While I was sweeping my room, they built a wall in Calais. While I was singing at home, they decided to lock the door of Europe. While I was growing up, they prepared the new Europe made of concret and iron. While I was dreaming of a white christmas, they managed to turn Christmas time into the most lucrative trade It has ever existed. While they were teaching me to be obedient, I started to be blind. While they were scaring me by talking to me about hells and devils, I started to be a slave. While they were designing the main lines of the educational system, I became a product of their civilitation. And again, while I was sweeping my room, they arised a concret's wall in Tijuana, in Ceuta, in Greece... May be its because we priorize the shine of our houses that the walls are arising all over the world.
-You
are a ripping citizen, because you work in a bank -he told me. And I
believed in him. But while I was being happy by working in a bank,
some people were losing their houses because they had believed in
banks. Some people had been growing up with the credo I had learnt
too: being obedient, being scared by hells and devils, being a cute
slave of my perfect world, being a perfect product of this
civilitation... And all of them, like me, had been arising the sad
world of the walls and the iron.
When
someone talks to my daughter, she demurres, because she is a shy
girl, and because she has a special hint to sort people. Sometimes I
wonder why we lose our childish gifts. It is as if we got sick by
developing our animal pulses. It is as if we got mad by being adults.
It is as if it was necessary not to be humans to be survivours. The
eyes of children are so clear! They may be hard, or sored, or upset,
or even violent... but these eyes expresses what there is in their
heart. May be, they would arise a wall or a jail or a killing
machine... but if they understood the bad core of their acts, they
would cry and cry... and would change. Adults would hardly do it.
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