Second page II

 

A thought as a puzzle, as a piece of a puzzle. It doesn't need to be. However, it could be for further intentions. What about those thoughts linked to a feeling. such as Nostalgia? Saudade, like the Portuguese. What about them? They could turn into data as well and therefore they can get deconstructed.  Get, yes, always get. Interesting word. We might guess then that if any of the feelings we have linked to a thought can rephrase its essence, Morality itself can be turned as wanted. These are times when Morality can be reshaped, so do beliefs. And I'm still trying to inhale my smoke Faith and exhale my smoke will with this breath I can't catch but I never stop chasing, because I know that despite of the smoke, my faith and my will somehow flow within.

 

Four years have gone by. We decided it after the big power outage in March of 2019. We should have done it earlier but that's never been us; Venezuelans were used to stay together with their families but even family can be broken down from the power. The government,  the Venezuelan government. It's hard to explain it given the differences with other countries'. In 1999 the constitution was changed; a new way of democracy has risen. A democracy where the president has more power than any other institution.  Of course: how could such a thing have been done? By elections.  Elections are the weapon that threatens free will. Ironic,  right? One of the first thing that the new constitution brought was the new distribution of Power. The election office was, let's say, elevated to a State Power. You see. I read once that in some other countries this division is not called power but administration,  or public administration. In Venezuela the word it was always used is Power, so the Power, formerly divided in three, got then divided by five, and the elections office was named then The Electoral Power. I'm not going to say that this was the cause of the crisis. It had something to do, of course, but a lot of things happened and there are a lot of information better exposed  and explained about it. I just want to show this as an example of deconstruction. Elections are worldwide known (or shown) as one pillar of democracy, or so we thought before the disaster.  Now Venezuelans have a different approach.  The opposition and government acolytes started breaking down several definitions so people's perception could  rephrase their understanding, all these through Social media; forth generation war, they called it. There were intense moments, along with a waterfall of decisions made in order to undermine whatever concept of freedom we had, and always in the name of democracy. One of the most important TV  Channels was shut down from national broadcasting. On one side we talked about a shut down and on the other they claimed it was a no renewal of the contract.  You see: concepts and broken down definitions.

 

Years before that, the government released this plan called Exchange Control, in which every foreign currency exchange must be done through the government's administration.  People got used to two exchange rates: the official one and the black market one. This economic plan took the country to one of the biggest depression ever, forcing people to rethink their lives. Politicians from both sides took advantage of this, of course. An advantage that went for a division. They got what they wanted: thousands of people fighting each other over their political beliefs. Yes, this big rephrase made people see this as a political belief! Society got divided in Chavistas and Opositores. The first ones supported the government and the second ones, the opposition.  As the crisis rises, people started moving out. For those who stayed, they stood for smoke faith and smoke will on politicians, I presume.  A lot has been said about everyone but the thing is that those who left, have left something that social media hasn't yet defined but that I’m thinking about it, it may not go by any sort of definition. Perhaps it’s more like a cheap trick of misdirection. We, specially the Generation X ones, got, with the assistance of time, and so many personal problems, that beliefs has more to do with power than culture. Social media has set several paths, I want to mention two: the path of the resentment and the path of the new hope. From the resentment, the idea that has been sold is that every single men from the government must pay back, and with that wave of anger, poor people too. Anyone who ever supported the dictator must pay debt somehow because of the suffering of the now immigrants.  From the new hope path, there is this other side trying to sell that people are struggling so hard to get through, and they deserve appreciation.  One side celebrates any sort of punishment,  and the other  celebrates any attempt of support for those who stay and work hard in the country. Working hard has been deconstructed too, from the way I see it. For instance when is Working not hard, I wonder?