Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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Floggers vs. Emos: the paradox in the dispute and suicide

In recent weeks, any Argentine-even those who, like me, keeps a low or even minimal contact with the television program "had access to a large number of notes devoted to revive the well-known theme of" urban tribes. " In this case, however, the tribes that were under the microscope were not the traditional media-by which I mean the punks, the skinheads, the Gothic, the ever present cumbieros, etc-but two relatively new groups and theoretically antagonistic: the "floggers" and "emos."

However, before communicating my vision in this regard, it seems appropriate clarify that my purpose in this post is not to inquire about the cultural and ideological purposes of these groups, in fact, I think they are nonexistent-but I intend to discuss the paradox that surrounds the profusion of these new trends revolve around adolescence.

dared not say that these new tribes are heirs of capitalist culture, a consequence of the expansion of a theme that builds the homogeneity from the difference. So, if you pay attention to the dominant discourse, is seen in young people strongly believe that they are different even if their peers look the same way and claim the same thing. Or is this not what is reflected in the mass meetings in the Supply or the square in the vicinity of Bond Street?

However, as regards this last point, the attitude of emo is even more paradoxical than the floggers because while they recognize themselves as social beings and do not deny the system in which they are embedded but that make your office a lifestyle, those wielding a discourse of protest and rejection that is no coincidence whatsoever to their conduct. Thus, we hear them describe themselves as loners, to just misanthropes and yet, provide extensive social networks using the same technology as their rivals: the Internet. Surprisingly, even the proliferation of gold fotologs "where these subjects are portrayed themselves in conditions that differ little from those of the" vain "and" frivolous "floggers. Worse

is watching the show from his injuries photographed as a trophy of war, as if the pain will generate a pride worthy of being photographed and displayed before others. It is worth mentioning, however, that my criticism here is not directed to the fact that someone is hurt himself, but what I find inconceivable is that a person is doing harm to the public as if trying to justify to eyes of the spectators something as private as existential angst.

Finally-and to summarize because, in truth, this is an issue ripe for analysis and debate, there is one aspect that I find especially troubling is the fact that these new groups of young plant identification not only an aesthetic that serves the interests of a market that operates on a preset range, but also a terrible impoverishment of language.

Today it is fashionable to speak ill and who dares to challenge this new law is seen as outdated and incomprehensible character with horror, I see daily the lack of vocabulary that you have my brother, a flogger of thirteen and, worst of all, the pride that this causes. Dispenses with words without the slightest interest in knowing their meaning and pride to practice writing anarchic, lacking any connection with spelling rules.

But if this bold disregard for the laws of culture is inconceivable in any human being, even more so in the case of "emos" as far as they are called to be a representation of a "counterculture "channeled in aesthetics and art. What is the goal, then, to depose our language with no "h", the profusion of "z" and the extinction of accents when "ignorance" role in the social universe is the subject of criticism? No answer but the most banal and rejected by who describes himself as a unique and independent of public opinion attention.

No way, then the fans of these groups and most of all the "emos" - conduct that would qualify as "nasty" in other tribes, especially the "villainous" - such as intake alcohol in excess or the propensity to casual sex and promiscuity ...

Are they different, then those flying the flag of the difference? Or the distinction is extinguished along discourse? They say that the fact that there is long way ... and there in the crack that spans between them, has melted down the shoots of intention.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

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The cruelty of the English, who went on to posterity as "The tyrant Aguirre" - reached limits ends: in 10 months came to kill 72 people of issue by considering them useless ... In 1561 forced the chiefs and soldiers under his command to sign a declaration of war English Empire was proclaimed Prince of Peru, Tierra Firme and Chile.

Author: Elias Anzola Pérez

Among the English characters linked to the colonization of American soil contained Lope de Aguirre, born about 1510 in the Valley of Araotz, Manor Oñate, by that time Kingdom of Castile, the Basque Country today.

When Francisco Pizarro returned to Spain from Peru with the news of the fabulous treasures that were there, Aguirre, 21, lived in Seville, where he joined an expedition 250 men under Rodrigo Buran, arriving in Peru in 1536. At that time the English crown wanted to implement the so-called New Laws, and end the encomienda system and liberate the natives did not like provisions because those provisions conquerors prevented them from further exploiting the Indians.

Lope de Aguirre, upon his arrival to Peru, he enlisted in a military contingent under the command of Núñez Vela and for two years he captained faced that Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisco de Carvajal. In 1546 the latter defeated Núñez Vela and Lope de Aguirre then fled to Nicaragua, returning to Potosi, then part of Peru- in 1551. After his capture he was arrested and publicly whipped by order of the judge Francisco de Esquivel, a judge whom he pursued for several years to kill him at his residence in Cuzco, which earned him a death sentence that was never fulfilled.

In September 1560 the conquistador Pedro de Ursua broke down the Amazon River, then called Marañón, in search of the fabled El Dorado with 300 soldiers, including Lope de Aguirre and Elvira, daughter-mixed, several dozen black slaves and 500 Indian servants. On the route taken history will refer to them as "The cashew.

A year later, Lope de Aguirre participated in the overthrow and assassination of Ursua and then his successor, Fernando de Guzman, who was replaced as chief, also sent to kill Ines de Atienza, mestizo who had been the girlfriend of Ursua. Finally, the expedition reached the Atlantic Ocean, possibly at the mouth of the Orinoco River.

Lope de Aguirre in 1561 forced the chiefs and soldiers under his command to sign a declaration of war against the English Empire was proclaimed Prince of Peru, Tierra Firme and Chile, as detailed letter sent to King Philip II, signing with the nickname of "Traitor." That same year he took Margarita Island, where detailed written several letters to the king, signing with the nicknames of "Pilgrim" and "Prince of liberty." In Barquisimeto killed his own daughter and several of his followers, and finally was killed in that city by one of the sailors on October 27, 1561. His head was caged and sent to The Tocuyo, in a trial post-mortem was found guilty of lese majesty.

The cruelty of the English, who went on to posterity as "The tyrant Aguirre" - reached extreme limits: in 10 months came to kill 72 people of issue by considering them useless. The beach Tirano, or Puerto Fermin, northeast of the island of Margarita, prolongs the memory of this bloody character who has been the subject of several literary works, films and music, some of which mention in the next paragraph. Arturo Uslar Pietri

published in 1947 "The road to El Dorado" and Miguel Otero Silva unveiled in 1979, "Lope de Aguirre, the Prince of freedom." Evencio Castellanos composer wrote the oratorio "The tyrant Aguirre, who was to be released in a function of reopening of the Teatro Municipal in Caracas on July 29, 1967 and was later suspended for a few minutes into the concert the city was rocked by a strong earthquake leaving serious material damages and loss of life.

Certainly the author of this review, together with a friend and fellow doctor, now deceased, was anxious on the side of the coliseum box office Caracas trying to get the necessary input-free, but exhausted "when they felt the eerie noises that made us go down, stampeding, eight or ten steps of the semicircular steps and then a "Who knows how long!" take our respective directions. I've never been gone from the mind the question of whether such a fateful moment there was a fateful link with the cruel character.