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Editorial Nuestra Mala Y Buena Disposición De Nuestro Ánimo El 11356354 25/01/2009 10:59 p.m. Page 7 LUNES 26 EL SIGLO DE DURANGO A7 Editorial DE ENERO 2009 MÉXICO CATÓN DE POLÍTICA Y COSAS PEORES JACINTO FAYA VIESCA Volupticia y uno de sus hermanos vivían en la gran ciudad. cara”... Lord Rumblefart, maduro caballero de 85 años, con- PALABRAS DE PODER Ella gozaba de gran popularidad entre los hombres, pues trajo nupcias con una muchacha de 20. “Y todas las noches compartía con ellos -claro, en forma onerosa, no gratuita- le hago el amor” -se jactó ante los amigos de su club. Pre- los encantos de que la había dotado Mamá Naturaleza. En gunta uno, escéptico: “¿Todas las noches?”. “Todas -confir- Nuestra mala y cambio él, mujeriego, andaba siempre en apuros económi- ma el vejancón-. Bueno, menos los jueves”. Inquiere el otro: cos. “Hermanita -le dice un día-. Préstame unos cuantos pe- “¿Por qué los jueves no?”. Responde lord Rumblefart: “Por- sos; lo que puedas. Estoy quebrado”. “¡Ay, Impecunio! -pro- que es el día libre de Fortescue, mi valet”. Se extraña el otro: buena disposición testa la muchacha-. No entiendo cómo andas siempre sin “Y ¿qué tiene qué ver en esto Fortescue?”. Explica el lord: “Es dinero. En cambio a mí me sobra”. Responde él: “Eso se ex- el que me ayuda a subírmele a la muchacha, y luego me baja de nuestro ánimo plica porque la fuente de tus ingresos es la causa de mis de ella”... Lleno de regocijo un tipo le comenta a otro: “¡Por egresos”... Babalucas fue con un carpintero. “Maistro -le pi- fin Susiflor me dio anoche el anhelado sí!”. “¡Felicidades! -lo dió-. Necesito que me haga una caja de una pulgada de an- congratula el otro-. ¿Cuándo es la boda?”. Responde el otro: cho, una pulgada de alto, y 36 metros de largo”. El carpinte- “¿Cuál boda?”... Un sujeto relataba la muerte de su esposa, uy probablemente, nada ayuda más al éxi- ro se sorprende. “¿Una pulgada de ancho, una pulgada de que perdió la vida al caer de un quinto piso. “¡Qué trágica to en la vida y a la felicidad de una perso- alto y 36 metros de largo? -exclama con asombro-. ¿Para muerte!” -comenta alguien. “Y eso no es nada -añade el na, que gozar de una buena disposición del qué es esa caja?”. Responde el badulaque: “Mi vecino se hombre-. Mis dos esposas anteriores murieron a consecuen- ánimo, como también, nada hace más in- cambió de ciudad, y necesito mandarle por paquetería una cia de haber comido hongos envenenados”. “¡Qué barbari- Mfeliz a una persona y con mayor seguridad la conduce manguera que me prestó”... La maestra les preguntó a los dad!’ -exclama el otro-. ¡Eso sí que es mala suerte!”. “Así es a una existencia de fracasos, que padecer de una ma- niños si sabían la diferencia entre miedo y pánico. Respon- -confirma el tipo-. Y si mi tercera mujer murió al caer del la disposición del ánimo. dió Pepito: “Miedo es el mío; pánico el de mi papá”. “No en- quinto piso fue porque no quiso comerse los hongos” ... El tiendo” -se desconcierta la profesora. Explica Pepito: “Cuan- marido llegó de un viaje en el preciso instante en que su mu- Una buena disposición del ánimo facilita la relación ar- do no está mi papá yo siento miedo, y me voy a dormir con jer apagaba la luz de la sala, de modo que la habitación que- mónica y afectuosa con las personas, al igual que pade- mi mamá. Cuando no está mi mamá seguramente mi papá dó a oscuras en el momento en que el esposo entró. El hom- cer de una mala disposición del ánimo dificulta las rela- siente pánico, porque se va a dormir con la sirvienta”... El bre tomó en sus brazos a su esposa y ahí mismo, sobre la ciones con los demás. Y siendo ambas disposiciones del señor fue con un cirujano plástico y le dijo: “Doctor: ¿podría alfombra, la hizo objeto de la más apasionada expresión de ánimo tan excepcionalmente importantes para bien o usted operar a mi tía?”. “¿Qué le pasa a su tía? -inquiere el su vehemente amor. Terminado el trance que Anthony Bur- para mal, ¿cuál es la razón de no trabajar por la primera médico-. ¿No vino con usted?”. “No, -dice el señor-. Murió gess llama “the old in and out”, el marido encendió la luz, y y por extinguir la segunda? Simplemente, porque no se ayer”. “Y entonces ¿para qué quiere que la opere?” -se asom- procedió ipso facto e incontinenti a darle a su mujer un tre- nos ha dicho cómo hacerlo. bra el facultativo. “Verá usted -explica el tipo-. Mi tía era sol- mendo mamporro en la cabeza. “¿Por qué me pegas? -le re- terona, y se casó. Por desgracia murió en el momento en clama ella muy ofendida-. ¡Me haces el amor, y luego me Una buena disposición del ánimo impacta en las funcio- que estaba haciendo el amor por primera vez. Queremos maltratas! ¿Por qué?”. Responde el tipo: “Por no haber en- nes fisiológicas y mecánicas de nuestro cuerpo: nos que nos haga usted el favor de borrarle esa sonrisota de la cendido la luz para ver quién era el que llegó”... FIN. sentimos ligeros, nos levantamos y sentamos con facili- dad, sentimos gusto por el movimiento corporal, nues- GENARO LOZANO tros desplazamientos físicos denotan energía. En cam- bio, si nos encontramos en una mala disposición del ánimo, nuestro cuerpo lo sentimos pesado, no hay lige- El elefante espera la revolución reza ni soltura en nuestros movimientos físicos, se nos impone una fuerte rigidez; sentimos incomodidad con nuestras reacciones físicas. UEVA YORK.-¿ Y ahora quién podrá salvarnos? Pa- tiempo que el actual presidente, Mike Duncan, busca su rece ser la pregunta que se refleja detrás de la muy improbable reelección. Nuestra mala disposición del ánimo se manifiesta en falsa cordialidad que han mostrado las caras fa- una languidez de nuestro espíritu. "La pereza, que es mosas del Partido Republicano durante la fies- De todos ellos destacan Steele y Blackwell, ambos afroa- una languidez del alma, constituye un manantial inago- Nta de la transición del poder en Washington DC. ¿Quién po- mericanos. Steele fue uno de los principales oradores du- table del tedio", escribió Fenelón. La mala disposición dría convertirse en el o la redentora que saque al partido rante la Convención Nacional Republicana del 2004. Abo- del ánimo irremediablemente nos conduce al mal hu- del elefante de la era Reagan y que lo aterrice suave y rápi- gado joven, tiene 50 años, es un conservador moderado, mor, la irritabilidad, y a una visión pesimista de la vida y damente en la “abominación” de la nueva nación Obama? disciplinado y carismático. En su sitio web se describe co- del mundo. Sobre esto, Goethe escribió una reflexión mo un republicano de Lincoln y su proyecto para el partido apropiada al caso: "Sucede con el mal humor lo que con En el pasado inmediato hay una lección para los republi- se titula precisamente “En ruta a una revolución republica- la pereza. Hay una especie de pereza a la cual propende canos. En 1992, Bill Clinton, un joven y carismático gober- na.” Hoy es el principal contendiente al cargo, pero en la nuestro cuerpo, lo que no impide que trabajemos con nador de un pequeño estado, se convirtió en presidente. política electoral nada está escrito. ardor y encontremos un verdadero placer en la activi- Su arribo a la presidencia también estuvo acompañado de dad si conseguimos una vez hacernos superiores a esa mayorías demócratas en el Congreso, con 56 senadores Por su lado, Blackwell, psicólogo, educador y periodista de propensión" (la propensión al mal humor). demócratas de un total de 100 y 258 representantes de un 52 años, fue el candidato republicano a la gubernatura de total de 434. Ohio en 2006. Su plataforma para el partido se titula “Un La buena disposición de nuestro ánimo es hermana de la plan conservador para el resurgimiento.” Blackwell está jovialidad, entendida como alegría y una apacibilidad de En el cónclave del Comité Nacional Republicano de 1992, mucho más a la derecha que Steele, por lo que podría re- nuestro ánimo. Estamos joviales cuando vemos que Haley Barbour se convirtió en el presidente de su partido. sultar más atractivo para la base republicana, pero dado el nuestro mundo interior encaja con el mundo exterior, Barbour, en mancuerna con Newt Gingrich, trabajó disci- movimiento de Obama hacia el centro ideológico, elegir a cuando no necesitamos de nada extraordinario para sen- plinadamente en el corto plazo, moviendo a su partido este hombre podría significar un balazo en el pie para los tir elevado nuestro corazón. Nuestra jovialidad es como más a la derecha y elaborando una estrategia electoral pa- republicanos, especialmente entre las nuevas generacio- un imán que atrae hacia nosotros a muchas personas. ra las elecciones intermedias de 1994. El resultado: en 24 nes de votantes. meses se armó lo que entonces se llamó como una “revo- La mala disposición de ánimo es hermana de la triste- lución” republicana en el Congreso. En 1994, los republica- La atención de los medios de comunicación hoy está con- za y hermano del pesimismo. De hecho, cuando una nos retomaron el Senado y rompieron un dominio de 4 dé- centrada en quién podría retar a Obama en el 2012. Los persona padece ya de una crónica mala disposición cadas de los demócratas en la Cámara de Representantes. noticieros especulan si algunos de los gobernadores repu- de ánimo, al saludarla con la mano o con un abrazo, blicanos que saltaron a la notoriedad durante el 2008, Sa- sentimos que nuestra energía se vacía.
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