Thursday, January 28, 2010
Cos Of Ulcer In The Gum
shared with me this morning @ jmreyes_ taken from Untasted Wine. Something like nostalgia to joke ... read it: it's worth.
* By Eduardo Galeano. Professor and Uruguayan journalist.
"What I just do not get to roam the world and throwing things changed for the following model just because someone comes up to add a function or shrink a little ...
Not so long ago with my wife, we washed the swaddling clothes of the kids, hung on the rope with the other clothes, the planchábamos, the doblábamos and preparing for the return to soil ..
And they our kids, just grown up and had their own children were ordered to throw it all away, including diapers.
unscrupulously were given a disposable! Yes, I know.
Our generation always took out of service. Neither we were very disposable waste! And so we walked through the streets keeping the mucus in the pocket handkerchief.
Nooo! I do not say it was better. What I say is that at some point I got distracted, I fell off the world and now I do not know where it goes. Most likely, it is now, this does not deny it. What happens is that I can not change the stereo once a year, the phone every three months or the computer monitor every Christmas.
Guardo disposable cups!
Lavo latex gloves that were to be used once!
live plastic flatware with stainless steel in the kitchen drawer!
is coming from a time when things were bought for a lifetime!
Indeed!
were bought for the life of those who came later! People inherit
clocks, sets of glasses, dishes and bowls to china.
And it turns out not so long in our marriage, we had more cooking than I had in all my childhood neighborhood and changed three times cooler.
We are screwing up! ! I discovered them! They do it on purpose!
Everything is broken, worn, rust, cracks or consumed in a short time we have to change it. Nothing is repaired. The factory is obsolete.
Where are the cobblers mending the soles of the media- Nike tennis?
Has anyone seen a mattress mattresses weeding every house? Who fixes
electric knives? Does the grinder or the electrician?
Will tinsmiths Teflon or airplane seat to the saddlers?
Everything is pulled, everything is discarded and, meanwhile, produce more and more and more garbage.
The other day I read that there was more trash in the past 40 years in the history of mankind.
who have less than 30 years is not going to believe this: When I was a child by my house did not pass that picked trash!
I swear! And I have less than ... years!
All wastes were organic and were to stop the chicken coop, a duck or rabbit (and I'm not talking about the seventeenth century)
There was no plastic or nylon. The rubber just saw the wheels of cars and shooting were not burned them down on the Feast of San Juan. The little waste
not eat animals, served as compost or burned. From 'out there' I come. And not that there's been better .. It is not easy for a poor guy who taught him to 'save, and save that any It can also serve for something ', passed to' buy and throw that already has the new model. " We need to change the car every 3 years maximum, because otherwise, you are a bankrupt. So you have the car is in good condition. And you have to live eternally in debt to pay again!! But by God.
My head does not stand much.
Now my family and my friends' children not only cellular change once a week, but also change the number, email address and even the actual address.
And I was prepared to live with the same number, the same woman, the same house and same name (and boy, was a name to change it) I was raised to save it. TOO! What they served and what is not. Because someday things could return to service.
gave him credit for anything.
Yes, I know, we had a big problem: they never told us what things we might serve and what not .. And in an effort to save (because we do case) keep up the navel of our first child, the tooth of the second, folders kindergarten and I can not not keep the first poop. How want to understand those people that emerges from his cell phone a few months after buying it?
Is that when things are readily available, not valued and become disposable with the same ease with which they were achieved?
At home we had a cabinet with four drawers. The first box was for tablecloths and towels, covered the second for the third and the fourth to everything that was not cloth or covered. And we kept .. . How we kept! Tooooodo we kept it! We kept
lids of soft drinks! What for?! We did clean-shoes to put in front of the door to take away the mud. Bent and hooked to a rope turned into curtains for the bars .. After classes you took out the cork, and clavábamos martillábamos A peck to make instruments for end of year party at school. Tooodo we kept!
When the world is squeezing the brain to invent lighters were thrown at the end of its cycle, recharge invented disposable lighters. And the Gillette-up halved-sharpener became throughout the school year. And our drawers kept the little keys of cans of sardines or corned-beef, in case that some can come without its key. And the batteries! The batteries of the first Spica freezer went to the roof of the house. Because we did not know whether to keep them warm or cold for them to live a little longer. We resigned ourselves to that end their life, we could not believe that anything less than a jasmine live.
Things were not disposable. Were storable. Newspapers!
were used for everything: to make templates for the rubber boots to put on the floor r rainy days and above all things to wrap. The times that we learned from reading the paper some results attached to the piece of meat!
And we kept the silver foil chocolates and cigars for Christmas pinitos guides and calendar pages for pictures and medicine droppers if he did not bring any medicine dropper and used matches because we could turn on a burner of the volcano from the one that was turned on and the shoe boxes that became the first album of photos and decks of cards were reused though without any, with the inscription by hand on a sword-sota saying 'this is a 4 of clubs. "
Drawers kept pieces left of clothespins and metal hook. Housed while waiting rights only pieces to your other half to become again a full clip.
I know what happened to us: we had a hard time declaring the death of our objects. Just as today the younger generation decide 'kill' just seem to stop serving those times were not to declare anything dead, or Walt Disney!
And when we sold ice cream in cups which became the base cover and they said: 'Eat ice cream and then pull the shot', we we said yes, but we minga that throw! We put them to live on the shelf of glasses and cups. Cans of peas and peaches turned pots, and even telephones. The first plastic bottles were transformed into ornaments of dubious beauty. The egg cups became deposits of watercolors, the tops of bottles in ashtrays, the first cans of beer corks holders and expected to find a bottle.
And bite me for not making a parallel between the values \u200b\u200bthat are discarded and those preservábamos. Ah! I do not! I'm dying to say that today not only appliances are disposable, which also marriage and even friendship are disposable.
but will not make the recklessness of comparing objects with people.
bite me not to speak of identity is lost, the collective memory to be pulling from the past ephemeral. I will not do. I will not mix the issues, I will not say that the perennial have become outdated and obsolete as did perennial. I will not say that the elderly are death states are just beginning to fail in their duties, the spouses are exchanged for newer models, that people who lack any function they are discriminated against or who value the beautiful , shiny, sticker hair and glamorous.
This is only a story that speaks of diapers and phones. Otherwise, if you mix it things would have to seriously consider delivering to the 'witch' as \u200b\u200bpart payment of a lady with fewer miles and a new function. But I am slow to travel the world for replacement and run the risk that the 'witch' and hand me win let me be the one given. "
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