That’s why they did it. Because a few things bring such pleasure as seeing causes that seem impossible move forward. All history of humanity is built with heroic deeds and memorable acts, because they are filled with knowledge. They have developed as a result of experience and will give birth to new happenings.
“We don’t write so that they know. We do it so that they don’t forget”.
That’s why we can’t allow people to sell and privatize memory. Not only because we get lost, but also because memory is the only hope left to open up a tomorrow, which is inside of us, but abandoned at the other side of the mirror.
We have to save ourselves from oblivion to prevent them from privatizaing us, grouping us and that we don’t lose the magic of words. We have to make the best possible space for the word to travel and let it be the one that seeks us and find us. We are people because the word travels within ourselves, and it enters a you that welcomes it. The word person is synonymous to mask, which expresses itself by gestures. If there’s no you, there’s no word, only noise.
“Let all those who are different speak. Let them speak and find memory, and conspire and shape a better future for all with it”.
Sometimes, life seems to be a burden because we take it as a noun instead of taking risks with infinitive. André Malraux responded to General Charles de Gaulle, “Even if life didn’t make sense, it should make sense to live.” We don’t dare to dissent and we hold on to the empty concept of security and certainty they sell us in thousands of different ways, as if there were something more certain than uncertainty, which carries challenge and tranforms transforms problems. Maybe Quixote’s most revealing phrase is: “I know who I am, Sancho my friend.”
In the face of the malaise of a world in crisis, it’s precise to hold on to memory and to leave space for the word. Inside the mirror labyrinth in which modern history has become, it is necessary to carve and convert them into crystals in order to see what we can be. “Mirrors are to see this side, crystals are to penetrate them and to go to the other side.” And to start being happy by loving what we do to overcome this collective solitude that will create crisis if we set our minds to it. Let’s rescue memory from oblivion.

José Carlos García Fajardo
Profesor of Contemporary Social and Political Thought. CCS Director
Translated by Carlos Miguélez
fajardoccs@solidarios.org.es