Well i can't dispute any of this ... no, for sure we cannot allow ourselves to become complacent, for that reason it is imho wise to stay alert to possible breaches of civilised behaviour among the entities over which we have influence ... like, for instance, the various branches of US government in their control of the fate of the child of a cubano.
We're arguing two sides of the same coin here - myself as Pollyanna with the glass-half-full theory, you as the Wicked Winchester of the West and the glass-half-empty ... but we can agree that always the liquid is on the bottom, and the air on top, eh -g-
I think the species is improving all-in-all, though there are clearly many exceptions and aberrations ... and the improvement is due to education ... not to increased wealth, which is limited to a small fraction of humanity, but to increased communication and access to information about each other ... i guess at heart i am a vasconcelosista - he [Vasconcelos] was the secretary of education in the Obreg¢n government of 1920, he had a programme called Alfabeto, Pan y Jab¢n ['letters, bread, and soap'], he founded libraries all over the country, published books and magazines at least as much for children as for adults ... this was a major part of unifying and pacifying a diverse and fractious nation following the revolution, a process which continues to this day, and which all in all, counting in the problems of which there are a great many, continues to make life better for the citizen. All through education.
... got to go now, to meet a group of travelling, performing, living, breathing, eating, drinking, farting, merry-making [one hopes], actual cubanos ... just a coincidence |
