00:09:07.740And at last, after a lot of adventures, after being in jail, after being saved a minute before, being hanged, after a lot of things, he ends up in the king's court.
00:09:29.120and the king gives him the right to be a military and that's a lot because it's that that is the
00:09:38.740right to be a man in those years and he ends up in the pope's court and the pope says that he can
00:09:49.880use the name he wants to so he it becomes legally a man under the authority
00:09:59.080and with the blessing of the king and the pope so he's some kind of a brave and murderer
00:10:07.520crazy picaresque i don't know how to say that in english it's the same in english picaresque yeah
00:10:15.520It's a picaresque character, a criminal picaresque character, I think.
00:10:22.220And that's what he was, brave and murderer.
00:13:50.760And, of course, being a nun and becoming later a military was very strange.
00:13:56.660And being a woman able to do whatever, I don't know, he was not a woman anymore, but well, being able to decide what she wanted to do with her life and to become a man and having the blessing of the king and the pope.
00:14:16.780Well, it's really, really strange. But he was also an Indian killer. He was a conqueror. So you cannot appreciate him too much.0.99
00:14:35.760This is a controversial legacy. He was, you have to respect her, his determination, but he's also a murderer. He kills for stupid things just because he's called stupid or faggot or whatever.
00:14:56.480uh and and okay he's remembered with all of these uh black and grays and whites it's a complex1.00
00:15:08.980figure and there were there made a movie in the 50s in mexico with maria felix maria felix was
00:18:58.820You are going to the virtu side of the world. Indeed, if you think about it, virtu and viril and viril and virtu have the same origin. Virtu has always been viril.
00:19:19.500so he meant well she wanted to reach virtue she wanted to become a man the other way no no no no
00:19:30.280that would never been forgiven by church but she wanted to become a man she wanted virtue
00:19:37.560she was a virgin when they they examined her and i am using her here because for at that instance
00:19:46.780When he was checked by the bishop in Peru, they thought she was a woman.
00:19:57.540It's later when the judge says, no, no, no, no, this is a man and he can be called Antonio.
00:20:04.840You can see a lot of things in this character.
00:20:09.860But he's also a conqueror, a criminal.1.00
00:20:14.540So I guess it's very interesting to see that, well, you are not a good person because you are gay or trans and you don't have to. You can be so motherfucker as anybody else because you are a human being.1.00
00:20:33.340anybody else. And we sometimes forget that we happen to be better. We want to be better. We1.00
00:20:43.200wish to be better than that. But some people don't wish to be better. Antonio, I think he didn't wish
00:20:53.920it. Antonio comes from the Basque region of Spain. So he is different from other Spanish people.
00:21:05.960Can you talk about that? Yes. When you read his autobiography, you surprise many times because1.00
00:21:15.180You read he's running away because he just murdered one people or two people for the most stupid reasons.1.00
00:21:26.320And he's running away and they are searching for him.0.99
00:21:31.100And he meets a soldier that is also Basque.
00:21:35.360And the soldier notices he's Basque and says, oh, you are my brother Basque.
00:21:44.760Okay, I'll save you. And they speak in their language and they help each other always. That is very interesting. They have these strong bonds as people, as a people, as a nation.
00:22:01.720They really had these bonds of language and culture, and they felt different from other people coming from Spain.
00:22:15.980I guess that this happened also with Gallegos or Catalanes.
00:22:22.720No, because how do you build a country?
00:24:19.240Kingdoms were reduced to cinders, and armies scattered like bones in the dust.
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00:29:56.380So, this is not said in the book, but if there is a hummingbird that fits him, there's a flower.
00:30:06.400So, for these people, in the very beginning, there was something like a human being, a god, an animal, and a vegetable.
00:30:19.380table. So there were the three realms of life working for the creation. I find that wiser,
00:30:32.440a lot wiser, than our creation myth, that this man alone making everything. And I think
00:30:43.780they know better than us how the the how life is life is entangled they cut us from earth lives
00:30:57.300of western culture cut us from nature but we are nature we are not another thing so i i feel0.74
00:31:10.000And I think that we're educated in Western cultures like myself and most Argentinians and most Latin Americans need to go away from that culture.
00:31:25.640I think everybody needs to go away from that culture because that culture is killing us, is killing the complex forms of Earth life.1.00
00:32:04.700And this is in your book, too. The book begins with Antonio is in the jungle with the Guarani people. Is this part of why you chose to have to have him in the jungle as part of your book, to have him return to the land and to change in a way?
00:32:25.160Yes. I was thinking a lot about these cultural differences, how we became parasites and how did they not, how did they to stay alive. That is a question. It's very difficult to answer because everything and everybody was trying to kill them and to make their lives miserable.
00:32:53.380And I wanted Antonio to be in the jungle because the jungle is the place where life, let's say it this way, it's sincere, you feel it.
00:33:04.700There's no way you cannot feel it because this is this flower that gets that birth from another flower that gives birth to another plant.
00:33:41.540and when you read his autobiography for instance
00:33:46.460And he describes Lima. It's very astonishing because he only mentions that parts of Lima that were Spain, the university, the convent, the church.
00:34:04.000Well, only, and Lima was the center of a great civilization, and still today you can see things that are not Western, that are from the Incanato.
00:34:22.800And in those days, I guess it was a very magnificent Inca town.
00:38:53.400Because we produce materias prima, raw things like soy, soya, like oil, like gold, the poor, poor, poor cows, meat.
00:39:10.540and to do that they need to kill everything they need no forest no wetlands they need they need
00:39:22.400those huge pieces of land empty so they kill everything and they kill us in the same
00:39:31.480because to to have a lot of soya you have to use a glyphosato from buyer monsanto1.00
00:39:39.580and and that kills people and animals and makes poison of water and of air because they threw it0.91
00:39:51.580from planes and and it's the same with petroleum that with oil the same with gold the same with
00:40:01.300A lot of things. And there is this acceleration, no? In the last 50 years, the most powerful people of the world decided that, okay, we're done. We'll kill everything, become as rich as we can, and then we go to Mars.
00:40:23.700I don't know what they are thinking, but, well, we have this monster, Musk.0.93