La Habitación Propia
calls for
words against fear
Fear
has always flooded our dreams as a species and as individuals. In our first
manifesto after the establishment of LHP we already referred to the crisis with
the media trend of generalising a fiscal lie. But our crisis is not about debt.
It is a crisis of impossibilities. The impossibility of living, eating,
flourishing, or achieving happiness raises frustration and fear in every
individual. More than economic, our crisis is human, in the way that nowadays
too many individuals live overwhelmed by that fear. Fear grows in the vicious
circle of terror, within destruction and death, and it continues an unstoppable
cycle. Fear entrenches us because of its immediate effect: paralysis and,
ultimately, going backwards.
LHP
calls for words against fear, words against destruction—construction; against
ignorance—education; against paralysis—movement. At LHP, we haven't stopped
moving because we do not resort to undoing what has already begun. If we have
recalled generations before, it has been to figure out what can we do for today
and for the future. And we claim responsibility for all the generations living
in this time and (every) place. The responsibility to fight terror with words,
conversations, information, education, meetings, and common grounds should take
us away from cynicism, apathy, indifference, loneliness and despair, among
other proponent of fear. Literature is our history; and words, our tools.