In those times, it is said with all respect and all proportion held, there was a shortage of fish and bread, therefore it was miraculous that so little was enough for so many; out of the meager pocket of the apostles came sandwiches and sardines in sufficient quantity for the crowd, it is already seen that the will of those who can and a little organization of those who need it bring about miracles; but these are no more times of omens, but indeed, something can be done.
For many decades, national culture has lived at the expense of scholarships, prices, and the odd advantage, of course, that created a malformed market, with serious distortions, because while it is true that culture is a human right and that it is an obligation It is the State’s responsibility to guarantee everyone’s access to its benefits, as well as the fact that it is an industrial and commercial circle from which many families live. Writers, producers, directors and actors gradually forgot that they required the acceptance of cultural consumers, that the writer had to seduce his readers and leave the ivory tower to experience the democratic practice of crossing the street; Before them, those who did not have access to that land of milk and honey, break their souls into private spending – independents heroically call themselves writers without a publisher, publishers without a distributor and directors without a producer -, among some and the others there were substantial differences, today those differences are about to disappear because there is no support for anyone, the cultural world in Mexico had to rediscover itself. The concept of equality worked towards impoverishment and not towards equality.
Since 2011, a fiscal support, EFIARTE, which has grouped various creative items, has consisted of deductions on ISR to the companies that supported cultural projects that competed to gain the benefit; the aim was to move to products that would be accepted by the public and at the same time increase the quality of the cultural offer in many genres and forums, I witnessed fantastic projects, some of them achieved their goal, others fell through the way, but there was this intention to achieve it, an important attempt. Today that stimulus has become the sphinx of the enigma; two elements came together to make it inaccessible, non-existent; the scarcity of resources with cuts and diminution like never seen before in culture, without immediate support, the pressure on the stimulus increases but there the creator meets another mythological character, who wants to achieve this must enter the labyrinth of Asterion, the Minotaur, which enjoys devouring new products, not only defeats the bureaucracy we were used to, but a system designed to get lost, not to find the exit or face the Minotaur. The vast majority of the projects submitted to the competition do not even succeed in completing a guide with all the necessary elements to start the procedure. The Honorable will tell me, in order not to gain access to the profit, but only the competition, a small publisher – independently – will have to appoint a lawyer who knows the guts of the monster, i.e. a specialist, also an accountant, possibly a designer and of course to an administrator and as my wise grandmother would say, the sauce was all the more expensive than the meatballs.
I suppose that if anything failed in the multiplication of the loaves, not in the one who multiplied them, who could not find fault or defect in Him, but in the apostles who had to distribute the benefits – Santiago has his pocket lost, Peter already he did not know who ate and who was hungry and Judas … Judas … well, that one had already eaten half of what he was supposed to hand out – even so, that early Church would not have gone without dinner, and Jared would have run home from Auntie for some bread, Sarah would have sent her children for some milk skins and Micah, who had his own, would have two pieces of slaughtered and marinated the sheepfold, in short, no one allowed him to die of starvation; those who today have the folly, or have to want to live from culture and also for culture; the organization of reading clubs and the enormous diversity of educational and training offerings achieved in the networks is remarkable, these are studies that evade official recognition because they offer entertainment and cultural training for their content and not for their titles and the people positively respond because what they are interested in learning and knowing is not the piece of paper they are offered, the
certification is born out of the recommendation, the recognition of open audiences and the messages in the networks that do not just serve to gut each other; publishers and production companies have changed their sales and promotion strategies, now it’s the writers who are at the forefront of meetings with their readers, they arrange seminars around their work, they talk to the readers and the actors present their works through digital channels . and use networks as forms of production; A virtuous circle has been created within organized society, but it is not only inadequate, but also has a perverse effect.
Let us return to the shores of the Sea of Galilee, for it appears that the Lord, knowing that He has done all He can and more than anyone, is in His preaching and does not see that the apostles realized that the enormous community begins to hand out their food and then they decide that it is no longer necessary to distribute what the miraculous bags contain and they hand it out among themselves, a few Roman guards making the round to maintain order, the Roman delegate performing the task of espionage although everyone They know what he is doing and Pedro’s friends who put the boats when the Lord and the apostles are presented, after all, the community managed as best it could and no one is going to hold them accountable.
Our parable ends like this, with the Ministry of Culture having already found a way to save support by delegating their responsibility to society, there are clear signs that the cultural circles are organized because they do not let go get lost by getting lost. bullets, but that between texts and pretexts, the damage has already been done, the setback and the loss of the benefits that culture holds for society; for culture is not a neoli-luxury, far from it, it has a leveling effect, it has a balancing effect on general mental health, it is a means of violence and also an element to the critical and democratic sense of to improve the population. That’s just what we’re missing.
* The author is a lawyer and author.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx