Unfortunately we did not make it to Guernica.
I heard far more about the Spanish civil war in the People's (?) museum in Manchester than I had during the entire 2 1/2 months I was in Spain.
Here are a couple of photos from Spain.
The main street in the village of Samos.
A plaque on a church. We are for Justice and Mercy, and Truth and Peace, and true Freedom. Edward Burroughs 1659
But it is not true that nobody talks about it. Just take a tour of escolar.net.
One of the reasons we [the Spanish ETers] don't write more about the political situation in Spain is, I think, disbelief and bewilderment as to how we're going to explain what's going on to foreigners. "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
But tie it to ze nature an ze istorie of ze peoples. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Now seriously, you believe in "the Nature of Peoples"? "It's the statue, man, The Statue."
So, thanks for reading my message and suggesting I should be killed! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
But my mind is full of strange fantasies that only touch realities tangentially...
...I can imagine a line going back to the spanish empire: who won, who lost, who got kicked over...and before that to the creation of espana out of regions and that must tie into christians vs. moors, and then there'd be a north/south split and issues relating to southern spain's relationships with north africa...
...so: the catholic church; regional issues; implicit or explicit ideas of superiority and inferiority;
....maybe that's all a fantasy. Probably!
...and then there are those who have a "conservative" mindset. But somehow fascists don't seem conservative to me. Hitler's party was socialist. They destroy that...that (eyes bulging!)...
....cough cough! Here's a question (you don't need to answer it, but at least I end up with a question):
What do the Spanish Right Wing want? And, more specifically, what do they want apart from lower taxes, less regulation, and all the other capitalist-business "right wing" guff? What makes you tend to disbelief? The lack of...rationality? Or the clear...racism? Or the clear....what?
Well, that's more than one question!
(And ze bit about ze nature and ze istories was just me trying to say "Please give me some fruity context!") Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
