The guabinas is an archetypal character of the Venezuelan identity. Hence much of the nation's history is revealed incomprehensible if we ignore the social imprint of this anonymous individual, limited speaking and calling chameleon, who refuses to fight for one's own idea that you only want to walk always on good terms with God and devil. To trace the etymology of the word 'guabinas "is not necessary to cross the Atlantic. In his indispensable work Good and Bad words, the philologist Angel Rosenblat explains that the word comes from "guabina" indigenous voice used to designate a river fish, skin so slippery it almost impossible to capture work. In Venezuela, by extension, we tend to cross off guabinas the subject of trial elusive, reluctant to reveal their views to others or to take sides in feverish public debate.
The first feature to note in this study is that the guabineo, unlike masturbation, can not be understood as a solitary practice. No guabinea when alone, because no sense and grace. There is therefore, as in boxing, a guabineo "shadow." And unless the person suffers from a bipolar disorder or drag a psyche split into multiple personalities (in the style of the characters in Brian de Palma), it is imperative to the aid of other individuals, preferably advocates extreme positions, to feel the compulsion to silence the opinion externalize their own feigned support for the approach of others.
guabinas should not be taken to a philosopher. Doubt acting out in his speech halting, not existential in nature. There is thus a follower of Camus or Jean Paul Sartre. Unlike Hamlet, guabina man has no problem being and not being at the same time. Do not nest in his soul life dilemmas, but fears intractable: the power, loneliness, ridicule, the rancor that boasts of good memory.
Like the lion in the story of the Polish writer Slawomir Mrozek, the guabinas not encouraged, for tactical instinct to sink their teeth on the sand taken to the coliseum will not be something that, by quirks of fate, martyred Christians end up sitting in the stands of the authorities and then deal with the perpetrators and their collaborators. And few things disturb both the temporizing spirit as the inability to foresee whether the subdued today may become the ruler of the morning.
Since the front of the fog that covers the future events, the guabinas only manages to increase its forecast paranoid. Do not want to be betrayed by any of the technological advances that provide new eyes and ears of men. So, enjoy the Twitter -the guabinas is the follower par excellence to establish itself as the king of Retweet (by one of @ @ chavezcandanga sends another runrrunes). While when installed in the Facebook press, in sequence and wildly bipolar options like me and I do not like . His soundtrack: the song "I do not know tomorrow," the Salsa Luis Enrique.
From the standpoint of personality, guabinas is located in no man's land. Not a man of action, because it lacks resolving spirit, but neither is a man of ideas, because, by closing the channels of output, it ends up aborting his beliefs and convictions. Having good, guabinas no more than a neither-nor existential, an abstention of life, a zombie pains to pose as tribune of the agora and polis member .
The perfect guabineo involves the death of creativity, since the appeal to original modes of expression, always brings the risk of distortion, deformation of the opinion or testimony. It is for this reason that the virtuous appeasement is closely related to the repeat, even in the same tone, the words spoken by the interlocutor (echolalia). Because guabinas tragedy is that, sooner or later, be called to speak, and, by this time, the gestures will seem insignificant when mean brightest pearls of rhetoric guabinas: "Yes, but not" 'Perhaps, but suddenly " "The one and the other, but quite the opposite." The guabineo is above all an act of speech.
hurts to admit it, but some people seem more willing to fight for the freedom of guabineo that the defense of freedom of expression. However, in times of polarization and parliamentary regulations to curb hypothetical talanquera breaks the guabineo is a risky strategy, and often unwise, for political survival. Guabina man can not stand even a Wikileaks not a secret police report. Supporters nonmetropolitan culipandeo not tolerate.
As popular phenomenon, the guabineo has metastasized to other areas of social life. For example, news has become renowned approach based on journalistic values \u200b\u200bof objectivity and impartiality. What abstruse sounds in theory, in practice limited to action of alternating government news with a notice of opposition or, alternatively, contrast a government interview with another of the opposition without ever addressing the review of intermediate positions to third in the public debate. Recent experience shows that, at the point of guabineo media, can be pushed into a broadcast news meridian fair by a compact, full of information drawn from a fair and balanced perspective (Just because templon takes place at the exact point where it pulls better. Balanced, because once a person clinging to the rope savior can not prevent wobble, by a movement of inertia, from here to there and from there to here.)
The guabineo polyglot and cosmopolitan is a competitive advantage in the world of diplomacy. However, the hunger strike started by a courageous group of Venezuelan students have shown the existence of guabineo bland arrangements, as displayed by the mediocre secretary general of the Organization of American States, that consideration hemispheric union presidents who seeks posing as an assembly of sovereign peoples.
When we see José Miguel Insulza in unfortunate as head of the OAS, repeat with the American psychologist William James: "There is no more miserable human being who lives in indecision."
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