In defending the past
Nega, a singer from South Chikos, wrote that childhood is a “small emotional homeland,” which as we age, tended to idealize our experiences of both children and young people. They themselves sing, both from then on and from healthy play, both from before and from real life, of a real world in which I was the protagonist, young and beautiful. We came to defend anything to keep that patriotic steam safe, from the Comecon to the cartoons we saw on Sundays in the morning. Whatever the objective quality of what we consumed or did, we want to stay invariable, as we left it, because it's the only way back. Future generations will always lack something to be authentic.
Maybe it's a normal process, instinctive resistance. We all want handles, rituals, nostalgia, repetition of things, houses that make us feel safe. The question is whether we know what we are defending when we defend our emotional homelands. To see if we are able and willing to see and question the ideologies that underpin that homeland.
For example, if we believe that a change is “forced” or “artificial”, we should dare to explain what is for us “natural” and why. Suppose the participation of women in the public square. A cultural initiative of women is artificial during the holidays of your people, it smells like a place. It is natural that in 50 years male programs have been organized, because it is known that they do not come because they are men, but because they are luminous and puros.Dice “natural” beings because saying “I and I as I” is too high.
Now the debate in Enegarren arises with a couple of audiovisual productions. Rings of power and mermaid. The supposedly passionate Lord of the Rings and Disney begin to crumble when the protagonists become black actors. Older people are the ones who complain, of course, the ones who see their white childhood under threat. There have never been black mermaids, let alone black elf. That is not natural. In the fantastic stories it is said that the natural thing is that all the honest and victorious characters are white, because we pick it up in childhood, as well as Jesus Christ and Cleopatra are soft and blue in our eyes, because we and our racist emotional patriotic suits us. Let us think about what we really want to protect and reject under the excuse of the past.
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