I have been thinking about the needs that shape us and the experience of the Cuban people.
Most specially when we live under a government that controls our thoughts and actions.
There are needs around which our personality is structured, these three needs are: affection, security for survival, and the experience of having control over our own lives.
Feeling loved, safe, and in healthy control of our lives allows fear not to overcome us.
When these conditions are absent, we protect ourselves, we raise our defenses, and if we are not aware of it, we end up confusing our defenses with our identity. We begin to act from those defenses in order to feel protected.
In this way, we end up doing what we do not want to do, or saying what we do not want to say. We act from a “self” in which we do not recognize ourselves, with which we do not identify, but which gives us a sense of security. We are acting as if manipulated by others but we are not genuine.
The same thing happens at the level of an entire group of people.
A dictatorship does not love its children. It controls them, manipulates them, uses them for its own ends, but it does not love them. Their lives, their hopes, their desires… do not matter.
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I have been thinking about the needs that shape us and the experience of the Cuban people.
El presidente Díaz-Canel