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Next Heads of State


29 October 2021 - 05:44
Last updated: 07:45

It happens to anyone, as he gains years, that the vast roads of yesteryear are narrowed, and many circular truths of yesteryear are the subject of reflection. So it's no wonder that, every now and then, when the writer is in front of the blank page, he feels naked. It experiences a certain vacuum and doubts about what it has to do. Once again, honestly expel what it contains, expressing what it sees and listens, betting on what it believes, or, always from the perspective of reality, cultivating creativity, fiction and metaphor.

The protagonist of this story, based on real facts, is a teenager who has just begun to know his faculty, who questions everything, including himself, who intends to configure and develop his ideas. It tries to understand without intermediaries the heartbeats of the world around it, without manipulation.

This adolescent perceives that the society in which he participates, the blurred and collaborative vision of political and religious organizations, even if it is visible, depends on the effects of a harsh and harsh confrontation, to which both grandfather and father have referred on many occasions, and that he has not yet adequately metabolized the practical consequences.

"An Euskaldun college teenager, sympathetic and intelligent, takes care of yourself and the best of the money for you"

He does not feel capable of properly measuring the consequences of the unfinished Republican and Abertzale idea defended by hundreds of thousands of Basques such as his grandfather and father. But he knows that Franco and his Basque and non-Basque “collaborators” imposed fear and rapidity during the long Franco regime. That's what sparked her father's struggle.

With the intention of knowing the truth to immerse oneself in the past, he sees that while in the Basque political class some face the current “democratic ramification” of Franco, which has already been 75 years, others resign and recognize the discriminatory treatment that the Government of Madrid gives to the defeated “still”, when they are not obliged to ask for help. .

A university adolescent who lives between two worlds with different versions, objectives and interests, but who are forced to live together rationally. In any case, in the search for “intelligent truth”, its radicality recognizes that it is difficult to develop its life project – being true to itself – with the social majority that surrounds it, as well as with the current family generation.

He knows that the two generations who created the current family nucleus were defeated and imprisoned, and that they were treated by the defeated. Also, among their descendants are those who, in the name of peace and coexistence, have been welcomed into that regime, but not without humiliation.

It's an option, another option, it would be worse to be the only one. The university teenager, while remembers with envy the attitude of his grandfather and his father, clearly sees how others limit themselves to dreaming about the benefits of life.

The adolescent protagonist of the story, when reflecting, realizes that it is difficult for today, to intelligently bet on a cause that needs more strength. She wants to know who she is, what she really looks like and where she is, and nobody wants me to tell her. She has to find her alone.

He knows perfectly well that the reference is his grandfather. Remembering his grandfather's memory, he sees a righteous and honored man, immersed in a generation who was forced to defend his home, his family, his people and his country, but defeated and frustrated.

This young college girl is certainly intelligent, but young and sometimes insecure. Perhaps, the fact of having been trained in religious centers leads to it being a little contradictory and – as the owner of the brain that acts as a sponge – is sometimes considered quite “permeable”.

In terms of their training, they have never had any problems in combining studies with sport, which gives them some security in order to achieve the academic objectives without too much effort.

There are other problems. He doesn't want to be a spectator of what others interpret. She has decided to be the protagonist. He wants to make an effort on those who for decades continue to preach “continence” and the adaptation to the imposed reality in order to place it on a level of superiority.

The college teenager wants to get there, doesn't give up. He doesn’t want to be “practical,” because he doesn’t want to live without real criteria and dignity. It does not accept concerted dignity, it seeks truth, reality. The real truth.

He is young, very young, but the contradictions of the system show him that the “official reality” is invented by the winners and that they use it as it suits them. Hence the consequences. Political, social and economic implications. And those conclusions have been decisive, not only to define the grandfather's and father's past, but also to guide the present and future of many generations of Basques.

Since he was at the University, he has been very attentive to the professor of philosophy. It resembles your affection and shows your will to help you untie all knots. But it's also terrible when he says looking in the eyes of all the students. “You are the new generation of leaders, you have to fly, burn, but build the country for all.”

The adolescent understands more than the professor’s “inner message”, will they be able to do it?

An Euskaldun college teenager, sympathetic and intelligent, takes care of yourself and the best suertes for you.

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