The Elephant and The Politically Correct Kids Anchor
A dead elephant. Elephants die
That is not something strange, they have since that elephants are elephants, say that for a few million years, are the descendants of all those gigantic fauna disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene.
The point is that an elephant died at the National Zoo, it is not surprising that animals die at the zoo, they do so continuously, for the life of an animal for which his years in captivity and possibly the location or the food is not what it should, overall, as elsewhere, is multifactorial.
The deceased in question was Manyula, an elephant of India who came to El Salvador in the early 1950's, and that most city dwellers, and many people inside the country at some point of our children took us to a pilgrimage to the zoo and saw. Sure
Manyula was the first elephant I've ever seen in my life before had seen photographed in a book, so when I rushed to the tube between his cage of me could not help but be surprised by seeing the huge animal walking from top to bottom. Some he extended his hand and gave him "churritos", I gave you gave me some concern, at heart was a wild, uncontrollable, you should not have lived 60 years in a space the dimensions could not deserved nor had contact with another of his kind, for that reason, among others tantrums every so doing, ended up killing two of his guards.
However, some say he was docile, they had to approach him with respect and apparently the last decades had developed some rapport with some men who visited, it was nice to see when you went into traffic in front of the zoo, I was just there , fund was part of the city, and as my particular history also a lot of Salvadorans meant something in their life history.
As Roque Dalton said in Forbidden Tales of Tom Thumb " The zoo is one of the most popular rides in San Salvador, mainly because to enter and tread not have to pay a penny -that at one time. Cinemas are expensive however, theaters and bars do not exist one can not take the kids "in other words, a country where cultural and leisure can be counted on the fingers of one hand the zoo is a major site.
No need to spend in front of the gate to see the crowd that for economic reasons do not have access to the Gran Via or Multiplaza, movies or go to the beach, so we see them there waiting to come and see the animals, walk under the shade trees and a bit closer to the wild. Nothing is more interesting than the performance of the monkeys and see the faces of people laughing at a natural mirror of our humanity.
And of course, until today, saw an animal the size of a bus walking up down, made our Manyula the nation's largest animal, with the exception of whales that occasionally come to our costs, but it is difficult to see.
I stopped to visit the zoo when I felt that animals should not be caged, I think it should be free and let them be animals, obviously can not boot into a passion to go and release the leopards, lions and monkeys, whereas that they can no longer adapt to the wild, so we'll take that one way or another will die and see how they replace. Yes, I consider worth keeping the bones, is of high educational value and scientific as well somehow perpetuates the memory of the animal, the bones can go and perfectly exhibited at the Museum of Natural History, which currently has a script so poor that my house is more interesting objects that presented in the museum.
So the elephant died, and like everything in this country, on the one hand are those who mourn the death of the elephant and suddenly, almost nothing has emerged a group that criticizes those who weep.
You think you see everything, so I said a few weeks ago when I saw the fans of King Flyp multiplied in the counter on YouTube and then weeks later I heard some who justify the actions of the gang. The latest fashions of the absurd are those who in one way or another object that people feel and bewail the death of the animal.
They are of all those who resent the "media circus" that fed them in some way, and not missing, which lately have become more popular, those who believe in conspiracy theories. They believe that the death of the animal is a smokescreen, or a manipulation to avoid thinking in barrels with drug money or divert attention to the problem of crime, increased law beans or gang, or is Funes of the CIA, or that Chavez is alien, etc, etc, etc.
Others are arguing that it is immoral to mourn Manyula if there is so much death in public hospitals, street children and murder by gangs or drug traffickers. You're right but it has at the same time, because I do not see them carrying medicines to hospitals or feeding him to the unemployed, or taking street children to his house in order, all those things that the "politically correct" charge that they sin by being sensitive animal.
is, if they throw stones will be covered either because they all have glass roofs also many incriminating them to be sensitive does not mean they do not feel the death of a person, days after gang members have been burned a bus rather depressing scenes in the country, I felt fear made a dent in our national moral and senseless violent deaths, although I can not get the mind to imagine people trying to exiting a bus on fire, to be shot from outside by a gang that surely laughed.
Yes, the same gang that "politically correct" has become a victim, somehow legitimizing murder and making a kind of social activism. Said someone out there that people braver and does not believe in transport strikes are those who go by car, the ordinary, yes you are afraid, because in this country, anything is possible.
In any case, Who are we to tell him not to mourn and mourn for the people?, Manyula death is a popular expression, no matter if it's powered by the facebook, internet, radio, television or newspaper, is the reaction of people, interesting anyway. Also its counterpart, the opponents in an effort to contradict, to polarize, maybe that is our deepest curse, never agree among ourselves, or the death of a pachyderm.
may also be that the "politically correct" were never a pet has died, in a sense the elephant, that icon of the city that was with us prisoner since the time of Osorio ended up being typical of sheer endurance a Salvadoran, a huge national mascot.
A pet of all.
