They are generations of addicts to the “system” that expect “something else” and, from the most absolute poverty (because they do not have something spiritual or material properly) they expect any “stimulus” to feel minimally rewarded, even with a brass sheet in the form of a medal or with a printed paper at the last minute as a diploma to the chivato of the year.
Havana.-They don’t understand how having “fulfilled mission” or “being faithful to the revolution”, having participated in Zafras and marched in the square as many times as they were ordered to do so, today their lives are in misery.
They say in front of the cameras, with indignation, that they “do not understand” but the crutch before releasing the complaint is the best evidence that they do understand absolutely everything for what they are happening, but they fear. Not so much to express your anger but to bring it to those who have caused it. And they know very well who they are.
They are in the last phases of disappointment, but that does not mean that they are entering the first of the rebellion, because it is only enough that some of the ruling clique, surrounded by escorts and repressors, approach them and “explain” them with another lie what they say “do not understand” to convince them of continuing to “resist”, even when the difference between the barrels of the bodies of those who explain and the bodies “They resist” is enough to understand once and for all what must be understood.
There are thousands of images out theretaken in the visits of any of the Camajanes of the PCC to the provinces or state companies, where it is reflected not only the physical “contrast” between those who do not understand and those who know how slogans
In this sense (that of manipulation), “government visits” are not as useless as some think. Because, if it is true that they do not solve anything that should to relieve misery and anger of the crowd, it is also the most effective (and cheapest) solution to calm the spirits of people who, for decades, have been systematically trained to accept their inferiority with respect to the superiority of an elite that today, to top it off, intends They would be a kind of priestly caste.
The bulky bodies, the gestures, the “apparatus” that surrounds its “appearances” (as a poverty carnival) without a doubt they have their psychological effect in those generations of “faithful” that, having accepted, first, that simplicity and blind obedience are merits and, second, that the more humble it is apparent to be Deep, endemic, from which any indication of well -being, of happiness, of “normality” is seen as a privilege, which can only be legitimate if it arrives as a prize awarded by that elite, the only one with total right to enjoy them all at the same time and at the same time.
Simple examples of that, and that many of us accept with total normality, is the old system of “stimuli” that, although ridiculous and offensive, persists until today: the TV granted by the CTC; the Lada, the Moskovich or the Mercedes Benz that we won by the ANAP or by Tabacuba; The week on the beach that the PCC gave us; the reservation in a UJC campism; and even the “mission” of the Minsap or the Inder contract.
The pension increase not because the previous amount was an abuse (and continues to be like this) but because “the government in the background is good”, and makes a thousand sacrifices to “stimulate us.” As they accept as a stimulus from the additional rice book to the “cultural activity” in greeting to August 13. It is an extremely serious mental problem of the generations that were born and aged under Fidel Castro’s boots.
When they say they “do not understand” their situation, they are actually wondering why they have not been “stimulated.” Similarly, when they protest water, light, housing, their claims are not for a right but by absence of that stimulation that they believe deserves based on the accumulated “sacrifices”, where they undoubtedly include the “merit” of not having emigrated, since they retain the old Castro castist that “emigrate” is “betraying”, therefore, remaining in Cuba should be rewarded.
“I deserve a home” because I did not betray; “I deserve to eat because I sacrificed”; “I deserve to be stimulated” by virtue of my faithfulness. In the same way they do not question the privileges of the ruling caste because they have deserved it for being who they are, as well as Fidel Castro and the other “historical” could (and can) make and undo by virtue of the “sacrifice” in the Sierra Maestra.
A privilege that does not hesitate to make them extensive to their descendants for generations, therefore they celebrate and justify as “normal” and even “fun” the stupidities of Sandro, the dollarized hypocrisy of the Guevara and nepotism in the Castro dynasty.
From that logic, more miserable than demential, a good part of the claims that some get to confuse with triggers of a greater rebellion, when it comes to simple anger of an infant that kicks for its chambelona.
What concerns us is only the tantrum that is flattened with any dose of “stimulation.” And this can be from the Agricultural Fair with Topted Prices that precedes any visit of a hierarchy to a town (and that disassemble the route once) until the day without blackouts that give in greeting to July 26.
They are generations of addicts to the “system” that expect “something else” and, from the most absolute poverty (because they do not have something spiritual or material properly) they expect any “stimulus” to feel minimally rewarded, even with a brass sheet in the form of a medal or with a printed paper at the last minute as a diploma to the chivato of the year.
It could cause sorrow in some to observe those wrinkled people, tooth, skinny, badly dressed and possibly badly giving away applause and smiles to their abusers, letting themselves hug and give patted by the same ones that repress them but, let’s strip us of all false sentimentalism and think of the harsh reality that they represent: that of a crowd that forged their own misery and that, precisely for that. Understand that misery is all the final payment for its “sacrifice.”
