Goodbye letter to HC

Nice try... but I have bad news for you: we all are rye in the rye. Also you are.

By the way, I'd never read a book that boring before. I don't care at all about your depressions and complexes: everybody have such. I don't care 'bout your intellectual doubts which seem kinda simple and antiquate. I also do hate from time to time... you know what the most? Those sonuvabitches which judge another people 'cause they don't have anything better to do. I have an idea for you: commit suicide!

I wonder if you did it at the end of the book... I'm stuck at the page one hundred and something... won't go further, by the way.

Today I'll sleep comfortably, no worries all about. Just some weed in my lungs and the certainty that we're all rye in the rye...

Heading North

    I write this sitting on a train with destination A Coruña, the city where I was born. I come right from Barcelona and before I've been in Granada (where I'm studying this year) for three days. The week before, I'd been in Valencia and before in Granada pre-again... And all of this is to head north! 

    I've finally been told, they accepted my solicitude to join the Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin. The next two years I'll be studying the brain from the point of view of the theories of the information. I'll live in the best city on the world!!!!!! 

    And now what? Yep, I need money... therefore I'm begging all around Spain. At interviews here and there, talking with people from many corporations, spar cashes, etc; trying to be kind to them, look well dressed, showing off my English and my German, eating some chocolate while traveling... 

    Sometimes I fall asleep on the train with my iPod music-ing me. Usually when it sounds some Radiohead stuff I kind of have some consciousness and feel the world around... but I'm so around the world that I'm unable to get through to myself anymore and forget whatwhere I'am. Sometimes, usually when some Radiohead stuff is playing I dream I'm back to there where I've never been to. 

Have you got a label?

I do.

Today I went to don blood under request (a girl called home from the center of transfusions). When I got to the place they found out (just asking) that I'm in a homosexual relationship, which automatically excluded me from donning. Doesn't matter it's a monogamous relationship and that both of us have taken proofs recently. It matters that it's a homosexual relationship.

-You have to understand: recently we found 3 positives. All homosexual men which said they'd gotten protection... Maybe a new way for the infection as oral sex...
-Well, heterosexual couples also practice oral sex.

Up to one point I can understand: it's important to keep clean the patients. I wouldn't like to receive infected blood. But when I turned around and walked away I had a second to see the doctor writing in my file "homosexual relationship" and realized I'd gotten a label. Each time I intend to don, doesn't matter if I've been without sex (which hope it doesn't happen...) or whatever, a label will show up and say "ACHTUNG: THIS GUY IS NOT LIKE EVERY ONE".

Laboratory at Home

Have you ever seen those nice experiments with materials on the surface of water forming awesome shapes when growing? They're in some way similar to those of a colonization spreading through a land. And both of these phenomena have a associated entropy, which is related to the order of particles living in our physical space...

If you wanna test all these things taking place at once, you don't need anymore a expensive laboratory under Switzerland nor a supercomputer solving equations. It's enough if you get to live with two guys from any Mediterranean island and let them take the control over your house during several months. After that, you just go back to the kitchen and take as much mesurements as you want on the greatest phenomena of the nature. You'll can see how a colony of cockroaches grows toward the kitchen's door, how the entropy on the sink increased till unbelieveble limits with filthy dishes overboilling the room; and finally, over a pan, you'll can observe how many different kind of bacteria, protozoa or fungi have spread out over the water in it forming a thin film with fractal shape like the one discussed here.

Have a nice day :D!

For free

Nice to attend a University and perceive that your efforts are appreciated. Nice to have Profs who want you to make some work on advanced topics and possibly to have them published in whatever-it's-called-that-scientific-review. Then you don't care not paying attention to your lectures, you don't care not doing the exercises for other Profs because you're going to publish something!! Amazing!! You might be useful for the world eventually.

But of course you're doing it for free: no money if you've not title yet. And you must be thanked because you have the chance, a great chance. The Prof will dispose of you as s/he wish and put and take away the work on/from you whenever s/he wants. You'll make a properly research work... indeed, the work the Prof was to make. Her/his name'll be of course the first and you may be happy if you are 3th or 4th...

Luckily, my tutor in my home university is not like that; but here, in Granada, many masters think they own the world...

The Worst of the Nightmares...

...picture yourself you wake up a Monday morning and you find yourself in a country leaded by a pro-fascist party.

Picture yourself you was living in a country with a party which modernized the infrastructures and gave money for research and for the people to learn languages. You was living in a country where actions against the financial crisis had been energetically impulsed, abetting the investments in the regional economy and ensuring the workers in case of unemployment.

Picture yourself you study abroad with scholarships given by your government and wish to revert your work in your country. Picture yourself the huge amount of people studying abroad had the impression that your country was improving up.

Picture yourself the crowd you left behind in there, who have right to vote and so they do, doesn't want any improvement, nor security against the crisis, nor scholarships for their daughters and sons... picture yourself you go to sleep thousands of kilometers far away from your home and when you wake up you are in the worst of the nightmares...

The function of science is to reassure; the purpose of art is to upset. Therein lies the value of each.

After historical behave of the society facing art or scientific advances, it can not be stated that science has a reassuring function while art upsets. Actually, if we might assume there's a given function for art or science, this function has shown to be morphing through time in both fields.

By starting with the art, and in inverse chronological order: the power of the art to be upsetting is almost completely lost. If not for the staff working at the Tate gallery -as an instance-, a bunch of runners sprinting through the corridors of the museum is only remotely upsetting. Maybe so remotely that you have to look at the prices of such performances for them to be upset. Perhaps at Duchamp's time it was in there the value of the art, but nowadays we should search this value somewhere else or admit art hasn't got any value at all.
Neither historically is the stated point of view valid. Back to the XX's century avant-gardes, the value was found in the ability of seeing the world with new, eye-opening techniques which didn't necessarily present a direct attack to stated topics. As an instance, we can find a great number of religious work, not provocative at all, or purposeless paints or writings consisting only of experiments with forms, colors or rhythms.
Seeing further back into the past, the value of the art came to reside only in the ability of an artist to flatter high society members paying to get the works done. Though many revolutionary valuable oeuvres did actually upset and found through this its value to survive the pass of time, we can't dismiss the fact that truly great advance were made within the safe and comfortable aristocratic world such as the realistic pictures of well stated families, which lead to the develop of the dark chamber techniques; or the paintings of landscapes which brake with the realistic tradition.
Eventually, coming to the origins of art, we find the value of it in the magical notions attached to the symbols printed at jars or in jewels or inside paleolithic caves.

In researching about the value of the science as a reassuring mean, we find that historically science attacked -if not completely removed- the stated beliefs and faiths. As the better instance of such point, the history gifted us with the most influencing intellectual of the history: the biologist Charles Darwin, who even today is found to have a non pretended provocative attitude against the faiths and worships of certain groups. By means of his work "the origin of the species", Darwin directly attacked the deepest beliefs of his contemporaries and created a profound debate which only eventually and after a long time became to be seen as reassuring.
I think, Charles Darwin example shows up that the real value of science has been reassuring only in the scientific ambit, which accepted the results of the theories and experiments and further developed them. But in general, in the society, the real value came only through the removal of deep established topics which lead to a loss of reassured issues.

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