"Upside Down. The School of the World Backwards" (1998). Eduardo Galeano. AFTER Eduardo Galeano is a born Montevideo in 1940 with a long career in journalism, winning on several occasions. This book aims and succeeds in proving that the world is "backwards" and that human behavior does not follow the logic of "human" or even the "animal" in thousands of cases, rewarding the "bad" and punishing " good ", which should do something, do just the opposite, the value is underrated and absurdity is adored ...
The book is a guide to the atrocities that mankind is capable of committing. Of course, there is a complete guide, because it would require, unfortunately quite a few books like that. It is, in short, a guide to learn how to maintain the "world upside down."
can give the impression that the author is a little bit exaggerated and biased. However, before making such a claim must make an examination of personal bias, because before the judge is good and necessary to take the place of all parties and especially for those who suffer most to understand their suffering.
the beginning of the book presents some words of Al Capone, one of the most famous gangsters of all U.S. History: "Today, people no longer respect anything. Before, we put on a pedestal the virtue, honor, truth and the law ... Corruption is endemic in American life today. Where no other law is obeyed, corruption is the only law. Corruption is undermining this country. Virtue, honor and the law have vanished from our lives. "
According Galeano" The world economy is the most efficient expression of organized crime. International agencies that control the currency and credit trade practice terrorism against poor countries and the poor of all countries, with professional coolness and impunity that humiliate the best tirabombas. (...) The gunmen who rent to kill realized at retail plan, fulfilling the same task on a large scale, decorated generals for crimes that rise to the level of military glory. (...) The most fiercely rapists nature and violate human rights, never go to prison. They have keys to the prisons. In the world as it is, upside-down world, the countries that guard the peace are those who make more weapons and more weapons to sell to other countries, the most prestigious banks are the most drug money washing and more money saved stolen, the most successful industries are the most poison the planet and saving the environment is the brightest business of the companies that kill it. Are worthy of impunity and greeting those who kill as many people in the shortest time, those who earn more money with less work and who exterminate as much of nature at the lowest cost. "
criticizes Eduardo Galeano lightness and partisanship with which the term is used "free trade".
This book argues that in many cases and in some countries the prisons are full of prisoners because they are poor or acts to which the Poverty pushes them, while those who maintain that poverty did not suffer conviction.
against the hypocrisy of rich countries blasts also, especially against the big arms dealers, mainly "America, Britain, France and Russia.
Chapter " Lessons from the vices useless "critical a world in which" The work is the most useless service. Chapter
"Lectures of impunity" will reveal some of the most outrageous of this world upside down.
In another chapter, "Impunity people hunters" , warns that "it is killing business shyly.
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Finally, the book claims" The right delirium, "the right to dream of a better world, though perhaps this is not possible. We can choose a few verses of that dream:
*" in no country will imprison boys who refuse to comply military service, but those who want to serve; "
*" Economists call the living to the level of consumption, or quality of life call the number of things, "
* "The world will not be at war against the poor, but against poverty, and the military industry will be forced to declare bankruptcy,"
* "no one will die of hunger because no one will die of indigestion,"
* "Street children are not treated like garbage, because there will be no street children,"
* "education will not be the privilege of those who can pay,"
* "The police will not be the curse of those who can not pay;"
* "justice and liberty, Siamese twins sentenced to live apart, will rejoin, very closely, back to back, "
*" The Church also another commandment, that he had forgotten God: "Love of nature, which forms part"; "
The book ends by saying that writing was completed in August 1998 and that what happens next just follow the news each day. And indeed, it is.
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