"The first war of football and other wars of the poor" by Ryszard Kapuściński
Notes of a journalist, foreign correspondent. Restless, ready to go to places where people are fleeing. Ready to deal with extreme situations, risking their lives, driven by the record, the desire to know and make known. From Africa, Latin America to be a witness to wars, strikes state, disaster, witness of history.
Ryszard Kapuściński goes beyond the appearances of the important political figures and look for their fears and hopes. Focuses on the poor, always losers in every war, their dignity and historical events that often overwhelm them and lead them to death.
With clear words describing the people he comes in contact and through which he tries to find the truth of what happens. Whether heads of state, peasants, criminals, employees, colleagues or saints, look, listen and tell them how to seek in each sense of humanity, aware that good and evil, often inextricably intertwined.
Sections collecting thoughts for a book that will be. A diary of those who have too little time to talk about himself and his emotions as always on the run to tell others to kill and silence in the great history.
"Cisza (silent). The people who write history books devoted too much attention to events known and studied too little significant periods of silence. Lacks the infallible intuition of which is provided with every mother who feels a sudden silence in the nursery. A mother knows that this silence signifies something bad, something that hides and rushes to intervene because he feels danger in the air. The same applies to the silence in the history and politics. Silence is a sign of misfortune, often with a crime. It 'a political tool just as the click of a weapon or the speech made at a rally. Tyrants and occupiers need silence to hide their actions. Tenessero look at how to silence all colonial, with as much discretion to the Holy Inquisition worked, how to avoid any advertising Leonidas Trujillo. On
were full of prisoners it will always be silence. The government of Somoza, silence on the government of Duvalier, silence. How much effort devoted to each of these dictators maintain an ideal regime of silence that continuously seeks to upset someone! How many victims in this, and that price! Silence has its laws and its requirements. Silence want the camps to be constructed in the wilderness. The silence needs of a vast police apparatus and an army of informants, claims that the enemies of silence and suddenly disappear without a trace. Would that no item (the prosecution, protest, indignation) disturb his peace. Wherever they raise a voice, the silence strikes without mercy, and restore the previous state, the state of silence.
Silence has the option to spread: that's why we use terms such as "in tune was silent" or "dropped a general silence." Silence can also take a weight: for this reason we speak of "weight of silence" as we talk about the weight of solids and liquids.
The word "silence" is associated with a preference for words like "grave" (Dead silence), "death" (a deathly silence), "underground" (the silent underground). These are not random associations.
Today we talk a lot to combat noise, and would be more important in the fight against silence. The purpose of noise abatement is the peace of the nerves, the struggle against silence the preservation of human life. None justify or defend those who make more noise, while the person introducing the silence in their own country is protected from the apparatus repressive. To combat this silence is so difficult.
would be interesting to investigate to what extent the global systems of mass media work in the service information and the extent to which the service of silence and stillness. It 's more what they say or what is not spoken? We can easily count those working in the field of communication. And if we were to count those who work to keep silent? Which group would be larger? ".
Ryszard Kapuściński from" The War of the football and other wars of the poor "and. Universale Economica Feltrinelli.
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