Tuesday, August 24, 2021

EL ESTADO Y EL CUERPO (THOREAU)

 

Alexandros Marinos
@alexandrosM
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Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must help itself; do as I do. It is not worth the while to snivel about it. I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

HDT

El Estado nunca se enfrenta voluntariamente con la conciencia intelectual o moral de un hombre sino con su cuerpo, con sus sentidos.No se arma de honradez o inteligencia sino que recurre a la simple fuerza física.Yo no he nacido para ser violentado.Seguiré mi propio camino.Veremos quién es el más fuerte.¿Qué fuerza tiene la multitud?.Sólo pueden obligarme aquellos que obedecen a una ley superior a la mía.Me obligan a ser como ellos.Yo no oigo que a los hombres les obliguen a vivir de tal o cual manera las masas.¿Qué vida sería ésa?,Cuando veo que un gobierno me dice:"La bolsa o la vida", ¿por qué voy a apresurarme a darle mi dinero?.Puede que se halle en grandes aprietos y no sepa qué hacer.Yo no puedo hacer nada por él.Debe salvarse a sí mismo como hago yo.No merece la pena lloriquear.Yo no soy el responsable del buen funcionamiento de la máquina de la sociedad.Yo no soy el hijo del maquinista.
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Si una planta no puede vivir de acuerdo con su naturaleza muere, y lo mismo le ocurre al hombre.

HDT

Cada uno debe ser-por lo menos- dueño de su propia muerte. La integridad depende de eso.

- ¿Usted sabe lo que es la integridad?

-Hubiera usado la integridad para no matar a gente inocente”

(Ricardo Piglia, “El camino de Ida”.Editorial Anagrama)

https://thoreaucastellano.blogspot.com/2015/01/este-es-tu-texto.html




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