NewsWhore
01-15-2009, 02:20 PM
"Wasted, manipulated, unfulfilled, dialoguing is not exactly a value on the rise. Moreso, it is lacking, but few believe in it. To hold talks? Why? Because the problems are starting to scare us all, including those who thought they were in control. What for? That is the million dollar question," writes Ines Aizpun in Diario Libre today.
"So that it looks as if we are talking to each other, to give a feeling of normalcy, to pretend a consensus that is so unreachable at this time such as the solution to the electricity problem. So that they do not say that we do not listen. To erase the image of "eat-alones". To discuss the constitutional reform with the staff occupied in other matters. To listen to the live forces, that elastic and mysterious combination of social agents, which have been talking for months and months without apparently anyone listening. To challenge the opposition, to see if it is true that they have any idea. To neutralize impertinent internal movements, taking them out of the picture. To place the leader above good and bad. Because he is well regarded, and will always come out of it looking good. Because they forget that we should "not take the name of the dialogue in vain."
"Is there a need for the talks? Yes. But without being naive. Without insulting each other's intelligence, since the world is full of people who believe that if they say please this has to be granted. And that is not it", writes Aizpun.
She adds a footnote: "Attention to the attendance, that with the live forces summoned, he who is not present can consider himself dead. Politically speaking, of course".
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)
"So that it looks as if we are talking to each other, to give a feeling of normalcy, to pretend a consensus that is so unreachable at this time such as the solution to the electricity problem. So that they do not say that we do not listen. To erase the image of "eat-alones". To discuss the constitutional reform with the staff occupied in other matters. To listen to the live forces, that elastic and mysterious combination of social agents, which have been talking for months and months without apparently anyone listening. To challenge the opposition, to see if it is true that they have any idea. To neutralize impertinent internal movements, taking them out of the picture. To place the leader above good and bad. Because he is well regarded, and will always come out of it looking good. Because they forget that we should "not take the name of the dialogue in vain."
"Is there a need for the talks? Yes. But without being naive. Without insulting each other's intelligence, since the world is full of people who believe that if they say please this has to be granted. And that is not it", writes Aizpun.
She adds a footnote: "Attention to the attendance, that with the live forces summoned, he who is not present can consider himself dead. Politically speaking, of course".
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)