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reprinted from jabok....
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Our system is one of detachment: to keep silenced people from asking questions, to keep the judged from judging, to keep solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its pieces.
The system divorces feeling from thought as it divorces sex from love, private life from public life, past from present. If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
The system empties our memory and fills it with garbage, and so it teaches us to repeat history instead of making it. Tragedy repeats itself as farce, the famous prophecy announced. But with us it is worse: tragedy is repeated as tragedy.
from "The Book of Embraces" by Eduardo Galeano translated by Cedric Belrage
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Our system is one of detachment: to keep silenced people from asking questions, to keep the judged from judging, to keep solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its pieces.
The system divorces feeling from thought as it divorces sex from love, private life from public life, past from present. If the past has nothing to say to the present, history may go on sleeping undisturbed in the closet where the system keeps its old disguises.
The system empties our memory and fills it with garbage, and so it teaches us to repeat history instead of making it. Tragedy repeats itself as farce, the famous prophecy announced. But with us it is worse: tragedy is repeated as tragedy.
from "The Book of Embraces" by Eduardo Galeano translated by Cedric Belrage