TOM JOAD "As uvas da ira" ( The grapes of Wrath") & The ghost of Tom Joad. Springsteen

 Tom Joad: I been thinking about us, too, about our people living like pigs and good rich land layin' fallow. Or maybe one guy with a million acres and a hundred thousand farmers starvin'. And I been wonderin' if all our folks got together and yelled...

Ma Joad: Oh, Tommy, they'd drag you out and cut you down just like they done to Casy.

Tom Joad: They'd drag me anyways. Sooner or later they'd get me for one thing if not for another. Until then...

Ma Joad: Tommy, you're not aimin' to kill nobody.

Tom Joad: No, Ma, not that. That ain't it. It's just, well as long as I'm an outlaw anyways... maybe I can do somethin'... maybe I can just find out somethin', just scrounge around and maybe find out what it is that's wrong and see if they ain't somethin' that can be done about it. I ain't thought it out all clear, Ma. I can't. I don't know enough.

Ma Joad: How am I gonna know about ya, Tommy? Why they could kill ya and I'd never know. They could hurt ya. How am I gonna know?

Tom Joad: Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then...

Ma Joad: Then what, Tom?

Tom Joad: Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.

Ma Joad: I don't understand it, Tom.
 
Tom Joad: Me, neither, Ma, but - just somethin' I been thinkin' about.






Now Tom Said; "Ma, whenever ya see a cop beatin' a guy Wherever a hungry new born baby cries Wherever there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air Look for me ma I'll be there Wherever somebody's srtugglin' for a place to stand For a decent job or a helpin' hand Wherever somebody is strugglin' to be free Look in their eyes ma, You'll see me And the highway is alive tonight Nobody's foolin' nobody is to where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of ToJoad

Grandes almacenes y revolución social

Capitalismo. Crises cíclicas

 

¡Tantos anos explicando que o capitalismo é un sistema económico que xenera cíclicamente as crises ( o asunto dos Ciclos Kondratieff, Jutglar...)!
Agora con esta imaxe fica todo dito.

Utopía

...círculo político-económico

  Desde palabrasmaldichas

 

   Lo que distingue a la tiranía global actual es que no tiene rostro. No hay Führer ni Stalin ni Cortés. Su manera de funcionar varía de un continente a otro, y la historia local modifica sus modos, pero sus pautas generales son las mismas, una pauta de comportamiento circular.

   La división entre los pobres y los relativamente ricos se transforma en un abismo. Se echan por tierra las limitaciones y recomendaciones tradicionales. El consumismo consume toda capacidad de cuestionamiento. El pasado se hace obsoleto. En consecuencia, la gente pierde su personalidad, su identidad, y entonces han de buscar y encontrar un enemigo a fin de definirse. El enemigo al margen de cuál sea su etnia o su religión siempre se encuentra entre los mas pobres. Ahí es donde esa pauta circular se transforma en un círculo vicioso.

   Económicamente, el sistema produce, junto con riqueza, cada vez más pobreza, más y más familias sin techo, al tiempo que desde una perspectiva política promueve ideologías que articulan y justifican la exclusión y la eliminación posterior de las hordas de nuevos pobres.

   Este nuevo círculo político-económico es el que fomenta esa constante capacidad humana para la crueldad que termina borrando la imaginación.

JOHN BERGER, El cuaderno de Bento, Alfaguara, 2012, p.85.

 

JOHN BERGER, El cuaderno de Bento, Alfaguara, 2012, p.85.