On Friday December 18 was the last session A WINDOW TO FREEDOM, the storytelling workshop for ten inmates in the jail in Temuco . An unprecedented experience in Chile, with few exceptions, and certainly replicable, but nothing simple. Because the reality show seems to move in another string. It happens that the intellectual, whether political, academic, artist (desperate or satisfied) or bureaucrat thought, seems out of the superstructure that shelters him, whether private, public, religious and factual, and are not going to risk a lot. And if we add that in Chile culture reigns of office to go to the bathroom, the paper tedious, the letter unanswered and, worse, some asinine (or suspect?) Adherence to the " competent authority ", the result is discouragement, a decline in creativity and a retreat of the spirit, not normally move between mediocrity. I've said it many times. Creativity not about to pay homage to good manners, and obedience to the persons or institutions who barely know what they do (while the figures will fit!), that's a defense of bureaucracy, almost always short-sighted. Creativity goes beyond the repetition of formulas, the profusion of noises or papers, the desire to be part of something or to join those who see culture as a duty. Creativity or creative faculty is painful as childbirth, extraordinary as interplanetary travel or just is a dropper. Already said Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): "The wise man seeks to adapt to the world, while the foolish man wants the world to adapt to him, all progress depends on the latter ".
Culture is much more than a distribution or data. It is that which, among many other merits, it makes us feel rich without money, put a stop between thought and action, and jump on the tyranny of desire (so expensive these days). It is a way to feel part of the community still in exile, and feel we can be alive even despising life.
days after the birth of Christ (not Milton Friedman), I take to greet my former workshop participants, urging them to step to resist, not only his personal misfortunes, but the number of arbitrary committed against them. In the opinion of this writer, any notion of progress (and not mere development) indicates that in a hopefully not too distant future, traditional jails will be seen as we now see slavery, torture or murder legalized.
EVERY MAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO ALL THE IDEAS, AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WILL BE IN THE ARISING 
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