrian who achieved a world record high jump on horseback that takes more than six decades without beaten, or appoint folklorist Tito Fernández (once a friend of the gunman Alvaro Corbalan) as the most important artist at the expense of Pablo Neruda, one of the most notable poets throughout the English language. But the exercise of democracy is so in the present times, and it seems be determined by the advertising device and progressive civic amnesia.
Moreover, every choice implies a discriminatory act, relating to trends or ideologies, if not with the established interests. And in every brick of glory (or fame, which is his illegitimate daughter) is a bleaching operation, a proud and self-promotion, why not say, violence. Today more than ever, the tyranny of google, the appearance of reality seems to have overtaken the reality itself, and that we should consider when measured, in others and in our illustrious people, the transient glory of this world .

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