The Right to Delirium - Eduardo Galeano

At the time I heard about Galeano's death, the Uruguayan writer, I listened for the first time to a piece of his work. The right to Delirium (El derecho al Delirio). I found it soinspirational that I immediately wanted to share with my students.

Activity: We read out this piece of work and at the end of the reading students came up with a sentence: "imagine a world where..."

The Right to Delirium - Eduardo Galeano

What if we were to fantasize, even for a moment? Let’s project our vision beyond the current world of infamy and imagine another possible world: a world...

Where the TV will no longer be the most important member of the family, but will be treated like the clothes iron or the washing machine;


Where people will work to live and will not live to work;
Where economists will not call the level of consumption “the standard of living”, nor will they confuse the quantity of things with the quality of life;
Where cooks will not believe that lobsters just love to be boiled alive;
And historians will not believe that countries just love to be invaded;
Where nobody will die of hunger, because nobody will die of indigestion;
Where street children will not be treated like garbage, because there will be no street children;
Where rich children will not be treated like money, because there will be no rich children;
Where education will not be a privilege of those who can pay for it nor will the police be the curse of those who cannot buy them; 

Where food will not be a commodity, or communication a business, because food and communication will be human rights; 

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