Remember May 68 is as evoke dreams, freedom to seek, to be able to realize that after 40 years as usual nothing has changed ...
not lived on May 68, but on everyone's lips at the time the University was in the air that we thought with the power to change everything, remembering what happened in Paris ¡!!!!!
I wrote in the letter-set mirror ... "forbidden to forbid" or "matters much more what you think of yourself than what others think of you," and I remember my mom would get very angry when trying to clean my mirror, but smiling ... .. and now ... .. why the years have passed, there have been changes, but human beings remain the same.
a few years in Chile began to live the military dictatorship and all those dreams were broken suddenly nothing would be the same ... ..
last week while passing through the front of the newspaper La Nation saw the posters that were exhibited and remembered those who pegábamos on the walls of our parts, or that we designed with the slogan ..... deluded us, as in classes secretly exchanged Mafalda magazines, which we exchanged for a good text of the writings of Marcuse, Jean Paul Sartre and others ... ...
REMEMBER SOME HISTORY .....
all started in 1968 at the University of Nanterre, spread to the Latin Quarter of Paris and spread to the speed of light for the world and got crack the foundations of society, authority and power structures in France. From 22 May to 16 June 1968, while the stones rained down on police in Paris and the students were shouting from the barricades that were "forbidden to forbid", maybe no one imagine that this youth movement, the most lively, wide and peaceful met modern history would become a time bomb that would end the patriarchal society, would allow the emergence of women and youth as full social actors and, 21 years later, would cause the collapse of communist regimes .
Parisians Students wanted or were interested in taking power, just trying to relax the strict morality imposed by the government of Charles De Gaulle. When he finally calmed union workers and tempers calmed spread through all France felt that the movement had been defeated. However, this student revolt, which was the most important twentieth century, had its overall impact on the cultural.
The revolt surprised everyone because it is generated in a country in decline but in a society that was unemployed, lived in a democracy, and enjoyed an enviable well as from the end of the Second War had experienced growth sustained. The complaint was against an entire social system that corseted old to new generations.
"ABANDONMENT" oil and acrylic on canvas. (92 x 73) Gloria Pailles Forty years after these events we still wonder where are the revolutionaries of yesterday. Most of them, as happened to the hippies, joined the system criticized and fought, preferring to forget the past, locking in a case of youthful dreams marks. And none of them dreams, leads a comfortable life and is happy with it.
The most popular slogans were: Imagination to power, is forbidden to forbid, Be realistic, ask impossible; Stop the world I want to go down, are buying your happiness. Bass. Of course like all slogans and revolutionary slogans have the exaggeration of romance.
"Empty" triptych oil and acrylic on canvas, 1.20 x 1.50. Gloria Pailles Many criticize that the slogans were utopian. Slogans were rebels, but contradictory and impractical, especially in today's world but I miss those dreams, because at present we do not see anyone fighting for nothing ... ... and that inaction that exists in today's Europe and today in Chile where no great movements that move the masses is close to death.
Without dreams there is no life .... and I refuse to say that nothing we can do .... still dreaming I want to scream ¡!!!!! IMPOSSIBLE
