Pa' El Diego

No se achicopale, compadre!

Esta foto pierde su gracia si ya la habían visto pero igual está chistosita. Gracias a Orale! : El tabloide que se atreve a decirte la neta, por esta artística fotografía.

Así si dejo de fumar!

Estimado lector :

Le invito a picarle a las siguientes imagenes. Y si usted fuma, apoco no este panfleto lo hace sentir incómodo?

Ay mana, tu las traes!

El Diego ha tenido la amabilidad de embarrarme en el G8. Suena como a reclamo pero no, la verdad es que siempre me ha gustado que me pregunten cosas y hacerme la interesante. Lo que sigo sin entender, es porque tiene tanta fé en el blog de " El Negro Durazno" pero bueno, sus razones tendrá.

La dinámica es la siguiente :

Reglas:
1. Cada jugador empieza el juego diciendo ocho cosas sobre sí mismo.
2. Tienes que escribir las ocho cosas junto con las reglas del juego.
3. Debes invitar a jugar a ocho personas más, si son menos de ocho no importa, y escribir sus nombres.
4. Por último dejar un mensaje en su blog invitándolos al juego.


A ver...


1. Me encanta buscarme a mí misma en Google. Es suave ser la primera " aline salazar" en toda la red. Y me encanta que la gente ponga links a mi blog en sus blogs.



2. No me gusta que me abracen mientras duermo. Es un acto totalmente ñoño e innecesario. Aparte de que me empieza a dar la calor. Eso de cucharearse despúes del sexo, ya no es lo de hoy. Nomas estar acostados, chabacanear. Despúes de tanto derroche de energía, uno necesita su espacio.


3. Hasta hace algunos meses, me daba pena ir a comer tacos sola. Se me hacía un tanto deprimente ver a las chavas ahi solitas diciendo " Deme otro de suadero y uno de pastor con harta cebolla". Sólo era con los tacos, como que intimidan, todo lo demás lo puedo hacer sola. Ahora, he vencido mi temor y voy tranquila a El Pastorcito a comer, aunque me chingué 4 tacos ya no me da pena.


4. Hago como que no soy ñoña en cuestiones " del amor" y " de el ser amado" pero la neta soy ñoñisima. Guardo un portavasos de Barracuda de la primera vez que vi a Joakim. Ñoña!


5. Algunas veces cuando como pollo, me imagino un pollo asqueroso con sus sucias patas amarillas y su cresta tipo romano vivo en mi plato. Y dejo de comer.
( Quiero agradecer a mi hermano Moy/Peaches/ Negro Durazno por meter cabezas de pollo debajo de mi almohada durante mi niñez y a mi abuela Chelo por comprarle patitas de pollo para que me persiguiera por toda la casa. Ah y otra vez a Moy, por encerrarme en el gallinero por 5 horas cuando tenia 4 años. )


6. La primera vez que tomé una clase de foto llevé una cámara automática. Qué? Dijeron " Lleve su cámara" y efectivamente la llevé. Era la única que tenía.


7. El primer libro que tomé en serio fue de Alfonsina Storni. Estaba traumada con esa canción " Alfonsina y el mar" que cantaba Tania Libertad cuando tenía como 6 años. No entendía. Y cuando tenia 9 mi mamá me regaló ese libro.


8. Me da miedo entrar a las iglesías católicas. Tampoco me gusta la Semana Santa. Ni las imagénes de Jesus crucificado. Ni las películas de terror con tema religioso. Chale, debería ser atea.


Chale. Ya me piqué y ya acabé. Una más!

9. Me encantan mis chichis... jajaja


Y ahora mi dedito señala a ...


Ana y toda la familia Fortuna ( Especialmente Penelopita )

El Negro Durazno

Joakim Ziegler

Hans Petter?

El Neuras!

El que según no está borracho




Y ya.. chale. No conozco mucha gente con blogs que sepa que lee mi blog.

Pos no sé.. invito a todo aquel que quiera participar!

730 días

O probablemente un poco más. No sé. La neta es que no me acuerdo del día en que empezé a andar con Joakim. Al menos no de la fecha exacta. Quién sabe. Detalles. La cosa es que escogimos cualquier día del mes en el que según nosotros, nos conocimos. Ya saben esa nueva moda de juntar los nombres de cada persona y denominar a la pareja Joakaline? Ja.. si, igualito que Brangelina ( Ja, mi comentario frivolo y pendejo )
Estuvo suave el aniversario. Cuernavaca, comida thai, ron venezolano, 2 pelis y buenas sesiones de romanceo. Ah ah ah... cómo amo a mi novio!

A la sombra de tu luna
se acunó mi corazón,
se borraron mis arrugas,
mi casa se iluminó.

Sexo / Hambre

Sexo, ganas de / Hambre es canija ...

pero más quién la aguanta!

Las cosas que " uno" escucha en la calle...

Ayer iba caminando por la calle y chismosamente escuchaba la conversación de una pareja hermanos de unos 50 y tantos años que decía más o menos así :

Hermano : Yo no quiero a mi mamá. Nomas estobar. Quedatela tu.

Hermana : Yo tampocola quiero y yo no la voy a cuidar.

Hermano : Chin y que vamos a hacer?

Hermana : Haz lo que quieras pero conmigo no se queda.

Hermano : Yo tampoco

Hermana : Hijole

Hermano : Mejor la tiramos a la basura

Hermana : Si, vamos a tirarla a la basura.



Y lo mejor de todo, es que la conversación tenía un todo sumamente serio.



¿Quién se anima a tirar a su jefecita a la basura?

Puedo pensar en algunos.

Chale...

... el otro día me soñé casada.
... soñé la cara de mi hijo.

En un río con nombre raro.


Y fue tan real que me desperté llorando ...




Cu cu!

Woman in the Mirror / Richard Avedon

Hoy llegó a mi casa mi nueva adquisición. Qué felicidad!

Gracias Amazon!

Eternal Fascism : 14 ways of look at blackshirt

In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

* * *

1. The first feature of Ur-Fascism is the cult of tradition.

Traditionalism is of course much older than fascism. Not only was it typical of counterrevolutionary Catholic thought after the French revolution, but is was born in the late Hellenistic era, as a reaction to classical Greek rationalism. In the Mediterranean basin, people of different religions (most of the faiths indulgently accepted by the Roman pantheon) started dreaming of a revelation received at the dawn of human history. This revelation, according to the traditionalist mystique, had remained for a long time concealed under the veil of forgotten languages -- in Egyptian hieroglyphs, in the Celtic runes, in the scrolls of the little-known religions of Asia.

This new culture had to be syncretistic. Syncretism is not only, as the dictionary says, "the combination of different forms of belief or practice;" such a combination must tolerate contradictions. Each of the original messages contains a sliver of wisdom, and although they seem to say different or incompatible things, they all are nevertheless alluding, allegorically, to the same primeval truth.

As a consequence, there can be no advancement of learning. Truth already has been spelled out once and for all, and we can only keep interpreting its obscure message.

If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine, who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint Augustine and Stonehenge -- that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.

2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism.

Both Fascists and Nazis worshipped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon blood and earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life. The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.

3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action's sake.

Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Hermann Goering's fondness for a phrase from a Hanns Johst play ("When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun") to the frequent use of such expressions as "degenerate intellectuals," "eggheads," "effete snobs," and "universities are nests of reds." The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

4. The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism.

In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

5. Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity.

Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.

6. Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration.

That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old "proletarians" are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority.

7. To people who feel deprived of a clear social identity, Ur-Fascism says that their only privilege is the most common one, to be born in the same country.

This is the origin of nationalism. Besides, the only ones who can provide an identity to the nation are its enemies. Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the United States, a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson's The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others.

8. The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies.

When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers of Ur-Fascism must also be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

9. For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.

Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world. But such "final solutions" implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament.

10. Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak.

Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people in the world, the members or the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler.

11. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero.

In every mythology the hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the Spanish Falangists was Viva la Muerte ("Long Live Death!"). In nonfascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness. By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently sends other people to death.

12. Since both permanent war and heroism are difficult games to play, the Ur-Fascist transfers his will to power to sexual matters.

This is the origin of machismo (which implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality). Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons -- doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.

13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say.

In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view -- one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Because of its qualitative populism, Ur-Fascism must be against "rotten" parliamentary governments. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak.

Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the official language of what he called Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.

* * *

Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes. It would be so much easier for us if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Blackshirts to parade again in the Italian squares." Life is not that simple. Ur-Fascism can come back under the most innocent of disguises. Our duty is to uncover it and to point our finger at any of its new instances — every day, in every part of the world. Franklin Roosevelt's words of November 4, 1938, are worth recalling: "If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land." Freedom and liberation are an unending task.




Umberto Eco

Insólito!

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/429212.html

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