This year, my country's 200 years of "independence". This is a big mistake. We are not independent; we think that we are free because that is the big plan for all of us. We are free in our invisible jail, a jail that we can not touch or see. We born in this prison and the school teaches us the way to stay in this state of trance and alienation of our freedom, show us a false illusion.
This year, in September I went to the celebration in the Moneda’s Palace, the great party of light, very beautiful, but in that moment I saw a sentence in the wall of the Palace: “1810-2010: 2 centuries of revolution”. Revolution? – I thought – Revolution of what? In 1810, the First Meeting of the Government was for support to the Spanish King, who was Napoleon’s prisoner. This is not a revolution, in France, this is a real revolution, the people took the power and the king was murder. Chile did the opposite in this meeting. So, in strict words, all of us and all the generations has being celebrate a nonexistent ceremony: in 1810, Chile did not win the independence.
In the century XX, the independence was only a bureaucratic try, only a position in the map. Because Chile was conquered not for the arms, it was for the money. Yes, the money, we was conquered for the businessman from England or U.S.A. The north of Chile, the mines of saltpeter or copper it belonged to foreign man, who didn’t put attention to the minimal protection for the workers, this fact was very obvious in the last great accident with the 33 miners. The south of Chile, it belongs in the present for the great magnate Douglas Tompkins and, again, to a few very rich people who wants to build the horrible project of Pascua Lama.
In the year 1960, 1985 and now in 2010, we can see that we have not independence for the nature. In these years and in many others, the great earthquakes destroyed all the cities with very much people injured and die. We have not control over the earth that we step.
The other great fact, 1973. This year can show us that we has not a real freedom in the way of think. For the first time a communist president was elected for manage the country, if this government was good or bad, I do not care, my point is that it was people who elected to Allende. But, in this years, the Cold War between USA and the URSS, it was obvious that the Nixon’s government did not other Cuba in South America, so he used to the CIA and the great puppet, Augusto Pinochet.
This year, in September I went to the celebration in the Moneda’s Palace, the great party of light, very beautiful, but in that moment I saw a sentence in the wall of the Palace: “1810-2010: 2 centuries of revolution”. Revolution? – I thought – Revolution of what? In 1810, the First Meeting of the Government was for support to the Spanish King, who was Napoleon’s prisoner. This is not a revolution, in France, this is a real revolution, the people took the power and the king was murder. Chile did the opposite in this meeting. So, in strict words, all of us and all the generations has being celebrate a nonexistent ceremony: in 1810, Chile did not win the independence.
In the century XX, the independence was only a bureaucratic try, only a position in the map. Because Chile was conquered not for the arms, it was for the money. Yes, the money, we was conquered for the businessman from England or U.S.A. The north of Chile, the mines of saltpeter or copper it belonged to foreign man, who didn’t put attention to the minimal protection for the workers, this fact was very obvious in the last great accident with the 33 miners. The south of Chile, it belongs in the present for the great magnate Douglas Tompkins and, again, to a few very rich people who wants to build the horrible project of Pascua Lama.
In the year 1960, 1985 and now in 2010, we can see that we have not independence for the nature. In these years and in many others, the great earthquakes destroyed all the cities with very much people injured and die. We have not control over the earth that we step.
The other great fact, 1973. This year can show us that we has not a real freedom in the way of think. For the first time a communist president was elected for manage the country, if this government was good or bad, I do not care, my point is that it was people who elected to Allende. But, in this years, the Cold War between USA and the URSS, it was obvious that the Nixon’s government did not other Cuba in South America, so he used to the CIA and the great puppet, Augusto Pinochet.
So, in conclusions, we are independent? No. The only way for be real independent is if we leave the idea that the school has show us, in other words, if we are independent of the government’s idea of independence. We can construct a real independence if only we can free the mind of the people, the child and show them that the real freedom consist in the free way of think, not the thinking that appears on TV or in the newspaper, the free way of think in our own mind.
