"When that happens to you so many times, you become a psychological disaster yourself," he said. "And finally you break through. For me, it was when I saw a Communist Party member, a woman, speaking on TV. She was talking about a poet, a woman whose work they didn't approve of, who had been taken by a mob. She said they had made the poet swallow her poems. I thought, how many people does it take to do something like that? One to hold each arm, one to hold each leg, one to hold her nose, and another to stuff it in her mouth? I said, 'That's it, I'm finished.' "
In most cases, I think such confusion (not making up one's mind in important issues), is caused by the "warm fuzzy feeling" of the "being accepted by the masses syndrome" --not wanting to be the odd-ball one. But in the case of the Cuban dissidents, the ones living in hell <g>, such attitude is justified, since the constant fear of threat to their welfare, (as illustrated in the article), is not only an imaginary product of the imagination, but a real threat.
I agree that the actual change in Cuba will have to come from within, nevertheless, the US should lift the embargo, as the outside influences on leaders, dissidents, and the general population of Cuba, will speed the inevitable change.
Good article. |
