Thursday, March 17, 2011

A history of broken dreams

(ES)

Recent history is a history of broken dreams.

A history in which the forces of nature unfortunately are allied with dictators to remove prominence at the expense of its massacred people. A history of contagious revolutions that Western medicine is concerned with heal by removing the power to the decrepit dictators, giving way to the welfare being produced by democratic health. Or that in some cases only gives a placebo of warm threats while asking second opinions, and looks for who justifies the application of a treatment. It all depends on economic interests, which act as a vaccine that immunizes Western leaders and attenuates the pain they suffer for the murder of civilians.

At times, it seems that chaos takes over our entire existence, because the succession of news does not give even one breath.

The media, squeezing their covers, to the point that the news of civilian deaths at the hands of the dictator who rules them, in response to what began as a peaceful revolution and is now an open war, has been displaced by another tragic story whose main character is the force of nature; that reminds us that we are only human, and that our creations can not compete with unsurpassed power. A enormous wave that has swept the dreams of their victims.

A wave that has swept everything in its path, including news of the thousands of refugees crowded into camps hoping to escape the violence. A wave that has swept from our minds the democratic dreams of unconcluded revolutions.

This is the consumerist society in which we live, that drives us to consume without limit, including information provided to us by powerful media that broadcast interests and opinions of their boards, not the majority.

Many waves have passed, dreams and memories erased. But forget those who have seen their dreams broken is like definitely denying the opportunities have been seized.

The paradox of an interconnected global world is that half the world's misery does not seriously affect the welfare of the other half. So the indifference is the worst medicine for this sick world.

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