For there to be tyranny must stop bullying people. I know it's hard to say, especially when it is oneself who has fallen into that trap, but I also know that it is necessary. It's time we start to assume the responsibility we have in the current situation of our country. For 5 decades we obediently accepted as leaders and we have decided to subject our destiny to the political objectives of a few. To make a group obedient mass actively seek to transform that reality, it is necessary to understand what we are today and why we are. Without pretending to have all the answers, here are my thoughts on the subject.
How are we today? Walking through the streets of Havana I found a people tired, overwhelmed, terribly overwhelmed by everyday problems more basic. In talking to some of these bystanders, I learned that consider the economic situation is terrible and therefore requires a change. However, do not know well what kind of change is needed or how it could be achieved. The general answer is to seek solutions to individual problems.
Under what circumstances people in this situation would begin to act collectively in order to change their situation? Reading here and there I learned that this people must be convinced of two things:
1: to have bottomed,
2: the system in which they live is unstable and therefore have potential real change.
I wonder then, from the perspective of an ordinary Cubans living outside Cuba, how can you not think it has bottomed out? The answer is not as difficult as it seems. Those living within the island resolve the daily meal by using strategies such as stealing state media, unadulterated products and prices, trade in black market etc.. These mechanisms seem to us morally reprehensible under normal circumstances, however, are tacitly and silently accepted by everyone when it comes to daily survival in a country where the government provides and have no employment has lost its meaning. These strategies are still effective and easier to implement than thrown into the streets to make a second revolution.
On the other hand, members of the top leadership, which seek to perpetuate their status, use various mechanisms to prevent people bottom out and strengthen the belief is not responsible for any problems, but one who solves . Has found a threatening enemy, the U.S. and the exile community, especially in exile in Miami. Additionally, it becomes permissive with regard to the plunder of resources; from time to time creates the illusion that there are improvements taking steps like opening the national tourism hotel, authorize the sale of mobile phones and computers, organize debates which supposedly will discuss problems and solutions. People naively end up accepting those little respites and interpreted as evidence that the state responds to their interests and that things will improve in the future. "Now," he said.
Another factor that helps to reaffirm this state of affairs is the absence of clear alternatives. The ordinary Cubans have been deprived of any access to information and therefore does not know the existence of others who feel as disgusted as the situation he does not know of the activities of dissidents or their moral values. Does not know exactly what is a democracy, how it works and how to set it up less. The little information that censorship allowed to reach your ears on these issues is manipulated to present the opposition as a movement of low moral value and democracy as an invention of genocide.
The Cuban political picture is further complicated by the generational factor. Those who staged the first years of the Revolution, our parents and grandparents did believe that acting on a noble cause. The vast majority of the Revolution was his dream and forget those who had stored under his skin. It is difficult for them to face the fact that the dream has failed and must be discarded. While many begin to wake up to that inescapable reality, they do little, with fear: it is never easy to get off the altar to the gods who once adored.
What, then, to this reality? In my humble condition of newborn blogger, I think we are in the process of educating the masses, organize them. Every voice is needed now and and any initiative that may seem smaller. But it is also necessary for the unity and love for the people are revealed in those voices. authoritarianism, tyranny, are the emergent product of group dynamics. They are the sole responsibility of the tyrants. Is imposed for the good of our island tortured, to help our brothers in misfortune to break the mechanisms that lead us to accept the ruling dictatorship in Cuba.
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