Great spirits have always met violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Despite the fact that currently the key to success lies in being competitive both at a global, national, governmental, business, professional and individual level, the conditions created by the government have been making us less competitive on all the scales mentioned, such luck that the well-being that is longed for is increasingly distant and mediocrity takes over the country in a dangerous and accelerated way. It is enough to see the lost leadership and the positions in which Mexico is in decline in practically all lines of development worldwide.
Sadly, the President aspires to impose paradigm changes so that the productive citizen and social organizations adapt to the transformation actions that he promotes, almost all of them to hinder, discourage and deteriorate the economy, which have occurred in his administration, to lower or eliminate their competitiveness and bring them closer to mediocrity.
The government violates the Constitution, legislation and international treaties; it discourages investment and misses opportunities; it encourages the closure of sources of employment and hinders the education, research and training of quality professionals. Our deficit of qualified people with a projection towards quality in all areas of human activity seems to be ignored.
Excellence should not and cannot be negotiable. The President intends to convince the population that they have to settle for less and practice Franciscan poverty. To this end, it disseminates a series of expressions on a daily basis to criticize those who aspire to progress in order to avoid the search for excellence, as if the desire to improve personal and family life conditions were a sin, and it also promotes measures and actions aimed at general mediocrity.
Against the middle class, he has declared on several occasions that its members are selfish, classist, racist, hypocritical, ladino and with “aspirational” attitudes, who want to succeed at all costs. He evidently despises that the middle class is the one that has created family businesses, businesses and professional services and therefore sources of employment.
The contribution of the middle class to national development is indisputable in all areas.
Another sector in which mediocrity is promoted is the public, since among the officials of the current administration there are many people lacking the required profile, without the minimum experience or training necessary to attend to the responsibilities assigned to them. Blind loyalty is enough for the President. He does not accept thoughtful loyalty. In such a way that now there are cadres of mediocre bureaucrats who deficiently serve key positions in the public service.
Another issue of great relevance is education. In recent reports from UNESCO and the World Bank, Mexico appears among the countries with the greatest decline at the global level, particularly in reading and mathematics. That is why it insists on how essential it is to attend to the four pillars that support education in the 21st century, which are: learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together. Surprisingly, contrary to what has just been exposed, the government promotes a new educational curricular framework that will pervert the objectives that public education should pursue. It is unacceptable to modify basic education programs that seek to transform schools into indoctrination centers, to the detriment of the education that the country demands and needs, taking students hostage to the ruling party based on the models of Soviet schools. and Cuban that, by the way, failed. The automatic pass is longed for and stimulated as a formula for success, as well as the cancellation of evaluations. Nothing more bogus!
If such an aberration prospers, the public school will become a factory for illiterate people condemned to mediocrity.
We are obliged to avoid these and other similar measures since, if they materialize, we will all lose out because we would be establishing the mediocre as a parameter of measurement.
In every social fabric there are those who do not expect or aspire to excellence due to various social and economic circumstances that have made them believe that they do not deserve it. This effect is also currently due to the regime’s welfare programs, since these actions have turned millions of workers into dependents of the government with a miserable income derived from handouts. More than giving away fiscal resources, we must promote training for work and for life, think about the future and not only about the elections. Let us adopt an economic strategy in favor of the most vulnerable so that they can enjoy dignity through work, not alms that debase and degrade as a supposed act of kindness.
It should not be ignored that mediocrity generates frustration in those who suffer from it and frustration is a trigger for conflicts and social controversies in the family, at school and in the community.
If mediocrity is expected of people, that is exactly what will be achieved; but if you expect the best from everyone, you will often see people striving for better standards.
Throughout the history of humanity, it can be seen that personal or individual development is the path to general well-being, which is usually an efficient factor in consolidating harmony and, therefore, the social fabric.
In universal history and in Mexico, there are rulers who stood out as builders of institutions. Likewise, there are those who are determined and are determined to demolish the institutions of their nation, as is currently happening in several countries around the world, ours included.
The more united we are, the stronger we will be, the more divided, the weaker.
*The author is a lawyer, negotiator and professional mediator.
Twitter: @phmergoldd
Lawyer and professional mediator
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