SPEECH TO INTELLECTUALS. 
MUJICA PEPE SPEECH TO INTELLECTUALS.
In the meeting with the intellectuals, on Wednesday, April 29 at the Legislative Palace.
Dear Friends
Life has been extremely generous to me.
has given me endless satisfaction beyond so I never have dared to dream.
Almost all are undeserved. But none more than today: finding now here in the heart of Uruguayan democracy, surrounded by hundreds of talking heads. Cabezas
thinking! A left and right.
thinkers to spray and pray, pa thinkers 'pull pa' above.
Rico Remember the Mac Pato, that millionaire guy Donald Duck swimming in a pool full of money?
The guy had developed a natural sensuality about money.
I like to think as someone who likes to take baths in swimming pools filled with alien intelligence, alien culture, wisdom of others.
The more alien the better.
The less coincides with my little knowledge, the better. SEARCH
The weekly has a beautiful phrase used as a logo:
"What I say do not say as a man knowing, but looking along with you."
For once we agree.
If we agree!
As I say, do not say as Sabiondo farmer or as payador read, I mean looking with you.
I mean, like, because only the ignorant believe that truth is definitive and solid, when he is provisional and gelatinous. Is to be found hiding because he's running en escondite. Y pobre del que emprenda en soledad esta cacería.
Hay que hacerlo con ustedes, con los que han hecho del trabajo intelectual la razón de su vida. Con los que están aquí y con los muchos más que no están.
DE TODAS LAS DISCIPLINAS
Si miran para el costado van a encontrar seguramente algunas caras conocidas porque se trata de gente que se desempeña en espacios de trabajo afines. Pero van a encontrar mucho más caras que les son desconocidas, porque la regla de esta convocatoria ha sido la heterogeneidad.
Aquí están los que se dedican a trabajar con átomos y moléculas y los que se dedican a estudiar las reglas de la producción y el intercambio en la sociedad.
Hay gente de las ciencias básicas y de su casi antípoda, las ciencias sociales; gente de la biología y del teatro, y de la música, de la educación, del derecho y del carnaval.
Y en tren de que no falte nada, hay gente de la economía, de la macroeconomía, de la microeconomía, de la economía comparada y hasta alguno de la economía doméstica.
Todas cabezas pensantes, pero que piensan en distintas cosas y pueden contribuir desde sus distintas disciplinas a mejorar este país.
Y mejorar este país significa muchas cosas, pero desde los acentos que queremos para esta jornada, mejorar el país significa empujar los complejos procesos to multiply by thousands the intellectual power here this meeting.
improve the country, means that in twenty years, for an event like this does not reach the Estadio Centenario, because you leave Uruguay engineers, philosophers and artists to the ears.
Not that we want a country that beat the world records for the sheer pleasure of it.
is because it is shown that, once the intellect is a degree of concentration in a society, it becomes contagious. DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE
If one day fill stadiums of people trained will be because outside, in society, there are hundreds of thousands of Uruguayans have grown su capacidad de pensar.
La inteligencia que le rinde a un país es la inteligencia distribuida.
Es la que no está sólo guardada en los laboratorios o las universidades, sino la que anda por la calle.
La inteligencia que se usa para sembrar, para tornear, para manejar un autoelevador o para programar una computadora.
Para cocinar, para atender bien a un turista, es la misma inteligencia.
Unos subirán más escalones que otros, pero es la misma escalera.
Y los peldaños de abajo son los mismos para la física nuclear que para el manejo de un campo. Para todo se precisa la misma mirada curiosa, hambrienta de conocimiento y muy inconformista.
knowing is completed, because before we knew to be embarrassed by not knowing.
learn because we have itching and that is acquired by cultural transmission, about when we open our eyes to the world.
dream of a country in which the parents show their children grass and you guys say, "You know what that is?, Is a processing plant of the sun's energy and minerals from the earth."
Or show them the night sky and make little foot in that show to make them think of the heavenly bodies, the speed of light and transmission of waves.
And do not worry, guys like these Uruguayans will continue playing football. Only in one of these, while chopping the ball come to think both the elasticity of the materials that make it bounce. Ability to interrogate
had a saying: "Do not give fish to a child, teach him to fish." Today
should say: "Do not give a figure to the child, teach him to think."
As we go, the knowledge repositories are not going to be more in our heads, but out there, available to search online.
There will be all the information, all data, everything is already known. In other words, they will be all the answers. What is not is going to be all the questions.
The capacity to question will be the thing. In the fertile ability to ask questions, which trigger new research efforts and learning.
And that is down there, marking almost to the bone of your head, so deep that we have almost no consciousness. Just learn to see the world with a question mark, and that becomes the natural way of seeing the world.
is acquired early and with us forever. And above all, dear friends, is contagious.
At all times, have been you who are engaged in intellectual activity, those responsible for scattering the seed.
Or to put it palabras que nos son muy queridas: ustedes han sido los encargados de encender la admirable alarma.
Por favor, vayan y contagien. ¡No perdonen a nadie!
Necesitamos un tipo de cultura que se propague en el aire, entre en los hogares, se cuele en las cocinas y esté hasta en el cuarto de baño.
Cuando se consigue eso, se ganó el partido casi para siempre. Porque se quiebra la ignorancia esencial que hace débiles a muchos, una generación tras otra.
EL CONOCIMIENTO ES PLACER
Necesitamos masificar la inteligencia, primero que nada para hacernos productores más potentes. Y eso es casi una cuestión de supervivencia.
Pero en esta vida, no se trata sólo de producir: también hay que disfrutar. Ustedes saben mejor que nadie que en el conocimiento y la cultura no sólo hay esfuerzo sino también placer.
Dicen que la gente que trota por la rambla, llega un punto en el que entra en una especie de éxtasis donde ya no existe el cansancio y sólo queda el placer.
Creo que con el conocimiento y la cultura pasa lo mismo. Llega un punto donde estudiar, o investigar, o aprender, ya no es un esfuerzo y es puro disfrute.
¡Qué bueno sería que estos manjares estuvieran a disposición de mucha gente!
Qué bueno sería, si en la canasta de la calidad de la vida que el Uruguay puede ofrecer a su gente, hubiera a lot of intellectual consumption. Not because it's fashionable but because it is pleasurable. Because
enjoy, with the same intensity with which you can enjoy a bowl of noodles.
There is no mandatory list of things that make us happy!
Some may think that the ideal world is a place full of shopping centers. In this world people are happy because everyone can leave bags full of new clothing and appliance boxes
... I have nothing against that vision, just say it's not the only possible.
say that we can also think of a country where people choose to fix things rather than throw them out, choose a small car instead a big car, choosing instead to wrap up the heat.
waste is not what they do more mature companies. Go to Holland and see the city full of bicycles. There is going to realize that consumerism is not the choice of the true aristocracy of humanity. It is the choice of novelero and frivolous. The Dutch ride bikes, use them to go to work but also to go to concerts or parks.
Because they have reached a level where their happiness is fed daily consumption of both material and intellectual.
So my friends, go and spreading the joy of knowledge. In parallel, my modest contribution will be trying to walk the bike Uruguayan cycling ... MAVERICK
Les asked before catching the curious eyes of the world, which is in the DNA of intellectual work. And now I enlarge the order and I ask you catching nonconformity.
I am convinced that this country needs a new epidemic of discontent as the intellectuals generated decades ago.
In Uruguay, we are in the political arena on the left are sons or nephews of that weekly march of the great Carlos Quijano. That generation of intellectuals had set itself the task of critical consciousness of the nation. They walked with pins clicking on the hand and deflating balloons myths.
Especially the myth of multichampion Uruguay. Champion of culture, education, social development and democracy. What we would be champions of anything!
and least in those years, the decades of the fifties and sixties, where the only record that we managed to win was that of the Latin American country that grew at least twenty years. We just beat Haiti in the ranking.
These intellectuals helped to demolish one of the Nap Uruguay conformist. For all its faults, we prefer this stage where we are more humble and located in real stature that we have in the world.
But we need to get my dissatisfaction and try to stick it under the skin the entire Uruguay. Before
told that the intelligence that serves a country is distributed intelligence.
now say that the disagreement that serves a country is distributed nonconformity. Which has invaded everyday life and leads us to wonder if what I'm doing can not do better.
The disagreement is in the nature of the work you do. Is needed to make us all second nature ..
A culture of dissent is what keeps us stop to get more kilos per hectare of wheat or more liters per dairy cow.
Everything, absolutely everything, you can do a little better than yesterday.
From making a bed in a hotel in an integrated circuit array.
need an epidemic of nonconformity. And that is also cultural, it also radiates from the intellectual center of society to its periphery. It's the inconsistency that has earned the respect to small companies and what they do. There
walk the Swiss, four crazy cats like us, who have the luxury to go around selling quality Swiss or Swiss precision. I would say that what we really sell is Swiss intelligence and nonconformity, that they have spread all over society.
EDUCATION IS THE WAY
And friends, the bridge between this today and that tomorrow we want has a name and is called education. And look who is a long and difficult bridge to cross.
Because one thing is the rhetoric of education and another thing is that we decide to make the sacrifices involved to launch a major educational effort and sustain it over time.
Investments in education are slow performance, do not look to any government move to delay resistance and force other demands.
But you have to do it.
We owe it to our children and grandchildren.
must happen now, when still fresh miracle of Internet technology and open up unprecedented opportunities access to knowledge. I was raised on the radio, saw the birth of the television, then television in color, then the satellite transmissions.
later turned out on my TV appeared forty channels, including those who were transmitting live from the U.S., Spain and Italy.
Then the cell and then the computer, which initially served only to process numbers. Each one of those times, I stayed with my mouth open.
Internet
But now I ran out of capacity to surprise. I feel like those humans who saw a wheel for the first time. Or as those who saw the fire first. One
feels he was fortunate to live a milestone in history.
are opening the doors of all libraries and all museums will be available to all journals and all the books in the world.
And probably all movies and music from all over the world. It's overwhelming. So we need all Uruguayans, and especially the swimmers uruguayita in that stream.
have to get to the stream and surf on it like a duck to water. Succeed if this is strong intellectual matrix of which we spoke earlier.
Chiquilines know if our reasoning in order and know the questions to be worthwhile. It's like a run in two tracks, up there in the world's ocean of information, down here preparing for transatlantic shipping.
full-time schools, colleges in the interior, overcrowded tertiary education.
And probably English since kindergarten in public education.
Because English is the language spoken by the Yankees, is the language that the Chinese understand the world.
can not be outside. We can not leave out our Chiquilines. These are the tools that enable us to interact with the universal explosion of knowledge.
This new world we do not simplify life, to us complicated. It forces us to go further and deeper into education. There is no greater task before us.
The ideal
STATE SERVICE Dear friends, we are at election time. Blessed and cursed at election time. Cursed, because we get to fight and run races with us. Blessed, because they allow us civilized coexistence.
And again blessed, because with all its imperfections, make us masters of our fate. Here we all learned that the worst democracy is preferable to the best dictatorship.
In election time, we all organized in groups, factions and parties, we are surrounded by technicians and professionals, and paraded in front of the sovereign. Hay adrenalina y entusiasmo.
Pero después, alguien gana y alguien pierde. Y eso no debería ser un drama. Con unos o con otros, la democracia uruguaya seguirá su camino e irá encontrando las fórmulas hacia el bienestar.
Nos toque el lugar que nos toque, allí vamos a estar tratando de poner el hombro. Y estoy seguro de que ustedes también.
La sociedad, el Estado y el Gobierno precisan de sus muchos talentos. Y precisan aún más de su actitud idealista.
Los que estamos aquí, nos acercamos a la política para servir, NO para servirnos del Estado. La buena fe es nuestra única intransigencia. Casi todo lo demás es negociable.
Gracias por with me.
Well, now opens the pages of a newspaper (any, remember that you have no pre-judgments about them) and reading. Lee with all your insight but, attention, without getting involved, you are a abroad who are interested in knowing the reality of that exotic country called Argentina. 
