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This is a version in English of a Spanish poem by Miguel Hernández.
And this is an interview of Aldous huxley in which he said "The Ruled Will Actually Love Their Slavery".The Winds of the People
The winds of the people carry me,
the winds of the people blow me on,
scattering this heart of mine
and readying my throat.
Oxen bow their heads,
impotently weak,
at their punishment:
lions lift theirs
and at the same time punish
with their clamorous claws.
I am not from a race of oxen,
I am from a race that holds
the mines of lions,
the passes of eagles,
and the ridges of bulls
with pride in the horn.
Oxen never prospered
in the wastes of Spain.
Who spoke of throwing a yoke
over the neck of this race?
Who ever yoked
or hobbled a hurricane?
or kept a lightning bolt
a prisoner in a jail?
Asturians of courage,
Basques of armoured stone,
Valencians of happiness
and Castilians of soul,
labouring like the earth
graceful as wings;
Amdalusians of lightning
born among the guitars
and forged on torrential
anvils of tears;
Estramadurans of rye,
Galicians of rain and calm,
Catalans of firmness
Aragonese of lime,
Murcians of dynamite
fruitfully multiplied,
Leonese, Navarrese, masters
of hunger, sweat and the axe,
kings of minerals,
lords of the tilled soil,
men who among the roots,
like elegant roots,
go from life to death,
go from void to void:
people of ill descent
want to put yokes on you,
yoke you must leave
broken across their backs.
The twilight of the oxen
is the point of daybreak.
Oxen die humble,
clothed in the stink of stables;
the eagles, the lions,
the bulls, die with pride,
and behind them the sky
is un-darkened and endless.
The agony of the oxen
makes the spirit small,
that of the wild creature
enhances all creation.
If I am dying, let me die
with my head held high.
Dead and twenty times dead,
my mouth in the grass,
I’ll keep my teeth clenched
and my chin resolute.
Singing I wait for death,
for there are nightingales that sing
above the fusillades
and in the midst of battle.
Answer yourself if you are still able of doing so.
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Unluckily, most of modern European "leaders" are political pigmees and temporary managers.
90% of the activity of elected politicians is populism, lies and efforts to show opponent as idiot. After elections they forget 90% of election program, their rating falls to 5% and plebs finds a new talking head
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Kinda didnt mind Putin and agreed on many of his speeches, but getting rid of opposition like that is ridicolous. I kinda lost sympathy, whether Navalny was good or bad, this is next level.
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Just because you don't like that system doesn't have to mean that you want what Mr. Putin & friends offers. Isn´t it?
In the West maybe we have less and less way to influence the direction of the decisions of those in power, in Russia they have absolutely no way, no one dares to dissent and they end up accepting that the best thing is to simply not make noise, lower their heads and continue. with his own. "I am not interested in politics" (For the ancient Greeks those were the "idiots")
That's all very well, until the decisions of those in power start to affect you directly and there is no way to do anything, and you will also look around for help and everyone will look the other way.
If their way of thinking and doing things is imposed, there will be no way to implement any reform or find any third way, it will be the imposition even if there are two separate sides each one with its sphere of power.
As at the beginning of the Cold War, individual freedom was totally repressed, on one side out of conviction and on the other simply because "individual freedoms would make us weak against our enemy."
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