Is the development we need only by GDP? Producing more and better goods and services is all we need as a nation? Is the accumulation of material wealth the only sign that describes the desired development, individual and collective? Unleash productive forces is all that deserves attention?
It is unlikely that the answer to those questions is a resounding Yeah. With a greater or lesser level of depth in the analysis, I suppose that, instinctively, a No In response.
After that instinct, let’s say ragically human, social, a wide path of conditions, reasons, senses and attitudes opens.
Development, beyond its reduction to the unbridled accumulation of goods described by capitalism, led to paroxysm in its current ultraliberal stage, implies enhancing the human being, not only to produce and consume, but so that it produces itself in human conditions (bread and beauty).
These include, in a definitive way, the relationship, the link, the connections, the communication, the interdependence between the individuals and the communities in which they are grouped.
Our desired development will be fatuus, inconsistent, unsustainable, if we do not attend, with equal rigor that the material conditions of existence, the quality of our social (public and private) relationship.
For the analysis of the country we want and the type of development that seeks it, we must investigate the contents of the social relations of production (material and spiritual) that are consubstantial.
By appearing this inquiry lane, a wide range of issues such as plurality, subjectivity, socialization, democracy, law, participation, dialogue is opened. It is essential to place them, as a whole, within the variables that must determine the quality of development we want as a country.
Sbew in extremely that set, I affirm that we will not have a better country, more developed, if we do not treat each other better, which means, at least, listen to us. This is the point I want to get with this reflection.
In that treatment, in that bond, it is decisive, in a decisive way, a contribution that we can make daily, nothing negligible, to the alleged development.
To a large extent, such a contribution is conditioned by a personal decision. This goes through the understandings of reality, so we opt as a senses of life, by the type of behavior that is assumed in relation to otherness, by the quality and scope of critical thinking, by the ethical and moral senses (also psychological) that move the behavior.
The reactions generated by the recent interview with the Cuban singer -songwriter Israel Rojas, in space The desktop, performed by The young Cuba, They are another alert about dialogue as a variable of development that we owe.
Understand here the dialogue in its basic meaning, conversation between two or more people who, in an alternative and respectful way, manifest their ideas and/or affections. Understand at least, in terms of listening and being heard.
It is impossible to aspire to unique understandings about reality. The diversity of perspectives is a resounding fact. Far from a problem, it is an infinite wealth. The challenge is in the ways of living with that diversity, especially when you access the public space, with all the right, to express considerations on the most diverse issues.
However, it is important to observe the quality and scope of that access. What type of tax relationship? What proposal of society does this or that behavior entail? Does it contribute to the collective good or is it reduced to individualistic freedom (without responsibility) to say what it seems and how it seems? Is it accessed with the awareness that no opinion is strictly personal? Is it recognized, paraphrasing the poet, who under every action is life, history, accumulated?
Within this scenario, full of nuances, you decide which side is placed on. You decide the quality of your contribution, minimally in the ways you choose to manifest and defend your ideas.
I say the same in another way: ultimately, the ways in which you share your understandings in public (and private) spaces are not the responsibility of the blockade or the inoperative bureaucracy. The quality of your individual incursion is your choice, it is your responsibility.
As a small parenthesis, and because of the consideration that it is a previous condition that limits or enhances the exchange of ideas in Cuba, it is not idle to remember the plural character, as actors and perspectives, which describes the Cuban reality. If you do not start from assuming that data, little progresses. Crush parenthesis.
It is true that the ways in which we relate, the forms and scope of our interpersonal communication are conditioned by learning, are part of a greater logic concerning power relations; But they are not determined. Unfortunate to learn other ways is also an eligible path.
A good attempt, there when sometimes it seems that there is nothing to do, that there is no exit to the bombardment between deafs, it would be to listen to us, at least that.
Listening implies the willingness to observe the pile of variables underneath, or inside, from another or another that you think. How to achieve a better country without listening to what that idea/desire means for everyone? How to achieve that country with everyone and for the good of all without at least taken into account the set of opinions?
In a global and national scenario in which human coexistence suffers from precariousness, listening to us is an active political attitude for the common good. Listening to us is insufficient, true, but necessary; It is a vital starting point to think about development key.
If the focus of listening is put on ideas and not in the person, if the argument replaces disqualification and moral lynching, if the bad affections become weak in the face of the willingness to understand, if you think it is not reduced to judging, if the simplicity yields land to the nuances, if the good values are not privative of a single place, if the truth is neither of me, but ours, if we disappear. ideological, if not contributedand To indecency and violence, good omens will appear for the development to which we must aspire.
