My central themes
The core knowledge behind the Sin Culillo (fear) project about politics is threefold: micropolitics, public policies, and complexity.
Together, they generate a dialogue about politics, far from politics, as you would like to make it seem.
Micropolitics
In every small community, political relations exist. Why? Because collective decisions are made that can be consensual or imposed. Since they affect personal life, they are political relations; it's micropolitics. Politics is in the everyday.
Why should you care? Because if you allow other people to make decisions, your life will be out of your hands. What can you do? Lose your fear of politics and what lies behind it: power, money, freedom.
It's also the art of resistance, or hacking the system from within. And what's that for? To regain control of your life and your environment, to understand how politics affects you, to stop complaining and take action.
Política pública
They may say they're a document called public policy; let me tell you, that's not entirely true! They're actually public actions to address an issue over a period of time.
Public actions, outside of the document, can consist of decisions detrimental to social sectors; on the contrary, in documents that call themselves public policies, everything is beautiful.
They relate to the lives of diverse beings, in diverse environments, and are understood beyond official documentation; it's time for citizens to step up and begin to make a bold impact.
Complexity
Complexity is different from complicated. The complexity paradigm relates to the phenomena of life, ethics, and responsibility. It is a way of understanding the world system.
It transcends binary to understand relationships and interests in a range of shades of gray. It's diversity, the whole and the part at the same time. It's the reality of life as you live it.
In politics, it allows us to break away from old, reductionist mental frameworks; it's a way of thinking that embraces uncertainty, contradiction, and chaos in democracy.