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Profile of Homero Aridjis
How can we counteract violence, anger or [...]
Homero Aridjis: How can we counteract violence, anger or hatred? How can we counteract human being´s tendency to destruction, the inclination to commit a crime and his lack of love? How can we do it?
We have no right to consider a human being [...]
Homero Aridjis: We have no right to consider a human being as more valuable than other life forms, because other life forms have the right to share with us the life on Earth regrding the concepts "dignity" and "existencial equality".
What is after capitalism? A new humanism, [...]
Homero Aridjis: What is after capitalism? A new humanism, provided terrestrial ecosystems and living spheres will not be destroyed by then due to an unlimited avarice.
The economic globalization takes place on [...]
Homero Aridjis: The economic globalization takes place on its own way unaffecting democracies or dictatorships.
We can stop gang violence in the cities [...]
Homero Aridjis: We can stop gang violence in the cities motivating young people to seek education instead of killing each other. We must offer a real ethical education, without television and commercial manipulation, that treat a human being as a consumer instead of preparing him for a life in a society and in harmony with other citizens.
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The best way to use the trillion dollars a [...]
Homero Aridjis: The best way to use the trillion dollars a year, spent by the military of the United States and other nations would be to preserve the natural ecosystems of mankind on earth.
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The number of the civil war victims in the [...]
Homero Aridjis: The number of the civil war victims in the last hundred years rise in a drastic way because it grows continously in the same way like in the past. Until the beginning of history the principal war cictims has been civilians. Nothing has been changed.
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An economic system that doesn't damage the [...]
Homero Aridjis: An economic system that doesn't damage the human, animal or planet rights could be conceived with an protected ecologic system. Especially where the human, animal or planet rights are respected.
You cannot effect a corporate social [...]
Homero Aridjis: You cannot effect a corporate social responsibility while there is complicity inside the gouvernement and the corporation to exploit a human being. The composed values of citizens for a corporation aren't the moral values when this doesn't correspond to the commercial values.
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Unjust state systems, tribal traditions, [...]
Homero Aridjis: Unjust state systems, tribal traditions, imperial cicatrices and cultural problems make the developpement of the african states complex. Today, every african state is diferent and has a developpement in agreement with his own history and society.
How can decent people help each other while [...]
Homero Aridjis: How can decent people help each other while their leaders are self-serving and internatonaly divisive? Only with the aid of non-governmental organizations, of social self-management, of national and international movements appealing to conscience; only by means of accepting self-organization as an alternative to the self-serving governments.
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It is not only socially accepted to hoard [...]
Homero Aridjis: It is not only socially accepted to hoard wealth while so many live without basic needs, but it is also socially accepted to deprive ethnic groups, animals and plants from their natural ecosystems so that big corporations and important businessmen can make money and governments continue with their policies.
How would the world be today if the Africans [...]
Homero Aridjis: How would the world be today if the Africans were never brought to the Americas to be enslaved? We could also ask: How would the world be today if other human beings were never enslaved through tyrranical politics and economies? The history of slavery cannot be reduced to ethnical groups. It existed during the conquest and destruction of new lands of the so called new world or with other words the Americas.
It might become necessary to break the law [...]
Homero Aridjis: It might become necessary to break the law in order to defend a life, human values, nature and to ensure the safety of our planet Earth.
We could reconcile the universal human [...]
Homero Aridjis: We could reconcile the universal human rights, if these rights would not contradict in some cases the traditional or religious values. Very often human values differ from society to society and from religion to religion. For this reason it is very difficult to apply the human rights globally using an unilateral criterion.
Yes, there is something better than [...]
Homero Aridjis: Yes, there is something better than democracy: a respect for another life, a life motive that should be common to all people in every form of government.
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To know if there is a way to avoid innocent [...]
Homero Aridjis: To know if there is a way to avoid innocent victims when there are gravely changes and if there is a way that the united states and their prestige as the most powerful nation in the world exploit also the planet? Is it possible that sometimes power is abandoned? No, beaucause a power is replaced by other powers and the power of the United States would be replaced by the power of china or other countries in the world.
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I think that brands are more powerful than [...]
Homero Aridjis: I think that brands are more powerful than governments. Brands are not only better known than the presidents of the states, they are the icons of globalization and modern era.
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Why is an Iranian Nuclear bomb supposed to [...]
Homero Aridjis: Why is an Iranian Nuclear bomb supposed to be more dangerous than an American, Israeli or French? It could be answered with another question: What do you prefer: to be attacked by a dog or by a cat? The fact that a country, a nation has created a nuclear bomb doesn´t mean that we promote the proliferation of nuclear arms. It's enough that the nuclear weapons that already exist could destroy the world more than once, to also have a menace of fundamentalist nature. I believe that the production of nuclear arms must be stopped. The destruction has no nationality. Mankind must be respected and we should seek the destruction of mass destruction weapons, be it French, English, American, Israeli, Pakistani or Indian. I think that there is enough stupidity to have even more stupids, producing nuclear bombs.
This is a good question. There are too many [...]
Homero Aridjis: This is a good question. There are too many national and international laws, but we must obey one fundamental law - the law of life.
Quite often there is a close relation [...]
Homero Aridjis: Quite often there is a close relation between politics and violence, because in many cases politicians have the main responsibility for the violence in their country. Due to their obsession to stay in power, politicians violate human rights of the rest of the citizens and destroy the social peace.
The reason why the developed world enjoys [...]
Homero Aridjis: The reason why the developed world enjoys cheap products and at the same time criticizes China for its rapid industrialization because China destroys the environment and does not respect the human rights. China is the biggest exporter of plastic waste and useless products, and at the same time it destroys many local economies by inundating the markets with its cheap products.
The modern version of colonialism is an [...]
Homero Aridjis: The modern version of colonialism is an ecological colonialism, that deprives the Third world countries of natural resources and turns its inhabitants into outcasts of their living space.
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Very often the education is a shoe instead [...]
Homero Aridjis: Very often the education is a shoe instead of head. Like Ivan Nilish said, the education became an industry and a diploma is a product. Due to the exams the opportunism starts at the age of six. Nevertheless, when the child is not occupied with education than the child is occupied with television and products of consumption, that alienate him/her. The biggest aspiration of our time is to liberate the child in a cultural way and morally. Then we could enjoy a sane society with true human values from the beginning. Such would be a real education in order to enable a child to bloom having a human conscience, a respect for human rights and the rights of Nature.
Our wealth depends not only on the Third [...]
Homero Aridjis: Our wealth depends not only on the Third World being poor, but the Nature itself and all living creatures that share with us the living-space, contribute to our wealth.
We have no right to consider a human being [...]
Homero Aridjis: We have no right to consider a human being more valuable than other living beings. The others have the same right to a dignified, egalitarian existence in a society with ecological values. We have to respect all living beings which share with us terrestrial space.
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Women are still at a disadvantage in [...]
Homero Aridjis: Women are still at a disadvantage in comparison to men because they are discriminated not only by various societies but also by some religions. Women do not have the same opportunities to receive education or to get employed.
It is difficult to choose one single way in [...]
Homero Aridjis: It is difficult to choose one single way in order to condition our afflectation for the non-violent resistance or for the an armed struggle. We should not play with the language when we talk about a biodiversity of resistance. We should not compare the spheres of life with the armed fight, justifying it with words like "resistence", "aggression towards your next one" and "war".
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How big is our responsibility for AIDS in [...]
Homero Aridjis: How big is our responsibility for AIDS in Africa? We could also ask, how big is our responsibility for AIDS in Latin America. Why don´t we talk about other regions of the world that also suffer from this disease?
My heroes are the people of everyday life, [...]
Homero Aridjis: My heroes are the people of everyday life, many of them without name, and many of them without glory in history.
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On the contrary, I believe that there must [...]
Homero Aridjis: On the contrary, I believe that there must exist a limit to economic growth, that it must be regulated by the ecological balance.
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Not only technology is domesticating humans, [...]
Homero Aridjis: Not only technology is domesticating humans, but also television and consumer goods. Every day, man is more dependent from what he consumes in his everyday life, on the streets just as much as in his home, on his working places as well as in school.
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To obtain drinking water is unquestionable [...]
Homero Aridjis: To obtain drinking water is unquestionable and unnegotiable, provided by his governments and not bought commercially. Otherwise, the poor people and those who live in remote rural areas are discriminated, whose dependency on drinking water is enormous, but also those poor urban people, whose drinking water is contaminated by poisonous garbage and by bacteria. The new world is facing two big problems: the shortage of water and the contamination of water. This is the big challenge for the future generations, water.
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We are not prepared for the pending "Long [...]
Homero Aridjis: We are not prepared for the pending "Long Emergency", related with the shortage of petroleum, the destruction of the ecology, the climate change, poverty and global diseases. Future generations will simply not be able to understand our big frenzy of destruction.
Television is a very powerful communication [...]
Homero Aridjis: Television is a very powerful communication tool which we use to distribute information of little importance, because in the era of simplification, the medium is not in the hands of human beings, but in those of the corporations.
We allow genetically engineered food knowing [...]
Homero Aridjis: We allow genetically engineered food knowing their effects and their consequences. This is because of the corporations that control the agriculture in the name of the economic profit, and not in the name of preservation of nature neither of the health of human beings.
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The individual conduct is important to stop [...]
Homero Aridjis: The individual conduct is important to stop global warming because that way it encourages more and more people to act the same way. If every person resolved to do something against global warming then we could change things, change the effects of the climatic change in the mountains, the sea and the ecosystems on the coasts. Individual conduct is imperative. Everyone should think about how he contributes to that warming by his own acting.
The question is correct. But if some [...]
Homero Aridjis: The question is correct. But if some countries have preceded the United States in the immoderate use of energy and consumption of resources, we don't need other countries to worsen things.
How can architecture better serve the [...]
Homero Aridjis: How can architecture better serve the social, econmic, political and environmental concerns of our present and future? You could ask the same referring to poetry, painting and music.
The future I would like to see is a future [...]
Homero Aridjis: The future I would like to see is a future where vegetable, animal and human creatures can exist under the same circumstances and with the same possibilities to survive.
Mass-media offers us the opportunity to get [...]
Homero Aridjis: Mass-media offers us the opportunity to get information about what happens all around the world. It tells us what is up-to-date. But on the other hand, mass-media can also be a problem, because they are giving information to us manipulating the truth and mass-media also leads to consumer behaviour.
Will it someday be possible to connect a [...]
Homero Aridjis: Will it someday be possible to connect a human brain to machines , to computers? You could ask the same about if it will be possible to connect humans to a gasoline tube?
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How come we still feel alone if there are so [...]
Homero Aridjis: How come we still feel alone if there are so many people in the world? Because the multitude is no company for the existential loneliness.
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My tree is the tree of life, which posesses [...]
Homero Aridjis: My tree is the tree of life, which posesses all names and none. It grows everywhere, in the inside and in the outside. It can be visible or invisible.
Consumption has an essential influece on [...]
Homero Aridjis: Consumption has an essential influece on personality, on our way of life, our thoughts and the culture of a nation. Often we end up talking as television wants us to, by watching publicity and the range of goods. We end up being creatures of the corporations and our myths end up being myths of the civilized society, the ones they want to sell us.
Can a person be so perceptive that he/she [...]
Homero Aridjis: Can a person be so perceptive that he/she sees him-/herself as part of the planet? Yes, each person forms part of a mental miniplanet, the one he/she inherited from his/her parents and the one he or she creates everyday by his/her own. That is the planet.
It is more difficult to get drinking water [...]
Homero Aridjis: It is more difficult to get drinking water because the governments have handed the water business over to the corporations. Instead of making it available to the citizens they diminished its quality, they made it dirtier and more dangerous. The distribution processes also contribute, because it is more difficult to get drinking water than a can of Coca Cola, although it should be the contrary because water is an unquestionable and non-negotiable human right.
What can we learn from Africa, but also, [...]
Homero Aridjis: What can we learn from Africa, but also, what can we learn from Latin America, Asia, Europe and even from Belgium?
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Today's most important unreported story is [...]
Homero Aridjis: Today's most important unreported story is the global war against animals.
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How can life get more and more stressful if [...]
Homero Aridjis: How can life get more and more stressful if we invent more and more things to save time? Because consumerism is not happiness; it only represents the material satisfaction. And the systems for time saving do not necessarily affect our happiness; the parameters for being happy are elsewhere.
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The world's resources should be managed by [...]
Homero Aridjis: The world's resources should be managed by human beings with conscience, reason, and ethic.
Considering the question 'Can we still be [...]
Homero Aridjis: Considering the question 'Can we still be indigenous in the twenty-first century?', another question comes to my mind. Can we still be human beings in the 21st century? Can we keep on maintaining our humanity the same way we inherited it from our parents and we must bequeath it to our children?
The genetic engineering that should be [...]
Homero Aridjis: The genetic engineering that should be allowed to correct defects and imperfections is the one which would allow us not to have that many villains in the world.
When it comes to inform, how can we decide [...]
Homero Aridjis: When it comes to inform, how can we decide if we manufacture a truth or a fact? I could add: a lie or a dream.
Love to the neighbour, love to nature, and [...]
Homero Aridjis: Love to the neighbour, love to nature, and love to oneself are the three most important values which a child can be taught.
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What moves me is probably something like [...]
Homero Aridjis: What moves me is probably something like pessimism. From that point on everything is considered lost; and defeat, from where everything is considered won.
The myths we should create for improving the [...]
Homero Aridjis: The myths we should create for improving the world, should be the myths we have to apply in order to improve our everyday life, and they are very simple. They are those of having clean air, clear water and transparent light, totally simple but essential for improving our life and the world surrounding us.
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The food that we eat is of such a bad [...]
Homero Aridjis: The food that we eat is of such a bad quality because of the greed of the producers, especially of those who pursue the commercial interests more than the human ones. And above all because they sometimes apply in their elaboration harmful ingredients that can cause damage to our health. In their production they use pesticides and in the factory process they use artificial ingredients and chemical substances.
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We can protect the identity of cities and [...]
Homero Aridjis: We can protect the identity of cities and adhere to their different identity by making a stand against the globalization of habits, the uniformity of tastes, which the corporations impose on modern life.
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Crowdedness, proliferation of poor areas, [...]
Homero Aridjis: Crowdedness, proliferation of poor areas, ubiquitous rushes, complexity of transports, lack of life quality, water stress, insecurity, economic collapse.
What would happen if all Chinese people [...]
Homero Aridjis: What would happen if all Chinese people wanted a car? Well, it would simply be the delirium of global contamination, the same that would happen if every Indian had a car.
The reason for human failure is not egoism [...]
Homero Aridjis: The reason for human failure is not egoism alone but unlimited avidity too.
