In today's society, Simone de Beauvoir noted in its later years, “it is old, rather than dying, that is what most of humanity looks at” with sorrow and rebellion, “it is worse than death itself. But his only solution to the problem of aging in the “irrational cohesion of our previous life” is truly limited to the part of Maslow's pyramid, it depends entirely on the needs below. So also with Bertrand Russell's key to growing old with content and Ursula K. Le Guin's Reston on the value of the civilization of the elderly. The Great Paradox of Muderness is that we are creatures of weak flesh and refined bone to reduce the power until it reduces the human power, so that the person in the culture is closer to the maturity of the years.
Eva Perón (May 7, 1919 – July 26, 1952) He was in his twenties when he began to change that.
When he was growing up in the countryside of Argentina, he was in other tears of an old man who always came to his family home asking for help, “later that was in him where his humility happened,” later. That embarrassment, he saw, was a structural problem, a structural flaw. And then, we know that the most powerful way to complain is to create, he started to reorganize the program.
After researching all previous efforts in all laws and philosophies, no one gave an adequate solution to the problem of guaranteeing the rights he saw “” the rights of old age “-” Evita wrote. Little did he know then, nine months before his thirtieth birthday, that he would not live to be old.
On August 28, 1948, in front of the eyes of her people, Evita presented the President – her husband – her husband was working hard, to be included in the change of law of the Constitution of Argentina the following year. Addressing the nation, he held the world to account for what he saw as one of our civilization's social indifferences:
The problem of elderly people who are abandoned or dispossessed of the natural environment of life has always been a concern of governments of all nations. Unfortunately, it has never reached an explanatory solution … The matter remains open to all kinds of developments, ideas, even rebirths born of indifference …
In danger, he insisted, he was not inferior ', with the miracle of successfully closing the cycle of human life “- a miracle that seeks society” with a “united” cooperation that includes “all people without exception.” The ten rights he described were not just a political statement but a humanitarian declaration to “all people who want to be loved by those, after contributing to the work necessary to continue living with dignity in the normal life of mankind.”
These are the ten rights, which I have translated into English from the original 1948 document held in the archives of the Argentine Library:
I. Right to assistance
Every elderly person has the right to basic protection, under the auspices and at the expense of his family. In cases of abandonment, it is the duty of the state to provide such protection, or with institutions and foundations made, or built, because of that institution, without disturbing the relatives from any compatibility of the relatives.II. Right in the houses
The right to live in shame with basic household comforts has gone to the human condition.III. Right to be fed
Healthy nutrition, adequate for each person's age and condition, must be given special attention.IV. Right on clothes
Appropriate clothing suitable for the weather is in line with the previous privilege.V. The right to physical health care
Caring for the old health of the elderly must be a special and ongoing concern.VI. Right to ethical health care
The free use of spiritual speech, according to morality and creed, must be guaranteed.VII. The right to entertainment
Elderly people must be recognized as having the right to enjoy a reasonable amount of deviation to fight for the accuracy of their waiting time.VIII. Right to work
When the situation and conditions allow, the work with the treatment of the productive work should be renewed. This will prevent personality decline.Ix. The right to remain silent
To enjoy peace, ease and worry, in the last years of life is the legacy of the elderly.X. The right to respect.
The elderly have the right to be respected and considered by other people.
While Evita affirms that old age is always a right and not a part, the cells turn against her body to deny her that right. But the progress defolague left behind was subject to rebellion. Its word went all over Latin America, so that when the young Chee Guevara passed through Peru on his motorcycle as Evita spoke at thirty-three, with his eldest son who was dying to him and, with his son translating, he translated the rights of the elderly in Argentina. Che “promised enthusiastically to send him.”
Rights, however, are not one-time but an ongoing responsibility of the community they serve. Less than three years after the amendment of the Constitution, Juan Perrowed who is a widower and a military dictator who was complaining about his amendments to the Constitution, to strengthen it voluntarily, that progress is not something that shows up but the wave is a little higher with regular dips. John Steinbeck knew: “All beauty and valor will rise again, then shrink again, rise again,” he wrote sublimely about WWII. “It's not that the evil thing wins – it never will – but it doesn't die.” Zadie Smith knows: “Progress never lasts forever, it will always be threatened, it must be redistributed, renewed and re-examined if it is to be elected. Evita's rebellion may have been killed by the Argentine constitution, but the words with which she ended her speech that the Day of the Day of our country's history:
Our desires are to find more, not only the vulnerable elders of our society, but all the forgotten of the world. Justice and solidarity do not and cannot recognize borders. They seem to be the highest of the human condition, they express the types of divine souls that work our lives and seek to be perfected in the face of eternity… [I have] The eternal faith that these shining rights announced today, presented before the nations of the world, will serve as an inspiration, awaken the spirit, and one day reach, as if otherwise dressed, as the white heads of the weak people of the world.
Nothing else.
