Gaddafi AND CAMELS *
By Armando Arteaga
images of television news broadcasts, satellite, often bring surprises every day. The planet Earth passes quickly in some of the chimeric raconte and bizarre experiences that make the news or, better, scandal. There is contradictory humanity hardships and excesses in full bustle of the destruction and boredom.
bursts of these images have really offended me. It is clear that many characters have an unbridled passion for the role. It turns out that from the Aristotelian tradition politikon zoo man was a political animal. And as we all know, historically speaking, politicians have moved toward their intentions and proposals to men (mass) and also the poor animals. A purpose of the Summit of the NAM held in Belgrade have been arriving at the international meeting in poor countries a delegation of camels accompanied by a politician. The camel has become a "zoo politikon" a cruel man and animal, "zoo naked."
Blessed are the camels or elephants or rhinos or giraffes and hippos if they make a political issue, a retired left, a shy and traumatized child, feels a little less bad. But where these animals are used to motivate eccentricities, it seems a grotesque gesture. And that people like Idi Amin, Pinochet, Noriega, to name just a few of the rare fauna, I always seemed to me that they put a dose of macabre humor to time.
The shift to increase the dose of macabre humor has played in these days to Muammar Gaddafi. Gaddafi has had a very special way of identification with their desert world: on the outskirts of Belgrade tent set up his campaign and his caravan of camels, giving the impression to show off some barbaric primitivism that no doubt always fascinate eyes of the cameras newspaper.
Gaddafi, leader of the Libyan revolution, can be a crazy crazier than the other, Western civilization you might want a damn, you can feel the center of the universe, but the ability of camels to make policy is on the non-Gaddafi, has immense political power, even to be and feel exotic.
* Published in Express (09/30/1989).
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