Looking for the Origin

Looking for the Origin / Fernando Damaso
Posted on May 12, 2014

There is constant talk and articles about the need to rescue values, the
good habits, and eradicate social indiscipline and rudeness. It's true
and should be done, but no one talks or writes about the real origins:
the loss of civility and morals.

Most citizens, in the early months of the political, economic and social
experiment, accepted and even applauded that the right to elect our
leaders every four years was removed, as was the right to publicly state
an opinion, to have parties and political organizations, to educate our
children according to our desires, and, something terrible, they allowed
someone, like a feudal lord from another eta, to decide who was Cuban
and who wasn't, which partitioned the nation and is a national shame.

In addition, the state banished what they called bourgeois values and
put in their place a double standard, awarding mediocrity, unconditional
support, betrayal, jealousy, envy, rudeness, lack of respect, citizen
violence and other evils.

Time has passed and they are trying to forget these barbarities,
suggesting, without asking forgiveness, a clean slate, as if it never
happened and affected the fabric of our society, but the facts are
there. It's a pity that our ruling historians dare not address them.

You always reap what you sow. A generation that lost civic and moral
values and was left fanatic and vulgar, passed it on to their children
and they to theirs, in a continuous chain of all these evils. Here are
the results.

They suggest that the family and school are crucial to the rescue of the
missing values, but what is lacking is a different family, where the
members practice civility and morality, rather than the fractured
current one, accustomed to putting the individual first, far from social
and national interests, although they attend the rallies, vote
unanimously for everything put in front of them and even participate,
with enthusiasm, in the massive parades. It is, simply, their way of not
looking for problems and solving their own.

9 May 2014

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