Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Photographing the world


Hello! Today I’m going to talk you about Photography. I think that photography is a very good way to express how everyone conceives world. I don’t have a camera, but my brother ussually lends me his camera. In the past, I used to take more photos.  The photos that I took in the past was published in Flickr.com.
I  prefer to watch photografies taken by other persons that taking photographies by my self. One of my favorites websites for this is Flickr.com. I used to explore this webside to find a lots of photos. I like ones which are a politic expression, for example, photos of strikes or popular sectors.  That is why this is one of my favorite photo


I found it in flickr, and I don’t know who take it exactly, but I know that is a men called Claudio Ortiz. In this photo It shows a man whit a child in his shoulders, which is probably his son. The child have a mapuche flag. It was taken at the "first of may strike", in this year. I like this photography because I think that represents a new popular movement, whit new generations and forces. Also, I like the light and the colours of the photo, and of all the photographies of this man in general.  
I think that photos like this are very important to break the mass media hegemony. It’s very important that every one document things that happen, to democratize this kind of expressions. Today, the mass media are dominated by persons who have economic power. That is why is very important create alternative media to brake his domination, being critic subjects in every aspect of our lifes.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Peadophile in Chilean church.

As we know, there are many cases of paedophile in our country, wich have been reported lately. About this, I think, first of all, that, dispite not all the priests are sexual abusers, the authority in the Chilean church and in the vaticano were aware about this situation.  The true is that, every man is guilty of charges must pay his debts, despite his occupation or job was “posted by god”. We can't denied that the subjects involved in this cases was children, wich could not resist to the power of adult people.
I think that the cause of the constant peadophilia in Chilean Church, is the power of this entity in the society and in the minds of people that conforms it. In the beginning of the history of chile, church had a great power in politics, in economics and social stuffs, legitimized with an ideology implanted in common sense of Chilean people. That is why people don’t want to believe that this cases are true, and they prefer to doubt the testimonies of people abused.

It's like all they beliefs of Christian people  felt off of a pedestal.
The worst thing is that people, despite they doubts about the moral authority of church, continue endorsing this kind of religion, and with this, its sick practices. Is more important to them have a hope of redemption that do justice?. That is the problem of naive consciousness, people believes in lies that hegemonic powers created to have people dominated. That is why the only solution to construct critic subject is education, wich destroys people's naivete.