useless myth 
Sisyphus, as cunning as a worker, putting eluded death Thanatos chains and winning with a brief eternity that also collective. No one could die without being led shackled by death. Ares came and everything was back to normal. The Furies, who have found various explanations of its existence, ended up being only three, far less than the plagues of Egypt. Tisiphone, Alecto and punished the wayward Megera whips crowned with brass rings. Closer, Borges Buenos Aires founded in a block of Palermo and provided him, at the same time, unsurpassed dialect.
The myth is, by definition, a false story. Contains the basic trick of evading reality and provides us with a better story than ourselves. The myth, to some extent, is a refuge from what we can do and act in the form of a utopia, a place to shelter from we do not understand.
Given what appears to be a collective need to create a myth in the figure of Nestor Kirchner, the question I think is interesting suggests thinking, Why do we need a myth?
Many of the performances of the wake of former President were aesthetically designed to help build the myth. The closed box is a sample, the absence of the figure of death generates a trail of possible symbolic vitality. On the other hand, the choice of site for the funeral. Failure to do so in Congress and lead to Kirchner living "American patriots" is a disputed set of mythical figure and an elevation and not for the rest of us but the rest of the illustrious dead. The absence of "other" in the wake can be perceived as an exclusive feature of myth, anyone who was not approved by the deceased was entitled to be there. The participation of Javier Grosman adopted the thesis that despite undeniable popular blends a mortuary performance designed to detail. As if anything is missing, it rained.
Peronist Widowhood, disturbing, resulted in the daily pages that it could not have been written ever and the most varied stimulus learners speculations of political analysis. Beyond this the message of the President reinforced the mythical attempt from the narrative of pain, recovery of the figure of Nestor Kirchner (and his supposed legacy) and made clear the intention to continue walking the same trails that mark the former president. Much of the opposition, marked by surprise, helped reinforce the idea of \u200b\u200b"militant" to speak of a person who, after all, since 1983 there was but a public servant and, before that, was a severe beating and real estate dealer. The speeches close to power, meanwhile, totaled emotional traits, and used metaphors and poetry to mark his loyalty - something is a supreme value in the cosmogony Peronist - the figure of the dead. By the head, a few days later suggested see, allegorically of course, her husband walking through presentation at a rally in the province of Cordoba. The chief of staff was confirmed as head of the movement and Soccer for all and will be especially true of Nestor Kirchner. A rather macabre sort of dance builds a scene that mimics "Dance of the Dead" by Edward Munch. In the table, ghostly figures dance a dance without music we can imagine dark and dreary looking, rather than celebration, a grief support for .
In an interesting meeting where I participated in the week with leaders and young professionals from the opposition began to show the effectiveness of the construction of myth. Beyond assessments and characterizations, if something was clear was that the only way to confront the myth - rather the uncritical assumption of its existence - was a myth of equal weight but different tone. The discussion further when he tried to in the past to recreate the lost illusion of old heroes and ancient glories. I believe, reinforces the need for the myth that old idea of \u200b\u200bstrong leadership and the two dimensions together form a cheat device hostile to our democratic life. If we need a myth is because we lack an institutional form capable of processing key conflicts in pluralistic. This need, and his calm acceptance us back an image of democracy too small to have 27 years of life. The idea of \u200b\u200bmyth and its concurrence with the idea of \u200b\u200bstrong leadership suggests that between us the urgency of someone to do the perfect synthesis resulting in our political identity. Not being able to coexist nuestras modestas minorías y administrar los problemas que esa administración comporta, generamos la presencia de un mito poderoso capaz de resumirnos y uniformarmos.
Casi nada está más lejos de la democracia que me gustaría ayudar a construir que la presencia de un liderazgo mítico de esas características. Los peligros inadvertidos en esa construcción, salga bien o salga mal, pueden terminar por desmontar los breves avances que se han hecho en materia institucional. El exceso de confianza que implica creerse la posibilidad de encarnar a las bondades del pueblo es falaz y amenazador y va decididamente en contra de la ampliación de las formas democráticas. Again, exercise tote that lives behind the construction of myth and magic solution offers us think that the political identity in Argentina is populism, contributing to the fragile but widespread idea that Argentina can only be governed by Peronism.
To confront this mythological idea of \u200b\u200bleadership must be in the future. It's so annoyingly conservative idea of \u200b\u200bthe need of a leader who can stand only a look of opposite sign to assimilate the idea of \u200b\u200bdemocracy with hope. If we could provide the same vigor to the idea of \u200b\u200bthe future would changing the direction of the discussion and could begin to move back to conservatism. Impersonating the myth by the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Annunciation give him permission to institute the allegory of the birth of a new way of living and coexisting.
one thing I can not think of it more intolerable for the current state of affairs of Argentina's policy to imagine a concerted leadership ability, pluralistic and tell the hospital that allow democracy from a metaphor of the sacrificial away. The abandonment of the literal burial and the way to a hopeful picture, full of conception and birth as proposed by the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Annunciation can be the most important disruptive feature of recent times. The future of democracy in Argentina may be located, then and in that form narrative, between memory and prophecy.
