I have been thinking about “ignoring” as a response.
Every social movement adopts its own way of dealing with the different situations it has to face. Since the beginnings of the “Revolution,” two mechanisms have been put in place and have remained constant over the years: ignoring and repressing.
We already know repression very well. It is activated suddenly in the face of any situation that threatens the stability of the system.
The other mechanism is non-response. Popular alarm bells go off over the increase in viruses and the deaths they are causing; there are no medicines, no ambulance services, no doctors in many parts of the island; there are no teachers to take on the education of our children; the imbalance between wages and the cost of living continues to grow at an unstoppable pace… but when we look to the Government, seeking a response, it feels as though we run into a tableau of smiling people gazing into infinity, into emptiness, and when they deign to address us, they seem to look at us with curiosity and say things like: “Haven’t you realized that the blockade is to blame for everything?” “Do you still not trust that the Revolution will solve everything?” “Why so much laziness when what we need to do here is resist and endure like true men and women?”
The latest chapter has been the recent popular protests—protests that have taken place in different parts of the country and continue to multiply.
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I have been thinking about “ignoring” as a response.
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