their analytical abilities are not exercised , they lose interest in learning . The serious educators , devoted to the cause of building the human capital for the future society , have been long questioning the standardized education that dilutes the individual according to the interests of power . The damage is much more palpable in a totalitarian system , which teaches from the perspective of perennial polarization : heroes and enemies , undefeated people and imperialist giant , revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries ...
Apart from the warmongering , xenophobic , macho and segregationist substrate , the nuances and complexities of the truth are obviously swept away by multiple expressions of intolerance . Added to this , we find the just symbolic wages and the euphemisms to disguise theft , fraud , prostitution and vandalism . The ravages of such ( de ) formation — which began in the schools and enterprises founded by the revolution — are expressed in a deep-rooted self-pity and self-indulgence . Cuba is a third world small island , harassed by an arrogant empire that blocks its economic development . We are victims , we need help from the relatives or friends who live in countries where they really get paid and we also need that the tourists show compassion in the form of gifts or alms . The entrepreneurial instinct , the sense of self-management and economic autonomy , was totally paralyzed for avoiding the risks of political autonomy . When this unsustainable machinery revealed by itself it ’ s being on the verge of collapse , hasty reforms were introduced to ease the weight in the column ( the State ), but not to legitimize other supports . The degrees of mimicry deployed by Cubans to survive in such unnatural circumstances are also appalling . Diverse degrees are present across the generations that once believed in the revolution , cooperated with it and devoted time and efforts ( some even family properties and relations ), but now refuse to admit that they were cheated . Displaced by the unstoppable race of history , they defend themselves with hackneyed arguments that are scandalously contradicted by their own realities . Many lose their moral strength before their children and grandchildren . Young people also disguise the fear of expressing their discontent with a false apolitical attitude or with cynical criteria as signs of forced uprooting . Falsehood pullulates a mutilated art that , in order to survive , turns into mimicry with trivial discourses or concepts , with dramas plagued by stereotypes , which are unable to reflect our contemporaneous complexity . There
56