When social and economic models fail, we have to look for different ones. The best models are those that are based on life itself. Humanity is not the digestive system of the social body. It is not only excessive consumption.
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Respect needs to be redefined. Until now it has been a hierarchical, objectal and abstract respect. Respect for elders, for institutions, things, laws, etc. Largely a forced respect. It is necessary a respect for people, for human beings, for everything
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The world of objects, the objectal world, is meaningful for the human being when it furthers human wellbeing and human evolution. If the objectal world helps human beings in their growing happiness and their development, it is a beloved world,
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It is quite tempting to confuse tranquility with peace, material destruction with violence, internal discomfort with external affront. If one gives in to these confusions, nothing happens outside of losing a center of gravity that is only affirmed when one
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Fernando Aranguiz – Portland, OR October 2, 2019Translation to English by Trudi Richards Trust When the institutions that are a society’s pillars are not perceived as such, that is the beginning of that society’s disintegration. Science is no longer credible,
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These stories were written in the last fifteen years and in general they are about the theme of intuitions and internal realities that are not always visible, but are undoubtedly true. Truths that push us in a profound and human
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This book is their most recent collaboration, Fernando as a poet, Rafael as a draftsman, with a production that has been giving informally for the last 21 years or so. Each one in their own field, and in this book
Read moreIn Everything That Exists, There Is a Plan: Part I – The Master Game
Fernando Aranguiz published his amazing novel Aniversario in the original Spanish in 2010. Beginning with the story of the author’s early experiences in the humanist movement in Chile in the 1970s, the novel goes on to develop an intricate
Read moreInvisible pero cierto
Estos cuentos han sido escritos en los últimos 15 años y en general tratan el tema de las intuiciones y de las realidades internas que no son siempre visibles, pero que no dejan de ser ciertas. Verdades que empujan en
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Introducción Por lo general cuando uno mira hacia atrás, y contempla los acontecimientos que han moldeado nuestra existencia, se tiende a hacerlo con un dejo de nostalgia y con una suerte de romanticismo a veces necesario para compensar por una
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