Skip to main content

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type o...

Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm



Gracias A La Vida

 


Haydée Mercedes Sosa, sometimes known as La Negra, was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout Latin America and many countries outside the region. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of El nuevo cancionero. Wikipedia




Sólo le pido a Dios (in English: I only ask of God) is a famous protest song, written by Argentine singer-songwriter León Gieco


Sólo Le Pido a Dios

Vamos a cantar todos juntos, ¡gracias!
¡Otra! (ahora)
¡Vamos! (ahora vamos a cantar todos)
¡Todos juntos por favor!
¡Gracias!, ¡muchas gracias!
Solo le pido a Dios
Que el dolor no me sea indiferente
Que la reseca muerte no me encuentre
Vacía y sola sin haber hecho lo suficiente
Solo le pido a Dios
Que lo injusto no me sea indiferente
Que no me abofeteen la otra mejilla
Después que una garra me arañe esta suerte
Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente
Solo le pido a Dios
Que el engaño no me sea indiferente
Si un traidor puede más que unos cuantos
Que esos cuantos no lo olviden fácilmente
Solo le pido a Dios
Que el futuro no me sea indiferente (¡gracias, Chile!)
Desahuciado está el que tiene que marchar
A vivir una cultura diferente
Solo le pido a Dios
Que la guerra no me sea indiferente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente
Es un monstruo grande y pisa fuerte
Toda la pobre inocencia de la gente


ALL THAT I ASK OF YOU GOD

.
ALL THAT I ASK OF YOU GOD
IS THAT THE SUFFERING DOESN’T LEAVE ME INDIFFERENT
THAT DEATH WON’T FIND ME, MY BODY DRY AND ROUGH
ALONE AND EMPTY, AND NOT HAVING DONE ENOUGH
.
ALL THAT I ASK OF YOU GOD
IS THAT INJUSTICE DOESN’T LEAVE ME INDIFFERENT
THAT THEY WON’T SLAP ME AGAIN ACROSS THE FACE
AND MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I AM IN THE CLAWS OF FATE
.
ALL THAT I ASK OF YOU GOD
IS THAT THE WAR DOESN’T LEAVE ME INDIFFERENT
IT’S A MONSTER STAMPING ON HUMANITY
CRUSHING THE INNOCENT, PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME
.
ALL THAT I ASK OF YOU GOD
IS THAT CORRUPTION DOESN’T LEAVE ME INDIFFERENT
THE TRAITORS MAY BE FEW, BUT WHAT THEY LEFT
HERE FOR THE MASSES TO REPAY, WE CAN’T FORGET
.
ALL THAT I ASK OF YOU GOD
IS THAT THE FUTURE DOESN’T LEAVE ME INDIFFERENT
DESPAIR IS WHAT CAN MAKE YOU WANT TO LEAVE
YOUR OWN CULTURE, EVEN YOUR OWN COUNTRY


Popular Posts