RE: Short-term Memory Loss: the Malady of socialists, chavistas, anti-imperialists Defectors
Aren't you afraid to put all this in writing, in a place you can't really take it off the web after 7 days, in the given situation of Venezuela? I would be afraid of every word I write against this socialist machine. On some level I have to thank you for sharing all this insight with us, on the other I am somehow afraid for you... I have only lived my first 5 years in socialism and I can't remember anything of course but from all I could learn from the people older than me, free speech was clearly not a thing to possess back then or to brag about. The prison was on the table but in uncertain times, even death was an option.
I think Venezuela finds itself yet again, in the crusher that is the fight for power in face of a dying, monolithic regime and I really hope that something even uglier will not come out from all this struggle you people take in order to gain real freedom. Socialists are very hard to take down from power and when you think you really did cut them from power access, you discover in 20 years that somehow the socialist regime didn't really die in the meantime, but rather transformed in a 1000 snake heads, all poisonous, each posing in the most open democrat. People like you will be disgusted when people like this guy will be given different seats in the Government, as the hypocrisy is huge in these dudes. I'm afraid that the wealth of Venezuela will not make this transition easy and the fight for the "liberation of the country" has just started for your country. Unfortunately, this mother fuckers are not giving up so easily and when they have the support of the army things will tend to turn bloody.
Take care of yourself and your family man! I think the hardest days for Venezuela have not even started yet...
Thank you very much. I appreciate your concern.
What can I say, most people live and die in silence and that does not spare them from the indignities of the system. I guess we'd better go with some dignity and say what we think when it may matter.
I think that when living becomes such a mess, dying does not look that intimidating.
We have lost a lot by now and, even though I agree with you that the worst may be yet to come, for many of us it does not make much of a difference.
I think that in the same way peole need reasons to live, they also need models of how to.
Living in silence and fear should not be an option.
It is humiliating enough not to have any real power to change things significantly.
We can't add self-censure to that.
Again, I really appreciate your kind words
@vonaurolacu & @hlezama,
And this ... is why Henrry has my salute ... he has the courage of his convictions. Countries are not built by cowards.
Quill
Thanks, Quill.
I have witnessed the utter destruction of all the institutions and cultural assets I grew up with. Whatever defined me as Venezuelan, from territorial notions to traditions, exist no longer in the same way they existed 20 years ago.
All because people have ben afraid to (at least) speak up.
I saw the destruction of my university (and the rest of the universities in the country, although some still manage to function) and with perplexity I saw how fellow faculty members, who allegedly possess the highest levels of intellectual/cultural/historical awareness refuse to see what was coming; they refused to support measures that might have prevented the total collapse of our higher education system.
Ironically, most of them are now out of the country,enjoying a better life, erasing their role in this mess.
When we see that level of cowardice in those circles, we can only hope that masses, with less restrains resulting from formal education (what Bertran Russell would call "good manners"), would ignite a flame that will burn the whole damn system down.
In our case, those masses have been domesticated with the oldest of tricks: bread and circus inside a barrier of ignorance and misinformation.
PS. Thanks for the token (just noticed). Most generous of you.