This article was published today in La Voz de Almería:
"Bulls and reason"
The weariness that gives me the debate itself bulls, bulls, is proportional to the boredom that consumes me when I go into the streets and see an animal deal mackerel and outcast because of the greed of a few bulls that are choking the party.
I do not want to set the target in the anti-bullfighting "God keep you many years or who weaves the bullrings fraud, as readers will interpret that lying is part of this show. Not always the case, much less. When the miracle happens, when the stars match and art emerges with full force, bullfighting becomes an exciting and beautiful show of courage and purity, sufficient to prove that in the world there is nothing remotely similar.
These days are different views on a possible ban on bullfighting in Catalonia. Among them, we see that some argue that, in fact, is a sublime art, but do not hold up under rational basis. That is, can not defend himself from the reason or reasoning.
Of course, I agree with you, and never better-who, as Ramón Pérez de Ayala and other intellectuals have been using this argument, because if you think about it the bullfighting no rational justification. That said, why do we insist that everything has to be governed by intelligence, to the detriment of the emotions?
At this point, I wonder: does it make sense that a mountain climber risk your life and that of his companions to reach the summit of a mountain eight thousand feet where awaits an outer cold and little else, how are could allow men like Shackleton deepened in frigid south polar icebergs to achieve a feat in principle absurd?, what was remarkable marine as Christopher Columbus and Magellan to sail the seas with infinite uncertainty of not knowing if healthy again and safe home?
Human beings differ from animals in their intelligence and even more on their emotions. And the emotion is, in many cases, to achieve that we consider unattainable or superhuman. Passed by a bull's belly hundred kilos and do it with tremendous elegance while twenty thousand people will say olé! is one of those situations where the adrenaline, endorphins, etc., will become the luckiest guy on Earth. All fans have dreamed of that. Many scientists, writers, businessmen ... precedence out on the shoulders of the Puerta Grande de Las Ventas all your professional achievements.
The comparison between the bulls and Shackleton, Columbus or Magellan is more the case than it seems, because we enter the realm of the purely irrational and passionate. Shackleton's men traveled to the English explorer in search "glory", as put in the notice published in the press adventurer. Those guys were dreaming of something so unintelligible as to be remembered, even at the risk of life frozen in the polar desert. The sailors who inhabited the three ships left for the Indies absorbed by the idea of \u200b\u200ba lunatic who claimed that in the middle of the ocean would not rush to the boats into the abyss. And each other, in the fifteenth century and early twentieth century, had his moments of lucidity, when riots threatened to suspend travel and, therefore, end with dreams. History will undoubtedly be very different if the rebellion had curdled into those ships and in other places.
I'm off these emotions that come at the expense of the suffering of an animal would write another article. What I'm trying to distinguish is the inescapable fact that a person exposes his life for the sake of creating a timeless art that will remain in the retina of thousands of lucky ones who could see a task fraught with natural until the end of the hip. Therein lies the greatness of an art form is now encroach from some areas.
Catalan politicians, in short, prohibit the bulls and thus, a stronghold of glory to which they have privileged access, bullfighters, and a wealth of emotions that cling to some lucky fans. Losing it will lose some of human nature, which dreams of achieving feats that others can not or are unable to achieve. And to me it seems to me to take away the soul based on laws and Decretazo. One day prohibit the ascent of Everest, which ascend through a video game or virtual reality. And society will call this progress.
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