Friday, February 18, 2011

Looking without seeing

(ES)

The astronomers scan the sky for answers. You can see stars and planets millions of miles and know the past of the Universe with each pulse of light they receive. Understand our past, looking at the stars.

Thanks to Antoine de Saint-Exupery I discovered that there are millions of planets very close to the planet Earth, so close that we live next to them. We share our lives every day with its inhabitants. Worlds so close that are not known or understood.
Observating these planets let us understand our present and face our future.

In my little world, just by being born into it, I have fundamental rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The equality before the law but may not be discriminated against on grounds of birth, race, sex, religion, political or any other condition or personal or social circumstance. I have the right to life and physical and moral integrity, without, in any case, may be subjected to torture or to cruel or inhuman or degrading treatment. It guarantees religious and ideological freedom, personal freedom, freedom of residence and movement, and freedom of expression. I have the right to privacy, freedom of assembly, association and participation, right to education, right to strike, right to property and right to work.
In contrast, only a few duties: defend my little world, contribute to the maintenance of public expenditure according to my financial capacity, and the duty to work.

Observating other nearby planets, I have discovered that many of them, almost everyone, agrees with the rights and duties of mine, but what surprises me is that in all, including mine, are violated some of these rights and freedoms.

Visit the world you visit, you find women are discriminated against, violated their rights and freedoms restricted.

As children, there are planets where the work in inhuman conditions is their duty, imposed by extreme poverty. And education, something to which they aspire. There is also a world where they are forced to carry arms and defend thieir planet do not know very well what threat.

As has happened many scientists throughout history have discovered what they had before their eyes, but did not see it.

Scientists tend to put their name to the discoveries they make. In my case, I prefer to call it "Saint-Exupéry Law of the Parallel Planets or how to look without seeing", in honor of the author who inspired it.

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye".
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The innocence of childhood should teach adults to look and see the world. Do not let them steal their innocence.

Fuencisla González, with the help of Spanish soldiers deployed in Afghanistan, split between women and children copies of The Little Prince, translated into Dari.

The Little Prince against the Taliban - News of El País 11/19/2010

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