Wednesday, April 10, 2019
AMLO y las mariposas
AMLO is a unique character. He thinks deeply AND he gets shit done.
No USA politician has ever done both. FDR unquestionably got ALL THE RIGHT SHIT done, but he was a practical thinker, a political mechanic, not an intellectual.
AMLO sometimes offers little tidbits of thought-food. Today's treat:
En tiempos de la 4T es oportuno y aleccionador este poemínimo, que dedico a quienes solo ven el árbol y no miran el bosque.
In the times of the 4th transformation, this poemínimo is instructive, dedicated to those who only see the trees, not the forest.
[Fourth Transformation is AMLO's name for what he's doing, parallel to New Deal. Poemínimo is an elegant portmanteau.]
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MMMH!
Hubo una vez un reino
en el cual la ley principal decía
SERÁS SECTARIO
Resultado?
Las mariposas se negaron a trabajar con las flores
y sucumbió la primavera.
Mauricio Redoles
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Google Translate seems to get it right:
There was once a kingdom
in which the main law said
THOU SHALT BE SECTARIAN
Result?
The butterflies refused to work with the flowers
and the spring succumbed.
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