Meaning of warmth as de-schooling tactic

Escuela de Calor is seemingly about nice sunny weather and bar terraces or sun bathing next to swimming pools. Its very name its quite “popular” there is even a song with that phrase.

But this description of a work and its meaning its strictly etymological and political.

Calor can be Heat, but no, in english, calor should be Calidity ( a word that existed but seem disappeared ) but in its absence we can say its about warmth.

What is it Warmth ?

Warmth is what supposedly  only working classes or peasants have, as once one gets up the social ladder, so becomes educated and civilised, so gets colder and colder, controlled, organised and rational.

Warmth too, seems to belong to Southern European Mediterranean folks. Under the freezing cold of the polluted cities of the industrial revolution, North European Romantics ( French, German and English mostly) discovered our South, or That South ( which is theirs and not ours)

So that this inspections, longings and travelings, even mutations, became normative and self assumed by us, as their narrative legacies enter our education via our educated bourgeoisie teachers, writers, intellectuals and politicians.

In a way, us, the Southerners became “the working classes and peasants” of all the Northerners, even if some where deeply impoverished and totally brutalised. This people, sees all of our lands and sea side as places to vomit, shit, piss or buy cheap land to retire as (what they call to themselves) ex-pats. Those Northerners are totally dismissive of our culture, our ancient embed warmth or whatever that we do or like.

They even not try to learn our languages.

In this case we have both, upper classes and working classes of the North, as the barbaric coloniser, exploiter and dismisser of our  various civilisations and social strata.

Of course just few very lost early romantic souls imagined they understood us and moved to our sea sides and cities, copied our art masters and learned from our great writers and philosophers, the rest pillaged the stuff, and take it with them to their castles and now museums or private collections, back to their cold and rainy home.

This is why Escuela de Calor/ Calidity School is two folded, its about claiming our warmth as folks, peasants or working classes, but also as southerners. This is why is so complex to interact on anglo saxon geographies or north european ones and is so complex to be understood fully by them.

Its also essential, that those subjects from colder precedence, understand that if they aim to embody an aural space of decolonisation and de-schooling as a descending towards the warmth, they have to leave a massive empty blank space on their puritan rigidly programmed brains.

Only with solidarity and empathy instead of eurocentric romanticism can a northerner or a bourgeoise from the South, understand what are we talking about.

Can you de-burgese your self? how this could effectively happen?

Can we act and embody certain principles that by been exercised would become powerful enough to affect our neurones and our brain plasticity so that we can see, hear and talk differently and of course most of all feel differently and warmly ?

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