J. DOMINGO GOMEZ ROJAS :  Working Class Poems

Today the task is talk about the greatest Chilean of all time.  This is exercise I consider very pompous because it stands out only a minuscule figure inside of a giant historical period. I consider that any me or women is product of his context and the collective action of their pairs.

However if I should remember someone I tell the story of José Domingo Gomez Rojas as a way to make known his life.

José Domingo Gomez Rojas is marked for his terrible death in the decades of 20’s in Santiago but he has a wonderful experience behind this success. He was a young anarchist poetry, who he participates in many syndicalist and artist circles. His publication Rebeldìas LÍricas is loaded of love and compromise with the struggle of the Chilean working class. He understood his art as a form to express the suffering of the people and a little contribution to the liberation.

But he didn’t stay at the letters; she was active member in the student circles of the anarchist generation of the FECH and in the process of change of the Constitution in 1924. For me,  he combinated being a letter’s man with being an action’s man. The myth tells that he climbed to a streetlight during a strike in Alameda and he gave a speech of one hour, inflaming to assistants.

Finally, I was arrested by police and he was tortured since the madness. Later of this episode he was sent to a psychiatric center where he died insane a years after.

If he would live, I think that I don’t ask him anything, all the answers are in his actions and his poems. 

A interesting link to know more: http://grupogomezrojas.org/

 

It’s difficult to choose one of the numerous gifts that many people  had gave me along  my life because if I remembered,  I always have had a present to Christmas, My birthday, the Children’s Day, etc. So, there are many occasions where I can choose.  Well, but you always have in the memory a special opportunity. I at least have two unforgettable presents.

The first, my fathers gave me in a day of summer  when I was six year. 

This day, I were at the garden, playing in the grass or be around. My mom is approached to me and she say that the next month we –with my uncle, my aunt and a cousin- are going to go to Cuba for three weeks. For me, this information was beautifully impressive. I didn’t  anything about where or what was Cuba but it sounds extremely entertaining -for a Little boy- and I was so  glad. As we can see, the trips are very relevant for me.

The second gift  was a wonderful surprise. When I was twelve. I asked to Christmas a swimming pool to cool down in the hot summer with friends. I didn’t have any expectant around this request because it was a enormous present for a small garden.

 The Christmas passed  unnoticed but It didn’t matter, I received many entertaining gifts.

But the next morning, when I woke up and I went down stairs I founded a giant assembled swimming pool in the garden and my fathers so exhausted next to it. This day I stayed –easily- six hours at the water.

A Comment of Mark Pagel: How Language Transformed Humanity

The presentacion of  Mr. Pagel deals with the trouble of how we interpret the polemic topic of the lenguaje in the human evolution and particulary inside the Social Sciences.

I think the author introduces important points in the discussion about the social role of language and its power to construct reality. But I desagree with the form to define the lenguaje. He only understand the lenguaje as a fonetic/writing expression but he doesn't consider the no-verbal lenguaje that it is  utilized by animals as gestures or chemical manifestations. I consider the lenguage as a exchange of information in diferentes ways.

Also I think that Pagel starts his tesis around a myth: the learning social is a exclusively skill of the human being. This is false. Ethologists have been demostrated that Big Primates can imitate and learn actions of their pairs. So, I feel that Pagel dont take in count the process more biological as a point important and  his analysis is according anthropocentric criteria.

Nevertheless, I agree that the language constructs identity, being  very evocative the interpretation about the passage of the Babel's Tower in the Bible.

Finally, I take conscience that this tool can transformed our conditions and transform reality only with a sound but I totally desagree with the option to create a language in common for all the world, because this process supressed all the nuances  and forms of expresion diverse that each comunity have to name and create thier his enviroment social.