La risa es la expresión gestual primera del amor como afirmación de la vida. En este sentido es el principio de la cultura chilena. Para encontrar su sentido histórico se hace imprescindible traspasar los límites y las limitaciones coloniales de Occidente. Se vuelve necesario examinar los gestos amorosos que provienen tanto del mundo indígena como del mundo ibérico. Estos son los fundamentos de nuestra vida cultural. Estos mundos fueron ensombrecidos con la construcción del pequeño Estado nacional burgués durante los siglos XIX y XX. Ese pequeño Estado estuvo inspirado en Atenea, la diosa de la razón y de la fuerza, del bien y de la verdad. Ahí no existió risa ni comicidad verdaderas. Sólo recuperando la imagen de Afrodita, representación de la diosa del amor que ríe, podemos reencontrarnos con la inmensa alegría y la enorme belleza de nuestra legítima convivencia social.
Laughter is the first expressive gesture of love as affirmation of life. In this sense, it is the beginning of Chilean culture. To find its historical significance it is necessary to go beyond the colonial limits and limitations of the West. It becomes necessary to examine loving gestures that come from the Indian world as well as the Iberian world. These are the origins of our cultural life. These worlds were overshadowed by the construction of the petty bourgeois national State during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This petty State was inspired by Athena, the goddess of reason and strength, of goodness and truth. In this space, neither laughter nor true comicalness existed. Only by recovering the image of Aphrodite, the representation of the goddess of love that laughs, can we re-encounter the immense joy and enormous beauty of our legitimate social contract.
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