Maybe the protest is one of the manifestations with which the being has written a large part of its history. Some created real civilisations; others stayed in the history of defeats: in incunables… that could have been, but weren't.
The protest always established a right or a duty; depending on who protested… and it produced at least an argument or… a dispute, or a discussion.
Probably, it is the most persevering attitude in the moment of maintaining a certain level of violence.
Maybe –maybe-, in many cases it is preceded by a “reasonable”?,… envy.
Maybe it is an inevitable companion -the envy- to protest.
What is certain is that… it became so convincing, that it became institutionalised. Yes. In the human communities -until now, the 21st-century- the protest is ruled, regulated… in some places you can protest, on Mondays; in others Thursdays; in others, every day... The protest could be a manifestation, of thought, word, action… of thought is almost continual.
Maybe, the expense, -the expense, eh?- of the protest doesn’t manage -as a way to say it- to compensate the benefits that it obtains. If you spend… 5000 calories to protest, -for example- to get them, after you've won the protest, could be… 3500.
Also, the protest -now that it is “institutionalised”- sometimes is divided into “just” protests… and “unjust” protests; in complaints, in rage and annoyance: which are protests that, let's call them, “smaller”, but they are there, having an effect over the free flowing of life.
Evidently, nowadays we can’t conceive a “living together” without protests. It would seem like something… “Unnatural”. At least, there has to be complaints, rage and envy.
It is obvious that, in the case of the protest, once it has been institutionalised and there are paths and channels to protest, it forms part of… “The luxury of power”. Yes. The power permits itself the luxury of being criticised, insulted, shouted at, it can be… whatever!, because they know, -those in the power- that those who protest, will never come to desire power. It has been a great move. Because they know that those who protest, if they had to exercise power, firstly, they wouldn't know how to exercise it; secondly, they would do it even worse; thirdly, they would ruin everything that they wanted to achieve.
It's not necessary to prove this. You… just have to search in history a little. Evidently, sometimes the power changes, and as in itself the power corrupts, the protest installs another power, that is not new!: it is the same dog, with a different collar.
“The dog of liberty, fraternity, and equality… of the holy guillotine” never managed to bark in these three tones. Never! Nor will it bark, because… the power itself cannot permit it.
It's an example!
Everyone can remember, and some even more, -to put another example!-, the famous Russian Tsars, and the miseries that the people of the East were submitted to. And behold… a massive protest guided by the Bolshevik comrades, institutionalised a protest, creating “communism”. Its rise was so strong, that it even converted into a global power, competing with the other global power. And its decline was so rapid, that it converted into exploded grenade fragments, which continue to explode in small moments.
Passing… from the terrible dictatorship of the Tsar to the dictatorship of the proletarian, for the people this didn't… suppose the best advance -besides… the pains of the revolution-.
It seems as if, the protest itself carries encrusted a –possible- potential of power. For this reason it became institutionalised: so that whatever protest could be channelled without –without- wishes –in inverted commas- without “wishes of power”, as an exercise of such action.
And well, let's put another simpler example: the United States of Mexico. These protests...
Wow, there have been revolutions in Mexico! -Oh my God!- and deaths in abundance, up to the point of creating an “Institutional Revolutionary Party” -take a look-: the PRI.
Incredible! How can an “Institutional” Revolutionary Party exist? It is to sell out the revolution; it is to pawn the revolution; it is to put a muzzle on the revolution; it is to inhibit completely “whatever other” revolution -supposing that revolution is the best way of protesting, to achieve a new power...; a new power which is better for all-.
“Well, let nobody complain, because in Cuba we have resolved this matter. We have 55 years of revolutionary power, and this thing is not only institutionalised, but it is rooted in the people. Everybody is content! Well, half of them. The other half doesn’t know where they are. And the half of the half of those who stayed, are protesting inside” themselves.
Incredible! Well, and you can continue searching history – in broad terms-.
All of this is immersed in the great protest. Yes! “The great protest”: “How can God permit...!?”
The great protest. We arrive to the great march of Mao Tse Tung –the helmsman-.
“How can God permit so much hunger?! How can God permit that the rich are more beautiful and taller!, and have blue eyes? How can God permit so much injustice?! I don't believe!”.
And the believers: “blessed be the poor, the screwed up and the desperate!; the haggard, the disgusting ones, and the haemophiliacs; also the anaemic ones and the degenerated, because for them will be the kingdom of heaven!”
Where is that?
The religions counter-attack loudly, so as to run away with the loot of the most ignorant ones; the most desperate ones.
Promises and promises… of what will arrive after death, that we will be liberated from evil and sins, and we will be given… virgins, dolphins, water lilies…
It must be like this, because those who die well dead don't return. They stay there.
-And if it wasn't like that?-.
The Great March of the protest is there, always prepared… to protest and protest and -at the same time- console itself and console itself.
It's like he who protests because he doesn't have a girlfriend, and ends up consoling himself masturbating. Finally he becomes a masturbator forever! Or when he gets a girlfriend, he asks her to “masturbate” him. How horrible! Really!
So in the end… all of the options and possibilities of the human species gifted with special privileges, let's say, to exercise an Infinite and Supreme Kindness, it is left to be exercised like this, but it converts into the great envy -from the Great March, to the Great Envy- the Great Envy towards the Creation, and it tries to create its own state of life, so as many Gods as there are men arise; and amongst each other, they try to finish the other one.
“Incapable!”... It's possible to say this. Yes, it's possible to say that… the human being has shown… -in these levels it can be said- he has shown himself incapable!... of exercising his goods, his talents, his graces towards a path of kindness, of liberation and of contemplation. He has produced and created his own conception and paralysis of the universe, and when something surpasses him or when something isn't in his paralysed cannons, he blames, he protests, he insults or he complains!... to the Divine: what he doesn't know, to what he has turned his back on, or that he has looked at with such admiration, that it has led him to envy and he has tried to clumsily imitate it.
Nowadays, anybody can… –anybody!- can notice that the hunger of this species could be solved very easily, right? Well, well… the guilt, the protest for the hunger is channelled and continues to be produced, not through the lack of political will of the human species, but through the punishment of God, the injustice of God, the drama!... that God has created in the world. And from there the glorious atheists rise, and end up saying: “Patriotism, Death or Liberty”.
How horrible! Doesn’t it stretch more? To there we have arrived?
The praying sense tries to warn… about this history that gravitates over our species…; which is produced from envy towards the Creation, to which he has replaced with procreation, with materialism and with the domination of knowledge.
And this warning is fundamental when… -above all- we notice that our protests, our disagreements, our rage… is not only in the level of large protests and of large manifestations… No!
No. –and here begins the graveness of the situation-. It is that the being begins to gestate itself like… a protest, anger, combat and a continuous exercising of these things, since its youngest infancy. Like when the “children, in France, know how to speak French”. That's difficult, eh? That is why they are more intelligent. The children when they are small, in France -with three or four years- know how to speak French perfectly. And here, not one child at that age knows how to speak French...
Yes. This nonsense comes from a poem that said -or says-:
A Portuguese was amazed
In seeing that, in their young infancy,
All of the French children,
knew how to speak French.
A devils art that is…!”
And well, the poem continues.
Take a look to what point one can protest and be ignorant! Wow! To say: “It is the devil that has possessed these people! Take a look! And the English speak English! What cracks! And we, being so close and being a bigger country..., and nothing!, hey!, There is no way that the people speak English!”
Well, the protest is forged and forged, and forged and forged... and, as it is institutionalised, it is “the protest of the baby”, “the protest of the child”, “the protest of the adolescent”, “the protest of the youngster”, “the protest of the adult”... And that's it!; because the grandfather is made protestant and is locked up.
Is there… -as if it was “abracadabra”, the magic word- is there... -it is a question, as if looking another way- is there another way… that isn’t permanently protesting…?
Is there another way to relate with… my father, my mother, my child... that isn't protesting, fighting, punishing? Is there another way? Is not all that has happened a long enough time of trials, and the universal preamble that we have spoken about, that is in the inside of everyone, and that is exercised in the day-to-day? Is there not now sufficient experience to know that this takes us to a... to what we see: to a misery? -To summarize!-; that, bettering it a lot, could be said:
-Well, but… while it arrives, you have a good time, this happens, the other happens...
-But it arrives?
-Yes!, the misery will arrive to you.
And the abracadabra? The abracadabra insists, from its praying motion, so that… when it appears -because it continually appears-:
-It’s that the train is late by 2 min!
-Well! Well! It's that, those trains... Well! Well! Well!
You’re going to choke with the goji berries! Please! Well, well, well, well...!
-Did you know?, Today's coffee is...
-You’re kidding?!, watery, again?! Well! Well!, Well, well, well...
And, protesting, I run to the petrol station to ask for an “espresso”. How cocky!, Really.... What a shame! “Well, well, well...”
-Well, take a look, it's what God wants. For as much as you insist... but… I don't agree, eh?
-Well!, well, well... By God!
-Yes, it must be for God, because I don't agree with that...
The things could have -in these diatribes- many variables; up to making a bitter subject -bitter, bitter!- I mean, he feels bad about everything!, he protests about everything!... he camouflages it a little -no?- so that it's not noticed too much, but… more bitter than an olive before it’s born! And that's difficult!, eh? It’s difficult! There are people that, in their infinite protest, are incapable of giving you a little of… of whatever thing. Unless they give it to you protesting, of course! So, you say: “look, forget it, forget it…”
Maybe, the praying “abracadabra”… concerning the protest, the complaint, the rage, with that envious wrapping, wants to… suggest to us, to recommend!, the possibility of... of being able to notice!... the goods, the talents and the graces that each one has, for the mere fact of being; and all of these catastrophes, dramas and tragedies that man -as humanity- has gestated… concerning his capacity, and that the Creation has permitted.
And that, without doubt –“without doubt”-, if this has happened, it's so that the being itself notices the uselessness of its plan… inside the Mystery that there is concerning our presence and our evolution.
Notice that there are other ways. And these other ways are related to… the respect, the care, the admiration, the collaboration, the support, the happiness, the humour, the intuition… To mention a few!: that are perfectly identifiable, feasible, and applicable, but that usually are not taken into account.
Putting in evidence up to what point the protest, the rage, the disagreement, the competition and everything that this entails in the historical level, present, past, and -for what is seen-, the future and, -above all-, the link that there is in our day-to-day and what our deterioration supposes for the Creation, are factors that should be taken into account.
And probably, at the time of illness!, at the time of pain!, of wounding!... it could be said that all of this came because of… this continuous and permanent rage!, protest!...; and obviously, the following repression, and protest of the other party... and so on.
This attitude of a continual showing of disagreement, with anything that is said!, -except when it is what oneself says-, could be a factor of the chronicity of an unknown stress… that mines in our genetic instances, until converting them into a delirium? Could it be…?
New instances. Truly clear… faced with a continuous protest.
Permanent creativity.
Making of life an art.
Continuous respect.
Obedient listening.
We can never say that there are not means to make, of the day, something transparent.
