Automatically translated from Basque, translation may contain errors. More information here. Elhuyarren itzultzaile automatikoaren logoa

Virtual gardens

Antton Olariaga

The dog looks like the owner. Gardens too. One in a backyard, between cements, has filled paint jars, cubes, donkeys and planted pumpkins, tomatoes, capuchin, flowers of different colors mixed. On the other side of the fence that separates from the side patio, on a minimalist terrace, a sun lounger, a book on a table. The neighbor has put him in a giant ceramic pot, which he seems to paint, a giant cacti. Plants have their arms twisted, as if someone had twisted them. The first gardener doesn't know what to do with his life, he's trying a new trade, he knows a lot of things, but he thinks it doesn't work at all. The other designs event-design for Daimler or Mercedens, in order to design events.

My relatives know that I had to break my head with the issue of the possible professions I could have. And as I walked, with the feeling that everything was going wrong, that the great zucchini harvest had saved me. Something planted in my window bearing fruit!

A garden can help us stay well. Like nothing happens. But outside the walls around us, there's a hell.

Over 20 years ago, I read a column by Antonio Gala: Mental garden. As you can see, I have not forgotten it. We all have a garden, he said. Thanks to him, I had my first garden: in the head. I represented a wilderness garden, report, wet, with spruce herbs, lemons, sun flowers and black cherries stuffed with kisses hanging from the branches. A living and fantastic garden. I thought such gardens were necessary inside my head. The outside world cannot be persecuted when it is suffocating to protect itself.

But the mental gardens of Gala were opposite: the reality, the wild, placed it outside and inside the garden walls, the unnatural, the domesticated artificiality.

I wanted a place of escapism. A fiction in the head. But escapism makes more sense. Trump does it in a madman: surrounded by walls, and leaving out both migrants and climate changes. Trump wants to fortify himself outside the world. In an original Eden.

I'm at the table of those who are sitting between the tomatoes. The cactus in sight. In a garden that's not mine, but I envy. And migration has, of course, entered the conversation. Get into conversations. We have tried to return the Abstumpfung:L’hébet has come out. The Basque country is quite good, it shows the process: creation. Today we have all heard that migration is related to climate change. That there are fewer and fewer habitable plots. But we think we can hold a couple more degrees, because no one knows what to do when the intellectuals are gone. And about one of the men who are sitting at the table, his wife said over and over again, Joch, he was an academic ... Before I went home, I finally asked, in what area is it academic. It says it comes from sociology, but it moves away from it. That now earns money with something specific: In IT with information technologies. Sociology is nothing. The population has the opportunity to be trained in highly specialized techniques or to learn professions that will soon be replaced by robots.

When I think that gardens are also going to grow according to the algorithms, I've had a red poppy that emerged a month ago from a hole between the cobblestones. I was amazed. Where had I come from?

Bidali zure iritzi artikuluak iritzia@argia.eus helbide elektronikora

ARGIAk ez du zertan bat etorri artikuluen edukiarekin. Idatzien gehienezko luzera 4.500 karakterekoa da (espazioak barne). Idazkera aldetik gutxieneko zuzentasun bat beharrezkoa da: batetik, ARGIAk ezin du hartu zuzenketa sakona egiteko lanik; bestetik, egitekotan edukia nahi gabe aldatzeko arriskua dago. ARGIAk azaleko zuzenketak edo moldaketak egingo dizkie artikuluei, behar izanez gero.


You are interested in the channel: Iritzia
In the future also in favour of mountains
The threats of about twenty years ago return to the mountains of Gipuzkoa, and not to the extent that it is, but in greater size and quantity. These projects, some of which have already been built, such as the Zubieta incinerator, are located in the countryside or on the... [+]

Living in multilingualism: minority languages strengthen us

September 26 is European Day of Languages, which should be an important day for vasco-speakers. We have a lot to celebrate, the same thing we have to denounce many others. But I have decided to talk about what we have to celebrate today and to claim the strength that this... [+]


Tudela sludges, a clear example of what should not be done

August is the holiday month for many people, including those who rule. And yet it is common to take advantage of the month of August to deal with some issues without much noise, albeit of great importance.

This is what is happening with the project to centralize sludge... [+]


2024-09-25 | Aingeru Epaltza
How many?

"How many are you going to do in Basque in 2075? ". The article just published by Kike Amonarriz in the press has an overwhelming title. Before in Euskal Herria, a question of this kind has been asked in Catalonia. Joan M. The sociolinguistionist Tolosarra awake wanted to share... [+]


Undertake and continue

Euskaltzaindia's motto is "ekin eta jarrai" ("ekin eta jarrai"), the outlawing of Euskaltzaindia. I don't know why the Academy wasn't outlawed, all three words appeared on its logo. The allegations have been made with less - and (those of one age remember the cassette of The Mondragon... [+]


Why be ashamed?

Are we running out of shame? This is the diagnosis of several authors today. Is there no longer a look that can embarrass us? Another thing that Jean-Paul Sartre described in 1943 around shame is that on the other side of the lock, with the eye stuck in the key slot, a person is... [+]


2024-09-25 | Bea Salaberri
Deleting toponyms

The problem of the afrancession of the names of the places of Euskal Herria is not only due to the lack of consideration of the language in the signaling panels, but also to the execution of a decision on the domiciliation that was taken a few years ago.

Ultimately, the... [+]


The risks of Salami's tactic

For the powers, the salami tactic is attractive. It consists of cutting steaks progressively. With the enlargement of NATO, violations of international law, regime changes and the international proliferation of its military bases, the United States reduced the security and... [+]


Technology
Thank you

On this rainy Sunday, we are responsible for the fate of people living in disquiet at the various conflicts that exist in the world. By far, it seems that we cannot be freed from the hands of many rulers acting towards power. Many human beings live in the world with the... [+]


2024-09-25 | Ula Iruretagoiena
Territory and architecture
Class list

The first of September, releases, novelties and releases: new case and notebook, first meeting with the members of the group for the courses and/or activities to which it is appointed, a wide range of activities in the advertising pages where you can complete the course agenda,... [+]


Hysterical materialism
They can't learn Basque

She is a mother of Peru and could not start learning Euskera from scratch, as we have read in the newspapers (it was a lie): here perhaps yes, because here the city council guarantees that right (Hernani). If he comes to me at the end of the course (as they have come to me),... [+]


2024-09-23 | Iñaki Lasa Nuin
Autumn does not envy spring

If we were to ask which of the four concerts they love most is that of the “four seasons” of Vivaldi, the answers would give them on an equal footing, half the spring and the other half the fall. However, the balance would be made in favour of spring, perhaps because it was... [+]


Against the normalization of Zionism, Boikota Noari!

With this article, the BDS movement wants to make a public boycott of the event to be held on 24 September at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. In it, they will have the presence of the renowned Zionist artist, Noa, who will present his last record work.

When, in the context of the... [+]


2024-09-20 | Josu Iraeta
(1978-2024)

Summer has taken its steps and the festive atmosphere has weakened. We are now faced with the needs that we have left behind and, once again, the right reasons must be given to Basque society.

The first contacts seem to be trying to pave the way for the political environment,... [+]


Eguneraketa berriak daude