{"id":19817,"date":"2016-12-28T07:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=19817"},"modified":"2017-01-18T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:53:02","slug":"alquimista-supgaleano-la-culpa-es-de-la-flor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=19817","title":{"rendered":"[:es]Alquimista SupGaleano: \u201cLa culpa es de la flor\u201d[:en]The Flower is to Blame[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\" align=\"center\">\u201c<b>La culpa es de la flor\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19808\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43-350x219.jpg\" alt=\"radio-zapatista-43\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Escucha el audio: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/dia2_galeanoponencia.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">27 de diciembre del 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cEl 30 de febrero de este a\u00f1o de 2016, la revista electr\u00f3nica sueca especializada en temas cient\u00edficos, \u201c<i>River\u00b4s Scientist Research Institute<\/i>\u201d, public\u00f3 un estudio que, tal vez, habr\u00e1 de revolucionar las ciencias y su aplicaci\u00f3n al entorno social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Un grupo de cient\u00edficos, encabezados por los doctores suecos Stod Sverderg, Kurt Wallander y Stellan Skarsgard, presentaron un complejo an\u00e1lisis multidisciplinario que llega a una conclusi\u00f3n que sonar\u00e1 escandalosa: hay una relaci\u00f3n directa entre el aumento en la cantidad y calidad de los movimientos feministas y la disminuci\u00f3n de la tasa de natalidad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Combinando m\u00e9todos de estad\u00edstica, embriolog\u00eda, biolog\u00eda molecular, gen\u00e9tica y an\u00e1lisis conductual, los cient\u00edficos establecen que el aumento en la diversidad y beligerancia del feminismo, provoca una inhibici\u00f3n de la libido en los varones, lo que reduce la frecuencia de la actividad sexual reproductiva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Pero no s\u00f3lo. An\u00e1lisis de laboratorio establecen que los espermatozoides de los varones expuestos a la actividad feminista son m\u00e1s d\u00e9biles que los de los varones que no est\u00e1n expuestos. Lo que se conoce como <i>astebizisoermia<\/i>, o s\u00edndrome del \u201cespermatozoide perezoso\u201d, tiene m\u00e1s presencia en la poblaci\u00f3n masculina de las sociedades donde el feminismo ocupa un lugar protag\u00f3nico en las relaciones sociales. Seg\u00fan la prestigiada publicaci\u00f3n citada, el doctor Everet Bacstrom, del \u201c<i>Rainn Wilson Institute<\/i>\u201d, con sede en Londres, Inglaterra, confront\u00f3 los resultados de la investigaci\u00f3n con una muestra de varones europeos, de clase media, WASP, y obtuvo la misma conclusi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><!--more-->Por su parte, las activistas feministas europeas, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny y Sarah Linden, consultadas por la publicaci\u00f3n, declararon que todo no era m\u00e1s que una sucia maniobra de lo que llamaron \u201cel cientificismo patriarcal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Mientras tanto, el centro internacional de consultor\u00eda para gobiernos \u201c<i>Odenkirk Associated<\/i>\u201d, declar\u00f3, a trav\u00e9s de sus voceros, James Gordon y Harvey Bullock, que recomendar\u00edan a los gobiernos de los pa\u00edses del primer mundo, cito textualmente, \u201cinhibir el activismo y la beligerancia de los grupos feministas\u201d, para as\u00ed elevar la tasa de natalidad en los pa\u00edses desarrollados. As\u00ed mismo, declararon que recomendar\u00e1n a los gobiernos de los pa\u00edses del Tercer mundo, principalmente en \u00c1frica y Latinoam\u00e9rica, alentar el surgimiento y participaci\u00f3n de grupos feministas, principalmente en zonas marginadas, de modo que se reduzca la tasa de natalidad en esos sectores, evitando as\u00ed que proliferen los disturbios sociales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Consultadas al respecto, las asesoras de la Comunidad Econ\u00f3mica Europea, Stella Gibson y Gillian Anderson, se negaron a confirmar o desmentir que el citado estudio ser\u00e1 la base de la nueva pol\u00edtica internacional de Europa para con el tercer mundo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Bien, esto que les he le\u00eddo es un ejemplo del nuevo periodismo cient\u00edfico. Aunque es mi autor\u00eda total, se los damos como regalo de fiestas decembrinas. T\u00f3menlo y hagan un experimento: publ\u00edquenlo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">No recurran a la prensa escrita. Salvo el que esto escribe y un cada vez m\u00e1s reducido n\u00famero de personas, ya nadie lee los peri\u00f3dicos y revistas para informarse. Vaya, ni siquiera quienes escriben en esos medios los leen, s\u00f3lo consultan las referencias que de sus textos se hagan en redes sociales; y m\u00e1s, son las redes sociales quienes les dictan el tema que deben tratar. Hace apenas unos meses, le\u00ed a un \u201cl\u00edder de opini\u00f3n\u201d y \u201canalista especializado\u201d, preguntar a sus \u201cseguidores\u201d el tema que deb\u00eda tratar en su columna period\u00edstica: \u201cfav, si sobre la candidata del Consejo Nacional Indigenista\u201d (me cae que as\u00ed escribi\u00f3), \u201crt, si sobre el gran camarada y dirigente, sol de nuestra ruta y preclaro constructor del porvenir\u201d. No necesito decirles que ganaron los rt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">No, si quieren tener \u201crepercusi\u00f3n medi\u00e1tica\u201d recurran, como fuente primaria de difusi\u00f3n, a las redes sociales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Busquen a una estrella de las redes sociales, por ejemplo, un adolescente <i>tuitstar<\/i> con cientos de miles de seguidores, alguien preocupado siempre por darle a sus fans materiales que promuevan la tolerancia cr\u00edtica, el debate racional y la reflexi\u00f3n profunda (cosas que, es evidente, se encuentran en abundancia en esa estimulante red social). Alguien como, por ejemplo, John M. Ackerman (253 mil seguidores). S\u00ed, ya s\u00e9 que dije que un adolescente, y el se\u00f1or John Ackerman ya tiene sus kil\u00f3metros recorridos, pero estoy hablando de edad mental, as\u00ed que sean comprensivos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Luego \u201cs\u00edganlo\u201d y consigan que no los bloquee. Esto es muy sencillo, no necesitan escribir nada medianamente inteligible. Basta con llenar su \u201ctime line\u201d de rt\u00b4s de todas las grandes y s\u00f3lidas verdades que emanan del teclado del susodicho. Y tampoco eso es complicado, porque pueden configurar su cuenta de ustedes para que d\u00e9 rt en autom\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Bien, ahora s\u00f3lo necesitan convencer a ese \u201c<i>influencer<\/i>\u201d que ponga una breve referencia al citado estudio, y sus cientos de miles de seguidores, en autom\u00e1tico, le dar\u00e1n fav y rt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">As\u00ed el estudio \u201ccient\u00edfico\u201d ser\u00e1 un \u00e9xito y ser\u00e1 la base de futuros an\u00e1lisis, coloquios, mesas redondas y entrar\u00e1 a la abultada biblioteca de las teor\u00edas de la conspiraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">No, no tendr\u00e1n que preocuparse de que alguien se tome la molestia de analizar cr\u00edticamente la nota supuestamente cient\u00edfica y se d\u00e9 cuenta de lo siguiente:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Febrero no tiene 30 d\u00edas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- \u201cRiver\u201d es una serie policial brit\u00e1nica en la que protagonista, John River, es interpretado por el sueco Stellan John Skarsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Stod Sverderg y Kurt Wallander, son personajes de la serie policial sueca \u201cWallander\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Everet Bacstrom, es el nombre del protagonista de la serie policial \u201cBacstrom\u201d, y Rainn Wilson es el nombre del actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Chlo\u00eb Sevigny es el nombre de la actriz que protagoniza, en el papel de Catherine Jensen, la serie policial danesa \u201cThose Who Kill\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Sarah Linden es el nombre de la protagonista de la serie policial estadunidense The Killing, con la actriz Mireille Enos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Bob Odenkirk es el nombre del actor principal de la serie \u201cBetter Call Saul\u201d, supuestamente la precuela de Breaking Bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- James Gordon y Harvey Bullock son personajes de la serie \u201cGotham\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- La Comunidad Econ\u00f3mica Europea no existe m\u00e1s, desapareci\u00f3 en 2009 para dar paso a Uni\u00f3n Europea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">.- Y Stella Gibson y Gillian Anderson, son respectivamente el personaje protag\u00f3nico y la actriz que desempe\u00f1a ese papel en la serie \u201cThe Fall\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Ah\u00ed disculpen si mi pronunciaci\u00f3n del ingl\u00e9s est\u00e1 lejos de la etiqueta de coloquios cient\u00edficos internacionales, y m\u00e1s bien parece de \u201c<i>wet back<\/i>\u201d de los a\u00f1os 40\u00b4s, pero la solidaridad con los migrantes latinos que padecen la pesadilla Trump tiene caminos insospechados y no siempre evidentes. En todo caso, quienes lean y no escuchen estas palabras, no tendr\u00e1n por qu\u00e9 ligar nada con el horror que ya se vive al norte del r\u00edo Bravo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Claro, hubiera bastado que cualquiera de ustedes \u201c<i>googleara<\/i>\u201d las principales referencias para darse cuenta de que el supuesto \u201cestudio cient\u00edfico\u201d descrito, es un completo fraude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u00bfTiene qu\u00e9 preocuparse la ciencia de esos fraudes que reducen el quehacer cient\u00edfico a una caricatura de consumo masivo?<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u00bfCreen que s\u00f3lo deben enfrentarse a la religi\u00f3n y al creacionismo? La religi\u00f3n es la religi\u00f3n, no pretende ser cient\u00edfica. En cambio, la <i>pseudociencia<\/i> s\u00ed es un problema mayor. Si creen que est\u00e1n en la \u00e9poca de la Ilustraci\u00f3n, y son felices ridiculizando los paradigmas religiosos y ganando las encuestas de popularidad de la televisi\u00f3n en <i>stream<\/i>, donde se enfrentan ateos contra creyentes, no se han dado cuenta del boquete que las ciencias tienen bajo la l\u00ednea de flotaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Las <i>pseudociencias<\/i> o ciencias falsas no s\u00f3lo ganan cada vez m\u00e1s seguidores, se est\u00e1n convirtiendo ya en una explicaci\u00f3n aceptada de la realidad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Si no me creen, tomen una terapia de cuarzo y de balance <i>bioenerg\u00e9tico<\/i>. O inscr\u00edbanse en un diplomado de \u201cTeor\u00eda de la Ciencia\u201d, en la divisi\u00f3n de estudios superiores de una universidad respetable, y sorpr\u00e9ndanse de que deben cursar una materia que se llama \u201cfilosof\u00eda cient\u00edfica\u201d (el <i>oximor\u00f3n<\/i> que les persigue desde a\u00fan antes de las leyendas de Prometeo, S\u00edsifo y Teseo).<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Cr\u00e9anlo o no, los tiempos oscuros que se vienen, llevan ya a las ciencias, del banquillo de los acusados, al pat\u00edbulo social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Ya volver\u00e9 en otra ocasi\u00f3n sobre este punto m\u00e1s en extenso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Pero ahora esto viene al caso, o cosa, seg\u00fan, porque, as\u00ed como ustedes tienen que confrontar la invasi\u00f3n de esas ciencias falsas, nosotras, nosotros zapatistas enfrentamos eso y algunas cosas m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">En nuestra participaci\u00f3n en la primera sesi\u00f3n general de ayer, les present\u00e9 algunas de las preguntas que mis compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros que han sido seleccionados como alumnas y alumnos suyos, prepararon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">No son mis preguntas. Si fueran m\u00edas, hubieran sido de otro estilo. Ser\u00edan preguntas tipo: \u00bfQu\u00e9 relaci\u00f3n hay entre la sopa de calabaza y la deficiencia cognitiva?, \u00bfCu\u00e1les son cualidades nutritivas de ese portento alimenticio que es el helado de nuez?, \u00bflas inyecciones son una forma pseudocient\u00edfica de la tortura?, etc\u00e9tera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">As\u00ed que lo \u00fanico que hice con las preguntas de mis compas fue agruparlas. Quit\u00e9 algunas preguntas porque supuse que ser\u00edan respondidas en las exposiciones y por otra raz\u00f3n que, si da tiempo, les explicar\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Estas 200 compa\u00f1eras y compa\u00f1eros, 100 mujeres y 100 hombres, fueron seleccionados para asistir, es decir, responden a colectivos. Su presencia aqu\u00ed no obedece a inter\u00e9s o beneficio personal. Al regresar, deben responder a sus colectivos sobre lo que este encuentro fue, lo que aprendieron o no, lo que entendieron o no. O sea que est\u00e1n obligados a socializar el conocimiento. Esta es la raz\u00f3n por la que ven que estos compas escriben y escriben en sus cuadernos y se consultan entre s\u00ed, con una agitaci\u00f3n que dudo que encuentren en su alumnado en la academia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Con esto quiero decirles que, aunque aparentemente ustedes est\u00e1n confrontando a 200 encapuchados y encapuchadas, en realidad sus palabras llegar\u00e1n a decenas de miles de ind\u00edgenas de diferentes lenguas originarias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">S\u00ed, da un poco de miedo. O mucho, seg\u00fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El inter\u00e9s por la ciencia en las comunidades zapatistas es leg\u00edtimo, real. Pero es relativamente nuevo, no ha sido siempre as\u00ed. Responde a una de las transformaciones que nuestra lucha ha experimentado, a nuestro proceso de construcci\u00f3n de nuestra autonom\u00eda, es decir, de nuestra libertad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Esto se los explicar\u00e1 m\u00e1s en extenso el compa\u00f1ero Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s en la sesi\u00f3n de ma\u00f1ana. Por ahora s\u00f3lo me detendr\u00e9 en un par de detalles:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">1.- Las comunidades ind\u00edgenas zapatistas, representadas aqu\u00ed por estos 200 transgresores del estereotipo del ind\u00edgena que reina en la derecha y la izquierda institucional, no conciben este encuentro como un evento \u00fanico. Para que me entiendan: no es una aventura pasajera. Ellos, los pueblos zapatistas, esperan que este primer encuentro sea el inicio de una relaci\u00f3n estable y duradera. Esperan seguir en contacto con ustedes, mantener un continuo intercambio. O como dicen en los pueblos: \u201cque no sea la primera ni la \u00faltima vez\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">2.- El modo de nuestro modo. Para que no se desesperen y para que entiendan por qu\u00e9 no hay preguntas despu\u00e9s de cada exposici\u00f3n, perm\u00edtanme explicarles cu\u00e1l es nuestro modo como alumnas y alumnos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Nosotras, nosotros, no nos planteamos problemas individuales. Como alumnado funcionamos tambi\u00e9n en colectivo. Cada quien hace sus apuntes, luego de la clase o la pl\u00e1tica, se re\u00fane el colectivo y se completan los apuntes tomando lo de todos. As\u00ed, si alguna o alguno se distrajo o entendi\u00f3 otra cosa, los dem\u00e1s le completan o le aclaran. Por ejemplo, en la ponencia de ayer, la del f\u00edsico que ley\u00f3 la Doctora, hay una parte donde \u00e9l se\u00f1ala que alguien pudiera decir que no hay avances en las ciencias, comparando con pa\u00edses desarrollados, porque en M\u00e9xico somos indios. Un compa zapatista estaba bastante molesto porque, seg\u00fan \u00e9l, el f\u00edsico nos estaba criticando como ind\u00edgenas que somos y nos echaba la culpa del nulo avance cient\u00edfico en nuestro pa\u00eds. En la recapitulaci\u00f3n colectiva le aclararon que no el f\u00edsico dec\u00eda eso, sino que el f\u00edsico criticaba a los que dec\u00edan eso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Con las preguntas ocurre lo mismo. Primero se preguntan entre ellos sus dudas. As\u00ed, buena parte de ellas se aclaran porque son producto de que no escucharon, o no apuntaron bien o no entendieron lo que se dec\u00eda. Otro tanto de las preguntas las responden entre s\u00ed. Y ya entonces quedan las preguntas que s\u00ed son dudas colectivas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Yo s\u00e9 que a ustedes les puede parecer un proceso engorroso y tardado, y que m\u00e1s de una, uno se desilusione pensando que no participamos, o que no supo captar la atenci\u00f3n de nosotros. Se equivoca: despu\u00e9s de que se re\u00fanan los colectivos de cada zona, escribir\u00e1n las preguntas que les surgieron y se las haremos llegar por el mismo medio por el que se les invit\u00f3 a este encuentro. Al menos mientras acordamos un medio y un modo para estar comunicados.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Claro, todo esto parte del convencimiento nuestro de que este encuentro es el primero de muchos, y que todas, todos ustedes mantendr\u00e1n comunicaci\u00f3n con sus alumnas y alumnos, y, a trav\u00e9s de ellas y ellos, con decenas de miles de zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Entonces, tengan paciencia. Al menos la misma con la que acometen sus investigaciones y experimentos, o con la que desesperan a que les aprueben el presupuesto para sus proyectos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Dicho lo anterior, perm\u00edtanme proponerles la metodolog\u00eda zapatista por excelencia: responder a una pregunta con otra pregunta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">As\u00ed, tendr\u00edan que iniciar sus respuestas con una pregunta fundamental: \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 est\u00e1n preguntando eso?<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Bien, les explico. Debido al modo del zapatismo, nuestra acci\u00f3n en las comunidades no pretende hegemonizar ni homogeneizar. Esto es: no nos relacionamos s\u00f3lo entre zapatistas, ni pretendemos que todos lo sean. Mientras nuestros tropiezos y errores son s\u00f3lo nuestros, nuestros logros y avances los compartimos con quienes no son zapatistas e incluso con quienes son antizapatistas. Para entender el porqu\u00e9 de eso, ser\u00eda necesario estudiar nuestra historia, algo que rebasa con mucho las pretensiones de este encuentro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Por ahora baste con decir que, por ejemplo, los promotores de salud apoyan tambi\u00e9n a partidistas. As\u00ed que, si un promotor de salud est\u00e1 vacunando, no es extra\u00f1o que se tope con partidistas que se niegan porque, argumentan, las vacunas no son naturales, porque son venenosas, porque enferman, porque meten males en el cuerpo y otras supercher\u00edas que se deben, lo que sea de cada quien, al fraude que es el sistema gubernamental de salud. En efecto, los mayores y mejores promotores de la mala salud en las comunidades partidistas, son las autoridades gubernamentales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Por eso, frente a los dichos de los partidistas, la promotora de salud busca c\u00f3mo argumentar y convencer de que s\u00ed es buena la vacuna. Por eso es l\u00f3gico que una de las preguntas que les le\u00ed ayer sea: <i>\u00bfCient\u00edficamente es necesario vacunarse y por qu\u00e9, o hay medios y\/o formas para sustituir las vacunas por otras cosas? Por ejemplo, las enfermedades de tosferina, sarampi\u00f3n, viruela, t\u00e9tano, etc.<\/i> Con esta pregunta, les est\u00e1n pidiendo m\u00e1s argumentos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Igual es con los promotores de educaci\u00f3n, las locutoras de radio comunitaria, las autoridades y las coordinaciones de colectivos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Otro ejemplo: cuando en una comunidad una persona se convulsiona o se enferma y presenta s\u00edntomas extra\u00f1os, los partidistas empiezan a decirse que es que alguien hizo brujer\u00eda. Como las acusaciones de brujer\u00eda suelen terminar en linchamientos, los zapatistas se esfuerzan en convencer a los partidistas de que no hay tal cosa, que las convulsiones tienen una explicaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica y no m\u00e1gica, y que no es brujer\u00eda sino epilepsia lo que provoca esos ataques. Por eso les preguntan de lo sobrenatural, las ciencias ocultas, la telepat\u00eda, etc\u00e9tera. No hay estad\u00edsticas de esto, pero m\u00e1s de un partidista le debe al neozapatismo el no haber sido linchado por brujer\u00eda, mal de ojo, y cosas parecidas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Est\u00e1n tambi\u00e9n las preguntas sobre t\u00f3picos de los que han recibido visiones contradictorias. Por ejemplo, los transg\u00e9nicos. Hay quien les dice que son perjudiciales y hay quien dice que no, o que no como se cree. Entonces los compas piden pruebas cient\u00edficas, y no consignas, de una u otra posici\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El d\u00eda de ayer, la bi\u00f3loga nos platicaba de una encuesta que realiz\u00f3, me parece, en redes sociales. Nos dijo que alguien le respondi\u00f3 que participar\u00eda cuando incluyera entre las opciones algo como \u201cla ciencia es un mal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Bueno, a las comunidades zapatistas llega todo tipo de gente. La mayor\u00eda a decirnos lo que debemos o no hacer. Llega gente, por ejemplo, que nos dice que es bueno vivir en casas con piso de tierra y paredes de bajareque y barro; que es bueno andar descalzos; que todo eso nos beneficia porque nos pone en contacto directo con la madre naturaleza y recibimos as\u00ed, directamente, los efluvios ben\u00e9ficos de la armon\u00eda universal. No se re\u00edan pensando que estoy caricaturizando, estoy transcribiendo textualmente una valoraci\u00f3n de un exalumno de la escuelita zapatista.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cLa modernidad es mala\u201d, dicen, e incluyen en ella el calzado, el piso, las paredes y el techo de material, y la ciencia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Claro, la ciencia no tiene mucho a su favor. De su mano llegan las minas a cielo abierto, las maquinarias para levantar hoteles y fraccionamientos, los cultivos impuestos con d\u00e1divas y programas gubernamentales de \u201cprogreso\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Se dice que la religi\u00f3n lleg\u00f3 a las comunidades ind\u00edgenas con la espada, cierto. Pero se olvida que las <i>pseudociencias<\/i> y las <i>anticiencias<\/i> llegan de la mano de la buena vibra, el naturismo como neo-religi\u00f3n, el esoterismo como \u201csabidur\u00eda ancestral\u201d, y las microdosis como neo-medicina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Yo comprendo que esas cosas funcionen en los establecimientos h\u00edpsters de San Crist\u00f3bal de Las Casas o de los Coyoacanes m\u00e1s cercanos a su coraz\u00f3n, y que suenen bien mientras se dan un <i>toquec\u00edn<\/i> (prexta pa la orquexta), bebiendo <i>smartdrinks<\/i> y consumiendo drogas blandas. Ok, cada quien se evade de la realidad seg\u00fan su presupuesto. No lo juzgamos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Pero entiendan que el reto que nos hemos propuesto afrontar como zapatistas que somos, necesita herramientas que, lamento si desilusiono a m\u00e1s de una, uno, S\u00d3LO nos pueden proporcionar las \u201cciencias cient\u00edficas\u201d, que es como el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s denomina a las ciencias \u201cque s\u00ed son ciencias\u201d, a diferencia de las ciencias que no lo son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><b>-*-<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Tambi\u00e9n ayer se nos habl\u00f3 de un experimento de algo as\u00ed como \u201cciencia y g\u00e9nero\u201d. Creo que era as\u00ed: se pon\u00edan a un hombre y a una mujer a competir por un puesto en la academia, una y otro con id\u00e9ntico <i>curriculum vitae<\/i>; quienes seleccionaban, estaban al par: igual cantidad de hombres que de mujeres; seleccionaban al hombre; les preguntaban por qu\u00e9 lo hab\u00edan elegido a \u00e9l y no a ella, y respondieron que la mujer era sumisa, conciliadora y d\u00e9bil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Claro, mi composici\u00f3n qu\u00edmico biol\u00f3gica incluye las obras completas de Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Jim\u00e9nez y Pedro Infante, as\u00ed que celebr\u00e9 la decisi\u00f3n. Pero luego, con el SubMoy quedamos pensando y haciendo cuentas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Le preguntamos a la insurgenta Erika (aqu\u00ed presente) qu\u00e9 pensaba de eso. Ella, a su vez, me pregunt\u00f3 qu\u00e9 significaba \u201csumisa\u201d, le dije que \u201cobediente\u201d. Luego que qu\u00e9 quer\u00eda decir \u201cconciliadora\u201d, \u201cque no pelea, que no quiere imponer, que busca el acuerdo\u201d, le respond\u00ed. De \u201cd\u00e9bil\u201d, dijo que s\u00ed entend\u00eda. Qued\u00f3 pensando un rato y nos respondi\u00f3: \u201c<i>creo no conozco esas cosas<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">As\u00ed que, disc\u00falpenme si vivimos en otro mundo, pero no conocemos a ninguna compa\u00f1era que sea sumisa, conciliadora y d\u00e9bil. Tal vez porque si lo fueran, no ser\u00edan zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Sin embargo, creo que en estas tierras, \u00e9se experimento tendr\u00eda tal vez el mismo resultado, pero con la razones en contra, a favor. Es decir, elegir\u00edan al hombre precisamente porque la mujer no es sumisa, ni conciliadora, ni mucho menos d\u00e9bil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Y les menciono esto, por lo que a continuaci\u00f3n explico:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">La an\u00e9cdota me la cont\u00f3 el Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s y se las narro aqu\u00ed, despu\u00e9s de confirmar los detalles con \u00e9l.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Debi\u00f3 haber sido en un caracol, en una reuni\u00f3n para el curso de la Hidra que se dio a mensajeros y mensajeras, no est\u00e1 seguro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El asunto es que una compa\u00f1era <i><b>j\u00f3vena<\/b><\/i> lo top\u00f3 al SubMoy y le dijo algo como \u201c<i>O\u00ed compa\u00f1ero subcomandante, yo tengo una duda a ver si lo puedes resolver<\/i>\u201d (el cambio continuo del femenino al masculino en una misma oraci\u00f3n no debe sorprenderles, es ya parte del \u201cmodo\u201d en que se habla la castilla en muchas de las comunidades).<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El SubMoy le respondi\u00f3 algo como \u201c<i>bueno compa\u00f1era, dime y si s\u00ed s\u00e9, te respondo; y si no, pues vamos a ver c\u00f3mo le hacemos<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Se ve\u00eda que la <i><b>j\u00f3vena<\/b><\/i> ten\u00eda d\u00edas y noches con la pregunta rond\u00e1ndole la cabeza, as\u00ed que la solt\u00f3 sin titubear:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><i>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 esa flor es de ese color, por qu\u00e9 tiene esa forma, por qu\u00e9 tiene ese olor?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Ella no se detuvo ah\u00ed. Sent\u00eda que hab\u00eda librado el obst\u00e1culo principal (expresar la pregunta), as\u00ed que se sigui\u00f3 de largo:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201c<i>Y no quiero que me respondan que la madre tierra con su sabidur\u00eda as\u00ed la hizo a la flor, o que el Dios, o lo que sea. Quiero saber cu\u00e1l es la respuesta cient\u00edfica<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El SubMoy pudo haber respondido lo que cualquier militar, de izquierda o de derecha, hubiera respondido: que se dejara la compa\u00f1era de tonter\u00edas y se fuera a la posta, o al trabajo que le tocaba, o que se pusiera a estudiar los 7 principios, o que se aprendiera bien la explicaci\u00f3n de la Hidra; o tal vez la hubiera remitido a la JBG o al MAREZ o a la comisi\u00f3n de educaci\u00f3n o de salud.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Pudo haber hecho eso, pero no lo hizo. El SubMoy me explic\u00f3 lo que le respondi\u00f3, cierto. Pero yo me qued\u00e9 pensando en la multitud de opciones que, en diferentes calendarios y geograf\u00edas, hubieran inspirado otras respuestas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Ya con todo eso pasado, a m\u00ed, alquimista in\u00e9dito y anacr\u00f3nico, se me ocurre que la compa\u00f1era zapatista no esperaba que el SubMoy le respondiera por qu\u00e9 la mentada flor era la flor que era, sino que captara, como quien dice, la complejidad que en esa flor se anidaba<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Tan s\u00f3lo la pregunta y quien la hac\u00eda, ya daba para un seminario completo de historia del zapatismo. No, no los voy a abrumar cont\u00e1ndoles una historia que seguro no les interesa. Ustedes ahora, como yo entonces, est\u00e1n m\u00e1s interesados en saber qu\u00e9 le respondi\u00f3 el SubMoy a la compa\u00f1era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El SubMoy me cont\u00f3, con el tono pausado y did\u00e1ctico que es su modo de por s\u00ed, que se dio cuenta de que, detr\u00e1s de esa pregunta, hab\u00eda no s\u00f3lo una pregunta, sino una pregunta todav\u00eda m\u00e1s grande.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Una pregunta que ten\u00eda qu\u00e9 ver con lo que, entonces y ahora, se refiere a los cambios que hay en las comunidades zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">La compa\u00f1era <i><b>j\u00f3vena<\/b><\/i>, a diferencia de su madre y de su abuela cuando ten\u00edan la misma edad, ha ya rechazado dos propuestas matrimoniales (\u201c<i>acaso estoy pensando en marido<\/i>\u201d, fue la id\u00e9ntica respuesta que recibieron los 2 pretendientes que, previamente, se hab\u00edan vaciado medio frasco de loci\u00f3n y se hab\u00edan peinado con un gel que les durar\u00e1 siglos); habla con fluidez dos lenguas, la materna y la castilla; sabe leer y escribir con una correcci\u00f3n que ya quisieran estudiantes de licenciatura de cierta universidad nacional; ha cursado la primaria y la secundaria aut\u00f3nomas; se desempe\u00f1a como promotora de salud y Tercio Compa; maneja sin dificultad la computadora y hasta 3 sistemas operativos distintos (iOS, Windows y Linux), adem\u00e1s de c\u00e1mara y programas de edici\u00f3n de video; y navega con soltura en internet, claro, siempre que el clima atmosf\u00e9rico le permita al enlace satelital de la JBG superar la barrera de upload y download de 0,05 kilobites por segundo, y que el l\u00edmite contratado no se haya agotado con las denuncias de las comunidades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Con esos antecedentes, era de esperar que no quedara satisfecha con la respuesta de \u201c<i>la madre tierra, con su infinita sabidur\u00eda, ha hecho esa flor as\u00ed como es, porque todo est\u00e1 en armon\u00eda con la fuerza universal que emana de la naturaleza<\/i>\u201d (aqu\u00ed pueden todos cerrar los ojos, tomarse de las manos y repetir conmigo \u201c<i>ommm, ommmm<\/i>\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">O ser\u00eda l\u00f3gico pensar que, cuando su madre, como respuesta a la pregunta, la hubiera mandado por agua o por le\u00f1a, la <i><b>j\u00f3vena<\/b><\/i> fuera por las susodichas sin rezongar, pero rumiando la pregunta en el camino de 4 kil\u00f3metros a por la le\u00f1a, o de 2 km a por el agua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Claro, si les digo que la <i><b>j\u00f3vena<\/b><\/i> zapatista de la pregunta se llama \u201cAzucena\u201d, o \u201cCamelia\u201d, o \u201cDalia\u201d, o \u201cJazm\u00edn\u201d, o \u201cVioleta\u201d, o, claro, \u201cFlor\u201d, ustedes van a pensar si no son ya suficientes las obviedades absurdas como para seguir lloviendo sobre mojado, as\u00ed que no, no tiene ninguno de esos nombres. Y no les dir\u00e9 la verdad, a saber, que la compa\u00f1era se llama Rosita, su mam\u00e1 se llama Rosa y su abuela se llama Rosal\u00eda. Imaginen el horror si la compa\u00f1era tiene una cr\u00eda hembra, seguro le va a poner de nombre \u201cRosit\u00eda\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Bueno, el asunto es que, cuando unos d\u00edas despu\u00e9s, el SubMoy me dijo que ten\u00edamos que pensar en c\u00f3mo contactar a los cient\u00edficos, yo puse la misma cara de extra\u00f1eza que pusieron ustedes cuando vieron el t\u00edtulo de esta participaci\u00f3n. Por supuesto que el SubMoy no se dio por aludido, as\u00ed que me oblig\u00f3 a preguntarle: \u201c<i>\u00bfy eso por qu\u00e9, o a qu\u00e9 viene?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El SupMoy encendi\u00f3 un cigarrillo y me respondi\u00f3 lac\u00f3nico: \u201c<i>La culpa es de la flor<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Yo, claro, a mi vez encend\u00ed la pipa y qued\u00e9 callado, pero puse cara de \u201c<i>ah, \u00bfte cae?<\/i>\u201d. Nah, no es cierto, puse cara de \u201c<i>\u00a1\u00bfWhat?!<\/i>\u201d. Nah, tampoco es cierto. Pero de algo puse cara, porque no tra\u00eda pasamonta\u00f1as y el SubMoy se r\u00edo y me explic\u00f3 lo que antes les he referido.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El contexto, como quien dice, de la pregunta, y la respuesta, es lo que el SubMoy les platicar\u00e1 ma\u00f1ana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">As\u00ed que si a ustedes, cient\u00edficas y cient\u00edficos, cuando ya est\u00e9n de regreso en sus mundos, alguien les pregunta por qu\u00e9 se realiz\u00f3 este encuentro, o a qu\u00e9 vinieron, o de qu\u00e9 se trat\u00f3, o c\u00f3mo les fue, pueden ustedes iniciar su larga o corta respuesta as\u00ed:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\">\u201c<i>La culpa es de la flor<\/i>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Muchas gracias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\">Desde el CIDECI-Unitierra, San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico, Latinoam\u00e9rica, planeta Tierra, Sistema Solar, etc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\">SupGaleano.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\">27 de diciembre del 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><b>Del Cuaderno de Apuntes del Gato-Perro:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"><b>Defensa Zapatista, el arte y la ciencia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">No se ha podido esclarecer bien a bien la raz\u00f3n. Unos dicen que fue una apuesta. Otros que el Pedrito se pas\u00f3 de rosca y as\u00ed le fue. Algunos se\u00f1alan que s\u00f3lo era una pr\u00e1ctica. Los menos, hablan de un partido de f\u00fatbol en toda su forma, decidi\u00e9ndose en los \u00faltimos segundos cuando el \u00e1rbitro, el SupMois\u00e9s, decret\u00f3 la pena m\u00e1xima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El caso, o cosa, seg\u00fan, es que la ni\u00f1a Defensa Zapatista est\u00e1 a unos metros del manch\u00f3n de penal, donde un bal\u00f3n deshilachado espera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">En la porter\u00eda, el Pedrito balancea sus brazos como el portero que fue de lo que fue la selecci\u00f3n de f\u00fatbol de lo que fue la Uni\u00f3n de Rep\u00fablicas Socialistas Sovi\u00e9ticas: Lev Yashin, \u201cla ara\u00f1a negra\u201d. Pedrito sonr\u00ede socarr\u00f3n, pues seg\u00fan \u00e9l, puede predecir a d\u00f3nde dirigir\u00e1 su disparo la ni\u00f1a: \u201c<i>Defensa Zapatista es perfectamente predecible. Como acaba de regresar de la pl\u00e1tica de mensajeras, seguro que tirar\u00e1 abajo y a la izquierda<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Por su parte la ni\u00f1a, que apenas levanta poco m\u00e1s de un metro del suelo, voltea a mirar hacia uno de los costados de la cancha (en realidad es un potrero en el que irrumpen, impertinentes, vacas con becerros, adem\u00e1s de un caballo tuerto).<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">En ese costado se pueden ver: un extra\u00f1o ser, mitad perro y mitad gato, meneando alegre la cola; y a dos individuos que, si no fueran \u00e9stas tierras zapatistas, se podr\u00eda decir que desentonaban totalmente con el paisaje. El uno, de complexi\u00f3n mediana, cabello canoso y corto, portando una especie de gabardina. El otro, flaco, alto y desgarbado, con un elegante gab\u00e1n y un sombrero rid\u00edculo en la cabeza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">La ni\u00f1a va hacia el extra\u00f1o grupo. El caballo choco se acerca tambi\u00e9n. Cuando est\u00e1n reunidos, el hombre delgado dibuja extra\u00f1as figuras sobre el suelo, mientras la ni\u00f1a mira con atenci\u00f3n y asiente cada tanto con la cabeza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">La ni\u00f1a Defensa Zapatista regresa al \u00e1rea grande y toma posici\u00f3n. Inicia un trote hacia el bal\u00f3n, pero se sigue de largo, sin tocar siquiera el esf\u00e9rico, y se detiene a pocos cent\u00edmetros del lado derecho de la porter\u00eda defendida por el Pedrito, que mira receloso a la ni\u00f1a. Defensa Zapatista se ha detenido y, en cuclillas, empieza a escarbar un poco el suelo, de modo de tomar una flor con todo y su ra\u00edz. Con cuidado, la ni\u00f1a lleva la flor en sus manitas, la planta de nuevo lejos de la porter\u00eda y regresa a la cancha.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El respetable est\u00e1 en vilo, intuyendo que est\u00e1 presenciando uno de esos eventos irrepetibles en la historia del mundo mundial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El Pedrito, por su parte, est\u00e1 m\u00e1s que confiado. Si ten\u00eda alguna duda, Defensa Zapatista ha cometido un grave error: al quitar la flor de donde se encontraba, la ni\u00f1a ha delatado la direcci\u00f3n a la que ir\u00e1 su disparo: abajo y a la izquierda de Pedrito. Claro, se dijo Pedrito, porque las ni\u00f1as cuidan las flores, entonces Defensa Zapatista no querr\u00eda que el bal\u00f3n arrancara la flor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Por si faltara m\u00e1s suspenso, la ni\u00f1a se ha colocado no a distancia del bal\u00f3n y frente a la porter\u00eda, sino que se coloca justo a un lado de la pelota y d\u00e1ndole la espalda a un Pedrito que ya sonr\u00ede imaginando las burlas que le har\u00e1 a Defensa Zapatista por el penal fallado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Defensa Zapatista voltea el rostro hacia donde se encuentra el extra\u00f1o ser llamado Gato-perro, quien empieza a dar brinquitos, girando sobre s\u00ed mismo, como un monito bailar\u00edn. La ni\u00f1a sonr\u00ede e inicia un movimiento que dividir\u00e1 las opiniones durante las pr\u00f3ximas d\u00e9cadas:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Unas participantes del CompArte dicen que inici\u00f3 con la primera posici\u00f3n de ballet, levant\u00f3 y recogi\u00f3 su pierna derecha, y empez\u00f3 a girar sobre s\u00ed misma, en el movimiento que llaman \u201c<i>pirouette en dehors<\/i>\u201d, con \u201c<i>relev\u00e9s<\/i>\u201d y \u201c<i>pass\u00e9s<\/i>\u201d rotados. \u201cFue impecable\u201d, a\u00f1adieron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El finado SupMarcos dijo que lo que hab\u00eda ejecutado Defensa Zapatista no era otra cosa que la Ushiro Mawashi Geri Ashi Mawatte, el movimiento de artes marciales que se logra poni\u00e9ndose de espaldas al objetivo, dando un giro de casi 360 grados y culminando con una patada al frente con el tal\u00f3n del pie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Las <i><b>insurgentas<\/b><\/i> reunidas en la c\u00e9lula \u201cComo Mujeres que Somos\u201d, por su parte, dijeron que la flor que recogi\u00f3 Defensa Zapatista era del bejuco conocido como \u201cChenek Caribe\u201d, cuyas flores semejan pollitos o pajaritos y que es con lo que las ni\u00f1as m\u00e1s peque\u00f1as juegan en las comunidades ind\u00edgenas de la Selva Lacandona. El \u201cChenek Caribe\u201d suele florecer en potreros y acahuales, y es un indicador de que la tierra est\u00e1 lista para la siembra de ma\u00edz y frijol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El SupGaleano que, como siempre, est\u00e1 de colado en estos textos, dice que estaba claro que el Pedrito se iba a confundir con lo evidente; que, en efecto, Defensa Zapatista iba a tirar el disparo abajo y la izquierda, pero que Pedrito pens\u00f3 que a SU abajo y a la izquierda, y el tiro fue abajo y a la izquierda s\u00ed, pero desde la perspectiva de la ni\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El Doctor Watson dijo que lo que hizo Defensa Zapatista fue una breve emulaci\u00f3n de la danza-meditaci\u00f3n <i>Sema <\/i>de los Derviches de la orden Suf\u00ed, tal y como la vio en su estancia en Turqu\u00eda, y en la que los danzantes giran sobre s\u00ed mismos y se desplazan, semejando el movimiento de los planetas en el cosmos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">El detective consultor Sherlock Holmes explica que ni una cosa ni la otra, que lo que hizo la ni\u00f1a fue aplicar la explicaci\u00f3n cient\u00edfica que le dio sobre la inercia rotacional de un cuerpo y la aplicaci\u00f3n de la fuerza centr\u00edfuga sobre el esf\u00e9rico. \u201c<i>Elemental, mi querido Watson<\/i>\u201d dijo el detective extraviado en las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano, \u201c<i>era claro que, dado el peso y la estatura de Defensa Zapatista, hab\u00eda que aumentar lo m\u00e1s posible la fuerza con la que conectar\u00e1 el esf\u00e9rico, de modo de darle al bal\u00f3n la velocidad y aceleraci\u00f3n necesarias para recorrer los 11 metros. Claro, las probabilidades de que el disparo tuviera \u00e9xito estaban en 50 y 50%. Es decir, el guardameta bien podr\u00eda moverse al lado contrario, o moverse hacia el lado donde ir\u00eda el bal\u00f3n, deteni\u00e9ndolo sin dificultad.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201c<i>\u00bfY la flor?<\/i>\u201d, pregunt\u00f3 el Doctor Watson. \u201c<i>Ah<\/i>\u201d, respondi\u00f3 Sherlock, \u201c<i>eso, mi querido Watson, es aportaci\u00f3n de la ni\u00f1a y no se me ocurri\u00f3 a m\u00ed. Es m\u00e1s, me sorprendi\u00f3 tanto como al parecer sorprendi\u00f3 al ni\u00f1o que resguardaba el marco. Con eso que hizo, aument\u00f3 las probabilidades de que el portero se moviera hacia la direcci\u00f3n donde se encontraba la flor. Fue algo que, es claro, no ten\u00eda qu\u00e9 ver con la ciencia, ni con el arte. Si me permite Doctor Watson, fue como si ella hubiera logrado sintetizar ambas cosas. Muy interesante, mi querido Watson, muy interesante.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Despu\u00e9s de la algarab\u00eda, los Tercio Compas entrevistaron al Pedrito. Cuestionado sobre la causa del gol recibido, el Pedrito respondi\u00f3 lac\u00f3nico:<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"center\">\u201c<i>La culpa es de la flor\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Doy fe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Guau-miau.<\/p>\n<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cThe flower is to blame\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19808\" src=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43-350x219.jpg\" alt=\"radio-zapatista-43\" width=\"350\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/radio-zapatista-43.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Listen here: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/dia2_galeanoponencia.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n<p>December 27, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this year, on February 30, 2016, the Swedish electronic science magazine, <em>River\u2019s Scientist Research Institute<\/em>, published a study that may revolutionize science and its social applications.<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists, led by Swedish doctors Stod Sverderg, Kurt Wallander, and Stellan Skarsgard, presented a complex, multidisciplinary analysis that arrived at the following provocative conclusion: There exists a direct correlation between the increase in quantity and quality of feminist movements, and the decrease in birth rates.<\/p>\n<p>Combining statistical methods, embryology, molecular biology, genetics, and analytical behavior, the scientists concluded that the rise in the diversity of feminism\u2019s belligerence provokes libido inhibitors in males, thus reduces the rate of frequency of sexual reproduction.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s more. Laboratory analyses established that male spermatozoa exposed to feminist activism are weaker than unexposed spermatozoa. Known as <em>astebizisoermia<\/em>, or \u201clazy spermatozoa\u201d syndrome, it is more prevalent in male populations where feminism occupies a protagonist role in social organization. According to the published article, Dr. Everet Bacstrom of the <em>Rainn Wilson Institute<\/em>, headquartered in London, tested the investigation\u2019s theory with a sample of European, WASP, middle class males and reached the same conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the publication, European feminist activists Chlo\u00eb Sevigny and Sarah Linden said that the study was merely a dirty example of \u201cpatriarchal scientism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Meanwhile, the international advisory center for governments, Odenkirk Associated, declared through its spokespersons, James Gordon and Harvey Bullock, that it recommended that governments in the First World \u201cinhibit the activism and belligerence of feminist groups\u201d so that national birth rates may increase in developed countries. At the same time, they recommended that the governments of Third World countries, particularly in Africa and Latin America, encourage the participation of feminist groups, especially in marginalized zones so that birth rates might decline in those areas, preventing more general social disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>Consulted on the matter, advisors of the European Economic Community, Stella Gibson and Gillian Anderson, refused to confirm or deny that the study is to become the basis for a new international policy between Europe and the Third World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, what I\u2019ve just read to you is an example of the new scientific journalism. Although it is completely my own writing, it is our gift to you all for the December holidays. Take it and conduct an experiment: publish it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t appeal to the written press. With the exception of the author and a diminishing number of people, nobody reads newspapers and magazines to inform themselves. Come on, not even those who write for these places read them. They only look at whatever comments are made about their texts on social media. In fact, it is social media that dictates to them which topics they should cover. Just a couple of months ago, I read a \u201cthought leader\u201d and \u201cexpert analyst\u201d ask their \u201cfollowers\u201d which topic they should cover in their column: \u201cfav, if on the female candidate of the National Indigenistic Congress\u201d (I\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s how they put it), \u201crt if on the great comrade and leader, sun of our way forward, and illustrious builder of the future.\u201d I don\u2019t need to tell you that the rt\u2019s won.<\/p>\n<p>No, if you want to have some \u201cmedia resonance,\u201d then appeal directly as a primary source to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Find one of those social media stars, for example, an adolescent \u201ctwitstar\u201d with hundreds of thousands of followers. Someone constantly preoccupied with giving their fans the type of material that promotes critical tolerance, rational debate, and profound reflection (things that, clearly, are found in abundance in the stimulating environment that is social media). Someone like, for example, John M. Ackerman (253,000 followers). Yes, I know that I said it should be an adolescent, and yes, Mr. John Ackerman is a little long in the tooth, but I\u2019m referring to mental age so bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>After that, \u201cfollow\u201d him and make sure he doesn\u2019t block you. This is very easy; you don\u2019t need to write anything that is even half intelligible. It\u2019s enough to fill your timeline with retweets of all the grand, iron truths that emanate from the keyboard of said person.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, now you only need to somehow get this \u201cinfluencer\u201d to briefly reference the scientific study, and his hundreds of millions of followers will automatically fave or retweet it.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the \u201cscientific\u201d study will become a hit. It will become the basis for future analyses, colloquia, round tables, and it will find entry into the bloated library of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<p>No, you won\u2019t need to worry about anyone taking the time to critically analyze the supposedly scientific article and notice the following:<\/p>\n<p>.- February does not have 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>.- \u201cRiver\u201d is a British police drama where the main character, John River, is played by the Swedish actor Stellan John Skarsg\u00e5rd.<\/p>\n<p>.- Stod Sverderg and Kurt Wallander are characters in the Swedish police TV series \u201cWallander.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.- Everet Backstrom is the name of the main character on a detective TV comedy-drama called \u201cBackstrom,\u201d played by Rainn Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>.- Chlo\u00eb Sevigny is the name of the actress who plays Catherine Jensen in the Danish TV crime drama \u201cThose Who Kill\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.- Sarah Linden is the name of the main character in the U.S. police TV series \u201cThe Killing,\u201d played by Mireille Enos.<\/p>\n<p>.- Bob Odenkirk is the name of the lead actor in the series \u201cBetter Call Saul,\u201d which they say is the prequel to \u201cBreaking Bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.- James Gordon and Harvey Bullock are characters in the show \u201cGotham\u201d<\/p>\n<p>.- The European Economic Community no longer exists. It was disbanded in 2009 to make way for the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>.- And Stella Gibson and Gillian Anderson are the main character and its actress, respectively, in the show \u201cThe Fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here, please forgive me if my English pronunciation is pretty off from international scientific standards, and even sounds like that of a \u201cwet back\u201d of the 1940s, but solidarity with Latino emigrants who currently suffer the Trump nightmare takes surprising, not always obvious paths. In any case, those who are reading rather than listening to these words have no devotion to the horror that is being lived north of the Rio Bravo.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it would have sufficed for any of you to Google these primary references to realize that the ostensibly \u201cscientific study\u201d described above is a complete fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Does science have to worry about these frauds, which reduce scientific activity to a caricature for massive consumption?<\/p>\n<p>Do you all think that only religion and creationism deserve to be challenged? Religion is religion\u2014it doesn\u2019t pretend to be scientific. On the other hand, pseudoscience is a major problem. If you think that you\u2019re in the era of Enlightenment, and you\u2019re happy with ridiculing religious paradigms and staging livestreamed popularity contests where atheists battle believers, then it might be because you haven\u2019t noticed the gaping hole that exists below the waterline of the \u201cship of science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pseudosciences, or false sciences, not only keep on winning, they are becoming acceptable explanations of reality.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t believe me, try undergoing some quartz-based bioenergetic balancing therapy. Or enroll in a course on \u201cThe Theory of Science\u201d in a department of higher learning at a respectable university, and allow yourself the surprise to learn that you\u2019ll need to engage with material under the banner of \u201cScientific Philosophy\u201d (the oxymoron that lives on from even before the time of Prometheus, Sisyphus, and Theseus).<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, the dark times on the horizon now take science from the court dock to the social gallows.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll return to this point in greater depth on another occasion.<\/p>\n<p>For now, this applies to this case, or thing, depending, as you all need to confront the invasion of these false sciences. We Zapatistas confront that, and several other things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>In our participation in yesterday\u2019s first general session, I presented a few of the questions prepared by my compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros, who have been selected to be your students.<\/p>\n<p>Those are not my questions. If they were mine, they would have sounded different. They would have been these types of questions: What relationship is there between squash soup and cognitive deficiency? What are the nutritious qualities of that wondrous food that is referred to as pecan ice cream? Are injections a pseudoscientific form of torture? Etcetera.<\/p>\n<p>So the only thing I did with my compas\u2019 questions is group them together. I removed some of them because we imagined they would be answered in the presentations, as well as for another reason which, if there\u2019s time, I will discuss.<\/p>\n<p>These 200 compa\u00f1eras and compa\u00f1eros, 100 women and 100 men, were selected to attend\u2014that is to say, to respond to collectives. Their presence here is not for their personal interest or benefit. When they leave here, they will each need to return to their collective and describe what this encounter was all about, what they learned or what they didn\u2019t, what they understood or what they didn\u2019t. In other words, they are obligated to socialize knowledge. This is the reason why you see these compas writing and writing in their notebooks, consulting each other with a fervor I doubt you would find in your university\u2019s student body.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to say here is that, although it appears that you are all confronted by 200 masks, in reality, your words will reach tens of thousands of indigenous people who speak different native languages.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it is a little scary. Or a lot, depending.<\/p>\n<p>The interest in science inside the Zapatista communities is legitimate, it is real. But it is relatively new; it has not always been this way. It relates to one of the transformations that our struggle has undergone: our process of constructing our autonomy. That is, our liberty.<\/p>\n<p>This will be elaborated on by the compa\u00f1ero Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s in tomorrow morning\u2019s session. For now, let me just take a moment to provide you with some details:<\/p>\n<p>1.- The indigenous Zapatista communities represented here by these 200 transgressors of the indigenous stereotype that reigns in both the institutional right and left, do not conceive of this encounter as a single event. Please understand: this is not a fleeting moment. They, the Zapatista people, hope that this encounter becomes the beginning of a stable and enduring relationship. They hope to keep in touch with you and maintain an ongoing exchange. Or as the people say, \u201cLet this time be neither the first nor the last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2.- The ways of our ways: So that you don\u2019t become frustrated and so that you understand why there aren\u2019t any questions at the end of each presentation, allow me to explain what our method is as students.<\/p>\n<p>We do not raise individual problems. As a student body, we continue to function as a collective. Everyone takes notes, then after the class or the lecture, the collective gets together and they complete their notes by taking down everybody else\u2019s. This way, if a student had become distracted or understood things differently, the rest can help complete that student\u2019s notes or clarify things for him or her. For example, in yesterday\u2019s presentation, the one written by the physicist and read to us by the doctor, there\u2019s a part where he points out that someone could say that we have no scientific advancements compared to the developed countries because in Mexico we are Indians. A Zapatista compa became really upset at that because, according to him, the physicist was criticizing us for being the indigenous people that we are, and blaming us for the lack of scientific advancement in our country. In the collective recap, they cleared up that the physicist wasn\u2019t saying that, and that he was instead criticizing those who do say that.<\/p>\n<p>With questions, the same thing happens. First the students ask their questions amongst each other. This way, a good part of the questions are answered because the problem was that they didn\u2019t hear, or that they didn\u2019t take down the notes well, or that they didn\u2019t understand what was being said. Another part of their questions, they answer amongst themselves. And then what are left are the questions that truly are collective questions.<\/p>\n<p>I know that, to you, this can appear to be a tedious, slow process, and that at least a few of you might become disillusioned, thinking that we don\u2019t participate, or that you weren\u2019t able to capture our attention. You\u2019d be mistaken: after the collectives get together in each zone, they will write out the questions they came up with and we will send them to you through the same line of communication that we used to invite you to this encounter. At least until we come up with an agreed upon medium and way of keeping in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all of this is part of our certainty that this encounter will be the first of many, and that all of you will keep in touch with your students, and through them, with tens of thousands of Zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>So, have patience. At least the same patience you provide your investigations and experiments, or the type that would otherwise drive you to despair while you wait to learn that your project proposals have been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, allow me to propose the Zapatista methodology par excellence: Answering a question with another question.<\/p>\n<p>With this, you will need to begin your answers with a fundamental question: \u201cWhy do you ask that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So let me explain. Because of the ways of Zapatismo, our practices in the communities do not seek to hegemonize or homogenize. This means that we do not relate only among Zapatistas, and we do not try to make everyone Zapatistas. While our setbacks and mistakes are ours alone, our successes and advancements we share with non-Zapatistas even with anti-Zapatistas. To understand why this is so, it would be necessary to study our history, something that surpasses the aims of this encounter.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it suffices to say that, for example, the health promoters also care for the health of partidistas [political party followers]. So then, if a health promoter is giving out vaccines, it wouldn\u2019t be rare for them to come up against partidistas who refuse because, they argue, vaccines are not natural, or are poisonous, or make you sick, or introduce illnesses into your body, or other superstitions or whatever else, which are due to the fraud that is the government\u2019s health system. In effect, the senior and best promoters of bad health in the partidista communities are the governmental authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, in light of the partidistas\u2019 disasters, the health promoter tries to argue for and convince people that vaccines are good. This is why it\u2019s logical that one of the questions I read yesterday was, \u201cScientifically, is it necessary to vaccinate yourself and why, or are there other ways and\/or forms that substitute vaccines for other things? For example, for whooping cough, measles, smallpox, tetanus, etc?\u201d With this question, they are asking you to provide them with arguments.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same with education promoters, the community radio announcers, and the authorities and coordinators of the collectives.<\/p>\n<p>Another example: when a person in a community convulses or becomes ill and exhibits strange symptoms, the partidistas begin to say that it\u2019s because somebody cast some kind of witchcraft. Because accusations of witchcraft usually end up with lynchings, the Zapatistas take great efforts to convince the partidistas that there is no such thing, that the convulsions have a scientific explanation and not a magical one, and that it\u2019s not witchcraft but epilepsy that provokes those attacks. That\u2019s why they are asking about the supernatural, the occult sciences, telepathy, etcetera. Statistics on this aren\u2019t kept, but more than one partidista is indebted to neoZapatismo for not having been lynched for witchcraft, the evil eye, and things like that.<\/p>\n<p>There are also questions on topics that they have received contradictory views on. For example, genetically modified organisms. There are some who say that they are harmful, and others who say that they are not, and others who say that of course they\u2019re not. So the compas request scientific proof, not the slogans for either of these positions.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the biologist told us about a survey she conducted, it seems to me, using social media. She told us that someone replied that they would participate when she included the option to answer something like, \u201cscience is evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, the Zapatista communities are visited by all kinds of people. The majority come to tell us what we should or should not do. People come, for example, who tell us that it\u2019s good to live in houses with dirt floors and mud and clay walls; that it\u2019s good to walk barefoot; that all of this is beneficial to us because it puts us into direct contact with Mother Nature, allowing us to directly receive the beneficial auras of the universe\u2019s harmony. Don\u2019t laugh at me, thinking I\u2019m exaggerating. I\u2019m transcribing word for word the assessment of a former student of the Zapatista Little School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModernity is evil,\u201d they say, and along with that they include: shoes, manufactured flooring, wall, and roofing material, and science.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, science doesn\u2019t have much going in its favor. Open-pit mining, machines that build hotels and subdivisions, farming techniques imposed by donors and government programs promising \u201cprogress,\u201d have all arrived at its hand.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that religion arrived in indigenous communities by the sword; that is true. But what\u2019s forgotten is that pseudoscience and anti-science have arrived at the hand of good vibes, naturalism as non-religion, esotericism as \u201cancestral knowledge,\u201d and microdosing mushrooms as neo-medicine.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that those things take place in the hipster establishments of San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casa or in certain Coyocan neighborhoods near and dear to your hearts, and that they sound nice while smoking a joint (puff-puff-pass), consuming smart drinks, and ingesting soft drugs. Ok, so everyone escapes from reality according to their respective budgets\u2014we are not judging.<\/p>\n<p>But understand that the challenge that we have proposed to confront as the Zapatistas that we are, requires tools that, I regret to disappoint more than one person out there when I say, ONLY \u201cscientific science\u201d can provide us with\u2014which is how Subcomandante Insurgente Moises refers to the sciences \u201cthat really are sciences,\u201d in distinction to the sciences which are not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-*-<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we also heard about an experiment about something like \u201cscience and gender.\u201d I think that it went like this: they put a man and a woman up for an academic job, each with identical CVs. The search committee was composed of the same number of men and women. They selected the man, were asked why they had selected him and not her, and their response was that the woman was submissive, conciliatory, and weak.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, my biological chemical makeup includes the complete works of de Jos\u00e9 Alfredo Jim\u00e9nez and Pedro Infante, so I celebrated the decision. But then, together with SubMoy, we got to thinking and started doing the figures.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Insurgenta Erika (present here) what she thought about that. She, for her part, asked me what \u201csubmissive\u201d was. I responded, \u201cobedient.\u201d Then she asked me what the word \u201cconciliatory\u201d meant. \u201cThat she doesn\u2019t fight, that she doesn\u2019t impose, that she tries to find an agreement,\u201d I answered. The word \u201cweak\u201d she said she understood. She thought for bit and then told us: \u201cI don\u2019t think I know those things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So then, forgive me if we live in another world, but we don\u2019t know of any compa\u00f1era who is submissive, conciliatory, and weak. Maybe because if they were, they wouldn\u2019t be Zapatistas.<\/p>\n<p>However, I think that in these lands, this experiment would have the same result but for the opposite reasons. That is, they would still select the man but precisely because the woman is neither submissive nor conciliatory, and much less weak.<\/p>\n<p>And I mention this for what I am about to explain:<\/p>\n<p>The following anecdote was told to me by Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s and I narrate it here for you, after having confirmed the details with him.<\/p>\n<p>It may have taken place in a caracol in a meeting for the Hydra course given to the mensajeros and mensajeras, he\u2019s not sure.<\/p>\n<p>What happened was that a compa\u00f1era <strong><em>j\u00f3vena<\/em><\/strong> [female youth] ran into SubMoy and asked him something like, \u201cHey compa\u00f1ero Subcomandante, I have a question. Let\u2019s see if you can answer it.\u201d ([When she said it in Spanish] she kept switching the gendered nouns\u2019 pronouns between masculine and feminine, which is now part of the \u201cway\u201d that Spanish is spoken in many of the communities.)<\/p>\n<p>SubMoy answered something like, \u201cOk compa\u00f1era, tell me and if I know, I\u2019ll answer. And if I don\u2019t, well, let\u2019s see how we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was clear that this question had been spinning in the <strong><em>j\u00f3vena\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> head for many days and nights because she blurted out:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the flower that color, why is it that shape, why does it have that scent?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t stop there. Now having overcome the main obstacle (expressing the question), she added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I don\u2019t want you to tell me that Mother Earth in all her wisdom made the flower like that, or that it was God, or whatever else. I want to know the scientific answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SubMoy could have responded in the way any military type, whether left or right, would have responded: that the compa\u00f1era needed to cut her nonsense and go back to her post, or finish her work, or get to studying the seven principles, or that she study the Hydra lectures. Or maybe he would have referred her to the JBG or MAREZ or to the education or health commission.<\/p>\n<p>He could have done all that, but he didn\u2019t. Yes, SubMoy told me how he answered. But I got to thinking about the multitude of options that, in different calendars and geographies, would have inspired other answers.<\/p>\n<p>Now looking back, it occurs to me, this unpublished anachronistic alchemist, that the compa\u00f1era Zapatista was not looking for SubMoy to answer why the damn flower was the way that it was. Instead, she was looking for him to capture, how they say, all of the complexity that resides within that flower.<\/p>\n<p>With just that question alone and who posed it we could have an entire seminar on the history of Zapatismo. No, I won\u2019t overwhelm you by telling you a story that you surely won\u2019t be interested in. All of you right now, like I was then, are more interested in learning what SubMoy\u2019s answer was for the compa\u00f1era.<\/p>\n<p>SubMoy said to me, in his signature paused, teaching tone, that he had realized that, behind the question there was not only another question, but an even bigger question.<\/p>\n<p>It was a question that had to with what, then and now, are referred to as the changes that have taken place in the Zapatista communities.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><em>j\u00f3vena<\/em><\/strong>, in contrast to her mother and grandmother when they were the same age, has already rejected two marriage proposals (\u201cAs if I were thinking about a husband,\u201d was the identical response that greeted the two suitors who, only moments before, had used up half a bottle of cologne and styled with a gel that will help maintain their hair\u2019s position for centuries); she is fluent in two languages (her mother tongue and Spanish); \u00a0she can read and write with an accuracy that college students at a certain national university would envy; she has completed the primary and secondary autonomous schools; she carries out her duties as a health promoter and Tercio Compa; she can work a computer and on three different operating systems (iOS, Windows, and Linux) without difficulty; in addition to operating cameras and video editing software, she can easily navigate the internet\u2014of course, as long as the atmospheric climate allows the JBG\u2019s satellite link to withstand the upload and download bandwidth of 0.05 kb per second, and that the limit hasn\u2019t already been reached with the communities\u2019 denouncements.<\/p>\n<p>With this background, it\u2019s no surprise that she wasn\u2019t going to be satisfied with the answer about \u201cMother Earth in all her infinite wisdom made the flower like that because everything is in harmony with the universe\u2019s forces that emanate from within nature.\u201d (Here everyone can close their eyes, take each other by the hands, and repeat after me: \u201commm, ommmm.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>It would make sense to assume that, when her mother, in response to her questions, would have instead sent her to fetch water or firewood, the <strong><em>j\u00f3vena<\/em><\/strong> would have gone for the aforementioned items without protest but would have kept pondering the question along her 4 kilometer walk to fetch the wood, and 2 kilometer trip to fetch the water.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if I were to tell you that the <strong><em>j\u00f3vena<\/em><\/strong> Zapatista in question is named Azucena [Lily], or Camelia, or Dalia, or Jazm\u00edn, or Violeta, or sure, Flor [Flower], you are all going to wonder if there aren\u2019t already enough absurdly obvious occurrences that there\u2019s no need to keep on raining on those things that are already wet. And I won\u2019t tell you the truth, which is that the compa\u00f1era\u2019s name is Rosita, that her mother\u2019s name is Rosa, and that her grandmother is Rosalia. Imagine the horror if the compa\u00f1era has a baby girl. For sure her name would end up being Rosit\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the point is that, when days later SubMoy told me that we had to think of how we were going to be in touch with the scientists, I gave him that same confused expression that you all had when you saw the title of this presentation. Of course SubMoy didn\u2019t take it personally, so he forced me to ask him, \u201cWhat\u2019s that mean, where you going with that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SupMoy lit a cigarette and responded laconically, \u201cThe flower is to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For my part, of course, I lit a pipe and remained silent but my facial expression said, \u201cAh, you think?\u201d Nah, that\u2019s not true. I gave him an expression that said, \u201cWhat?!\u201d Nah, that\u2019s not true either. But I did give him some kind of expression because I didn\u2019t have my mask on and SubMoy laughed and explained his response, as I already mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The context, as they say, of the question and of the answer, is what SubMoy will talk to you about tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>So then all you scientists, when you return to your world and somebody asks you what this encounter resulted in, or why you came, or what it was about, or how it went, you can begin your long or short answer this way:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flower is to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>From CIDECI-Unitierra, San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Chiapas, M\u00e9xico, Latin America, planet Earth, Solar System, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SupGaleano.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">December 27, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>From the Notebook of the Cat-Dog: Zapatista Defense, Art, and Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It hasn\u2019t yet been possible to clear up the reason why. Some say that it was a bet. Others say that it was because Pedrito just took it too far. A very small number of people say that what was witnessed that day was an extraordinarily intense game whose result was decided in the final seconds, when the referee, SupMois\u00e9s, called the penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, this places the little girl, Zapatista Defense, only a few meters away from the penalty line, where a frayed ball awaits her.<\/p>\n<p>At the goal, Pedrito holds his arms up above his head like the goal keeper of what used to be the soccer team of what used to be the Soviet Union: Lev Yashin, \u201cThe Black Spider.\u201d Pedrito smiles cunningly, for, according to him, he can already predict where the girl will aim her shot: \u201cZapatista Defense is perfectly predictable. Since she just came back from the discussion with the mensajeras, she will for sure aim her kick below and to the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For her part, the girl, who barely stands a meter off the ground, turns her gaze toward one side of the field. (Actually, it\u2019s a pasture which occasionally erupts with cows and their young calves, in addition to a one-eyed horse.)<\/p>\n<p>On this side you can see: a strange being, half dog and half cat, happily wagging its tail. As well as two individuals who, if these weren\u2019t Zapatista lands, one would say they totally clashed with the landscape. One of them: medium-complexioned, short grey hair, sporting a type of raincoat. The other: skinny, tall, gawky, with an elegant coat and a ridiculous sombrero on his head.<\/p>\n<p>The girl heads toward the strange group. The one-eyed horse comes closer, too. They gather, and the skinny man draws strange figures on the dirt. The girl pays close attention, once in a while, nodding her head.<\/p>\n<p>The girl, Zapatista Defense, returns to the middle of the field and assumes her position. She begins to trot toward the ball but she runs past it, without even touching it. She stops a few centimeters from the right side of the goal that\u2019s being defended by Pedrito, who looks at her suspiciously. Zapatista Defense stops, squats down, and begins to scratch a bit of dirt so that she can pick a flower by its roots. She carefully takes the flower in her hands, replants it far from the goal, and returns to the field.<\/p>\n<p>The audience is in suspense, sensing that they\u2019re witnessing one of those events that will never again be repeated the world over.<\/p>\n<p>Pedrito, for his part, is now more than confident. If he previously had any doubts, Zapatista Defense has committed a serious error: as she moved to pick the flower from its place, the girl signaled the direction she was going to kick to: below and to the left of Pedrito. Clearly, Pedrito told himself, because girls care about flowers, Zapatista Defense didn\u2019t want the ball to uproot the flower.<\/p>\n<p>As if that wasn\u2019t suspenseful enough, the girl has now positioned herself no longer some distance from the ball and in front of the goal. Instead, she is standing right next to the ball with her back turned to a smiling Pedrito who is thinking about all of the ways he will make fun of Zapatista Defense when she misses the penalty kick.<\/p>\n<p>Zapatista Defense turns her face over to where the strange Cat-Dog is, who starts to jump up and down and spin like a little dancing toy. The girl smiles and she initiates a movement that will divide opinions for decades to come:<\/p>\n<p>Some participants from CompArte say that she first began in a ballet position, raised her left leg up, and began to whirl in that movement they call \u201c<em>pirouette en dehors<\/em>\u201d, and \u201c<em>relev\u00e9s<\/em>\u201d and rotating \u201c<em>passes.<\/em>\u201d \u201cIt was impeccable,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The now deceased SupMarcos said that, what Zapatista Defense had just done, was none other than the Ushiro Mawashi Geri Ashi Mawatte, a martial arts technique where you turn your back to your target and spin just about 360 degrees before kicking it with the heel of your foot.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><em>insurgentas<\/em> <\/strong>that were gathered in the section, \u201cLike the Women that we Are,\u201d for their part, said that the flower that Zapatista Defense picked up belonged to the liana known as \u201cChenek Caribe,\u201d whose flowers look like little chicks or little birds, and are what the littlest of girls play with in the indigenous communities of the Lacandon Jungle. The \u201cChenek Caribe\u201d tend to bloom in pastures and tall grasses, signaling that the soil is ready to sow maiz and beans.<\/p>\n<p>SubGaleano who, as always, crashes these stories, says that he was certain that Pedrito would become confused by what was so obvious: that, in effect, Zapatista Defense was going to shoot below and to the left, but Pedrito assumed that it was going to be to HIS below and to the left. The kick did go below and to the left, but from the perspective of the girl.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Watson said that what Zapatista Defense had done was briefly emulate the meditative dance <em>Sema <\/em>practiced by Sufi Dervishes just as he had seen performed live during his stay in Turkey, where the dancers spin their bodies in repetitive circles, imitating the movement of the planets orbiting the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The detective consultant Sherlock Holmes explained that everybody was mistaken. That what the girl did was the application of a scientific explanation he had given her on the rotational inertia of a body, and the application of centrifugal force on the sphere. \u201cElementary, my dear Watson,\u201d said the detective, who found himself lost in the Mexican Southeastern mountains. \u201cIt was clear that, given the height and weight of Zapatista Defense, it was necessary to increase as much as possible the force that was to connect with the sphere, providing the ball the necessary velocity and acceleration to travel 11 meters. Sure, the probability of success was 50\/50. That is, the goalkeeper could have moved toward the opposite side, or moved toward the side the ball was headed to, thus stopping it without difficulty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the flower?\u201d asked Dr. Watson. \u201cAh,\u201d Sherlock responded, \u201cthat, my dear Watson, is the girl\u2019s own contribution which didn\u2019t occur to me. Further, I was surprised as much as the goalie was. With what she did, she increased the chances that the goalie would move toward the direction where she first found the flower. It was something that, of course, had nothing to do with science or with art. If you will permit me, Dr. Watson, it was as if she had succeeded in synthesizing both. Very interesting, my dear Watson, very interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the commotion died down, the Tercio Compas interviewed Pedrito. When they asked him how it was that the ball successfully made it into the goal, Pedrito responded laconically:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flower is to blame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I can vouch for that.<\/p>\n<p>Bark-meow.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] \u201cLa culpa es de la flor\u201d Escucha el audio: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/dia2_galeanoponencia.mp3[\/podcast] 27 de diciembre del 2016. \u201cEl 30 de febrero de este a\u00f1o de 2016, la revista electr\u00f3nica sueca especializada en temas cient\u00edficos, \u201cRiver\u00b4s Scientist Research Institute\u201d, public\u00f3 un estudio que, tal vez, habr\u00e1 de revolucionar las ciencias y su aplicaci\u00f3n al entorno social. 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