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Leninist invention to superficially criticize ourselves without criticizing in depth . The fourth advantage is epochal . We still live in fluent times , when everything is filtered beneath the doors , and the borders of culture and knowledge are very , very porous . And in fluent times , the cultural clergy only thinks of shutting themselves up its own abbey . The fifth advantage is instrumental . The cultural clergy needs help from the police to validate its points ; for validating its points , the society needs just to deepen knowledge and to improve art . The sixth advantage is the mentality . The Cuban society is very imaginative ; the cultural clergy has an in-built military mindset . The only possible imagination inside a military barrack is the perverse one . The seventh and final advantage , for now , is institutional . Society can seek protection under the constitution for developing its full potential ; the cultural
clergy needs to violate the constitution , anytime and everywhere , in order to prevail . In view of the cultural discourses spreading in our fluent times , the pill gets wet . Probably the discourse variety responds much better , aesthetically speaking , to the inevitable fragmentation of the Cuban social body . Each sector creates its own message and aesthetics , which can be integrated into the social game through rules that are shared and respected by all . However , although I ยด m a genetically programmed optimist , I do not want to mask the following data : we have lived trapped by the geopolitical determinism , now we are falling into the trap of economic determinism and the next one โ€” it should be warned โ€” will be the trap of cultural determinism , all of them set by the United States . What about the Lucas Awards ? That ' s fine , but the Grammys seem to be better . So , let โ€™ s run , because Christianity and alcohol are still mixed ... Without its drawbacks ?
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