Unamuno's Dream

The Moors helped to civilize Spain, to draw it into a larger cultural orbit--the great Muslim empires of the East. The Christian barbarians resisted this effort and eventually succeeded--driving first the Jews and then Muslims from the peninsula starting in 1492.

In the late 19th-early 20th centuries, Miguel de Unamuno dreamed of Hispanizing Europe. In his eyes, Spain's retention of a native barbarism was superior to the thinly disguised barbarism of Europe north of the Pyrenees. 

Today, as the governments of barbaric Europe support the genocide of Palestinians (when have Europeans been opposed to genocide?), Spain asserts its independence.

May Unamuno's dream come true.

The Homecoming

                                             Sir John Gilbert, 1866.

Don Quixote

"The most sorrowful part of this adventure was that Don Quixote broke his lance. That is what those giants can do to us: they can break our lances, but not our hearts."

~ Miguel de Unamuno

Enta Omri - Umm Kulthum (Egypt 1946)

Modernismo

                                             The Generation of 1898.

Miguel de Unamuno

                                  Fe que no duda es fe muerta.

Robert Graves

“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought.”

 

~ Robert Graves, The White Goddess, chapter 13.

From Dust to Dust

 

Sabot

 

Bundshuh

 

Anouar Brahem / John Surman / Dave Holland - Live in Switzerland (1998)

Falastin!

 

Get on the right side of history. A settler-colonial ethno-religious state has NO PLACE in the Modern world.