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?
