few weeks ago I saw an interview with Tony Hernandez, lead singer of" The Great Silence. " The program came out called Open Studio and go through Multimedia. For several years I am a follower of this program, but on this occasion, the words of Tony were left ringing in my head for long.
opened my eyes to another view of things. It made me realize that the current situation of violence and social decay had a simple origin, small and very close.
Those acts of corruption that we saw young and naive rose like a giant snowball that has become uncontrollable and that their proximity, it begins to roll.
"We have been hypocritical to the legality and the rule of law," Tony said in the interview. "That is a very hackneyed phrase. Surra when I see a politician and says 'The rule of law ...' Chingas your mother! We are itching eyes and we are like those horses that the farmer gives his Chingaza. First things soba to ride and then gets her spanking to boot. Since we came back in that kind of people, like those horses. "
" We accept impunity. Our limit of corruption was getting into the row of tortillas' Hey buddy, get in here. Do not queue. " Already surpassed the limit, "added Tony.
culture of corruption
And how right match his words. We ourselves generate and frozen culture of corruption. Acts as exemplified by Tony Hernandez, getting into the row of tortillas, making the accordion in the test, give the traffic for "Chesco." We did it even knowing it was wrong, but always seemed to justify the means.
What racionalizábamos thinking that corruption was part of our Mexican playfulness of "I do not I shut the world." It was like the sapwood to another and feel "badass" to impose in this game of words. We considered corruption as part of our daily lives. "He who does not swindle, not advance," was a phrase engraved on marble with bronze letters our history.
But our limits of corruption began to be resilient. We wanted more shortcuts and faster. We wanted less waiting and less sacrifices. That's what fueled the snowball to grow.
Today that traffic, the understanding you bought with 20 pesos for the "Chesco," and considers corruption as a modus vivendi. In Reynosa, a transit is not content with 20, 50, 100 or 200 pesos. Not anymore. So either you pay him what he wants, or takes you "to people," which basically is surrender to organized crime to the victim of an extortion higher.
On the way we lost our sense of the supreme good, the major objective was behind the immediate.
started looking for a really fast without worrying about what we built. The election day depositábamos our vote for the same old thing, but we knew that was not right. We knew that option was mired in decades of corruption, demagoguery, bread and circuses. But we had an acquaintance of the candidate that we could get "bone" in the town hall in any office or wherever. We put a price on our convictions.
Our view could only be immediate, and that is fed cancer.
Finally, the bomb to explode in our own hands and the big problem is already here, inescapable, omnipresent. But finally it is also today when we realize what we did wrong, and responsibility is up to us.
And no, this is not Calderon's war, but war for all of us. Is the war that we might not all, but almost all propitiate.
I have mentioned several times in the blog. And we realized we generate and the cost we paid. But our mind is clear. When I talk, read or listen to others perceive there is a need for change, new goals. An awakening of conscience.
And what Tony Hernandez said in his interview is a shared feeling. It is a worthy and desperate voice that becomes a general outcry. We have dropped many "twenties."
sense a feeling of transmutation, renewal and rebirth.
National Reconciliation
One day I decided to make a survey on Twitter, small and informal, but rather representative of the general feeling. "You feel responsible to some degree, however small, of the current violent situation? "asked the survey.
The 89.3% said they do feel responsible in some way to the current situation. 10% said no. The total number of voters was 132.
I must admit that the results surprised me. expecting a share of responsibility, but not 90%. I would love self-criticism that I'm noticing, because I feel this is the first step to open new paths.
We are less than 2 years to return to the polls to choose our next president the Republic. We expect months of extensive information and propaganda. We will be bombarded with speeches, hand wringing, slander, accusations and false promises.
But it is a great opportunity to demonstrate and demand, not to give away or sell our vote our convictions. It's time to tell the candidates obsessively, to buy the books they publish and read them to see their interviews in all media, to read all views, to put them under strict scrutiny. Ready to make the decision more informed and more hopeful of our lives. Is a crucial moment for our country.
Forget the
class as usual demagoguery, rich vs. poor. Of the ideological struggles always left vs. rights. Today we are for other things, to look at the supreme good and go in that direction.
It is time for national reconciliation.
Down put the full interview with Tony Hernandez. Addresses several issues from the perspective of Monterrey, where he lives, but we realize that the problem is more common than anything else. That even in Reynosa, Matamoros, Tampico or wherever, we feel identified with his proclamation. Let your words echo in our minds.
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