Necesitamos nuevos ciudadanos para nuevas democracias | Alvaro Salgado | TEDxYouth@Valladolid

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the 60 days five thousand dead and 600 thousand

refugees from a genocide rojilla that

It does not finish

America is ready to use its

military ability against pyongyang

the precariousness of work reaches 1.2

millions of people

Spain third country of the union

where the risk has grown the most

of poverty since 2008

this is our world this is our

today this is what if we come out of this

enclosure we can find outside and these

the headlines that anyone can

find in a second bus be a little

by twitter

reading any newspaper or watching

any television news this panorama what

would think etc from home or the law

Indian announced that all true

we will have seen

if the same thing were to come and see us a little

that we are on the verge of a debacle and

however , we continue with

our lives more or less happy but

always with a safe nice routine

stable or maybe not

maybe between us he’s sitting

someone who for one reason or another

is affected by any of these

headers

maybe our world is not so stable

as we sometimes think

I want us to remember a neighborhood moment

sesame and let’s count tell that

certain general problems that

should worry a little in

first place economic crises

all young people the most

we have lived approximately the

half of our life in crisis

to date, 3.7 million are

unemployed in Spain and 36 out of 100

young people are unemployed

many of us here are going to

make the jump to the labor market within

of little time so we should

ask ourselves what awaits us awaits

around the corner

our systems no longer work for

many aspects and they are first of all

unviable for our environment

finished what was given

second people crisis

according to acnur the 2016 left the

chilling figure of 65.6 million

forced displaced 300 thousand more than the

last year

We’ve been three consecutive years

breaking records every three seconds

person has to leave their home and

which is worse 51 percent of the

refugees are children

imagine for a moment being

taken away from your families and

thrown into a hostile world where we

they receive with open arms but

meals distrust

all in the context of a

globalization that has mixed ethnicities and

tremendously different cultures with

the difficulties that this entails and

finally political crisis

the exit the decision of the united kingdom of

leave the European Union and that has

forced the British to break the

close ties that they had achieved with

the continent through it with

world the Catalan crisis that already augurs

tremendous economic repercussions both

for Catalonia as for Spain

we are fed up with our politicians

with participation rates in the

elections that do not reach 70 by

one hundred being its corruption one of

our main concerns and to

another side of the Atlantic

the president tram threatens

military repercussions to Korea

north and begins to prosecute laws against

immigration

someone can deny that we live times

of crisis

something is clear with all this data

our systems do not work have

obsolete and anchored in models

the past that now are

doomed to failure and as inhabitants

of countries and entities

affected by these realities

dramatic

I think we should do a

asks what can we do for

our world that we can do for

our society and this question was the

that I did a day sitting in front of

a computer screen in rotterdam

surrounded by another hundred kids who like

I was reading spinozzi talk about

of how the citizen has to act

against the evil doing of his government in

I understood that moment, I understood that

it’s time to act that it’s time that

let’s be protagonists of our own

history

I want you to see how they write

Chinese the word crisis yes

we interpret the characters by

separately we will find what they mean

danger

yes but also the opportunity and

although it may be surprising

after so glad tidings and

so vivacious that has just shown

considered that as a friend of mine says

you must always be positive never

negative and is that the crises are not

moments of change the peak of a

evolution the moment in which the

trends are transformed and things

they adopt a new direction

so we live a critical moment and

what anyone can say

cabal right now it’s miami that at last and

after

crises are things completely

alien to us not

about which we do not have any

power of intervention

Well, this crisis is not the case

we live has to serve us as a point of

departure for the new era in history

It’s time for what I would like to call

as democratic and who will think it

some have discovered some bone

new in atapuerca although good because

although the bet is understandable no no

because the democratic is much more than

that

not because it’s not our past but

is our future and that is nothing more than

a citizen denounced the new one for a

new time

the cornerstone of new systems

democratic that must be what we

free of this catastrophic dynamic

in what we have joined together lately

its citizen is worth but then in what

it differs from what we call today

citizen it is necessary that the philosophy

it’s the discipline that since the dawn

of history has studied and has

structured thought and the

behavior of human beings be

able to offer us the

inhabitants of the 21st century an ideal if the

philosophy that discipline we see

disappear from school curricula

and that many consider useless other people and

necessary a relic of times

past that is no longer worth following

contemplating the authors that many

here we have studied enjoying

how easy they write and how easy

which is to make text comments of

they in their time collaborated to

create the ideal of your time

the model to follow and for me the goal of

all of us here

but the most democratic and that is nothing

more than an educated and active citizen

this definition has three parts and we

we realize a name and the epithets

so let’s go in parts

is a citizen that is to say is a person

who lives in a society and who for

mere fact of living in the same consists

of certain personal and legal rights

legal political but here it arises

first of the problems

It is not difficult to deny that we live a

scary time the foreigner afraid of

that the one that comes from outside and the citizen

What I propose is not someone who has

born in a country is not native

citizen that I propose is someone who

they inhabit a territory that therefore

is subject to its legislation so

than to acquire immediately the

right to participate in the

configuration of such legislation is

an itinerant global citizen

transversal and therefore national

secondly he is well educated and not

I mean only to know how to give the

thanks or know how to let go before

enter that it is very good and I recommend

that he does it if he practiced in 1808 the

president thomas jefferson

He spoke of education as one of the

most important qualities of the mind

and that is where the tyrants and the

autocrats rule with iron fist and

shrieking and the Democrats brawling

show respect towards others have

of knowing how to show sensitivity his ideas

and your concerns

the democratic loin is the one that speaks

your mind to new ideas that talks to

others that ventures out of the

cavern of platón and that dares to

relate to the rest but always

from the respect

Ortega y Gasset our philosopher more

important spoke of the truth as a

prism that we will only be able to

contemplate if we unite all the

different perspectives

so let’s do one thing let’s close the

eyes and visualize societies and

parliaments where those who have ideas

different

they will not be considered enemies or rivals

not even adversaries but simply

people who knew how to sit down

dialogue and consensus searching for places

common where what will matter will not

were the partisan interests or the

particular but those of the whole of the

society

the democratic loin is the one that seeks

your freedom but look for it with others

is the free man in community is that

that does not seek to win but seeks

finally convince the tenderloin

democratic your active citizen is

the one who understands that we do not have so

only political rights but also

duties because if only of him

we go to your responsibilities in

our representatives

we will have achieved we have achieved that

our democracies become

mere representative governments and not

because we all have a duty to be

active members and participants in the

societies in which we live not because

we all have the opportunity but I say

plus

the obligation to manifest against

those laws that we do not like about

create legislative initiatives

undertake projects that will meet the

shortcomings of our states of

welfare and because they do not collect our

internet phones

the guide find the phone of our

senators and deputies and make them one

call and tell them hear this you’re

doing

I do not like it I think you can do it

otherwise democracy tenderloin

democratic

the government is not an all-powerful entity

that makes and undoes in the democracy of

democratic loin

This is not a mere subject but is

truly sovereign in the democracy of

new citizen

we decide not they decide for

US

for platón the ideal society emerges

when they combine temperance the

Strength and prudence

only thus appears for him justice

agree

today I propose a new triad

capitolina through feeling the

feeling of belonging and of

responsibility towards the territory

dwellers of education and

respect towards others and the

willingness to act and to be agents of

our own destiny

the one that has to be the pillar of

our new democracies of our

tomorrow of our future

the educated citizen and activated the

citizen that we are and we can all be

those of us here who are you who

You really are you are the citizen

that are all those young people who

They ask about their future and what they look for

answers to the problems that we

lurk the democratic loins our

future us

thank you very much

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