On Cuban television, they reported a shootout between a speedboat coming from the United States and a local border patrol. The incident occurred off the coast of Corralillo, in one of the provinces of Cuba’s central region.
On social media, pro-government posts defended the success of the border guards, claiming that Cuba must be respected, and that any enemy who tries to invade could face a similar outcome. Most of the comments in these types of posts were not to my liking, since I feel very detached from anything that represents the Cuban government.
However, I cannot deny that I feel more identified when I see posts where the majority of people commenting are against the Cuban government. Of course, there are always extremists who don’t care whether an event is true or false, and who try to impose their point of view at all costs. I don’t identify with them.
It bothers me greatly to see those who defend the Cuban government, or the government itself, claim that they represent the entire Cuban people. Anyone who truly comes to my country and walks around just a little without political supervision realizes all the hardships we suffer here.
From that moment on, I am sure they would take the side of what I believe is right. But who am I? Well, I am a Cuban with my own particular ideas. It is very likely that another Cuban has a different perspective, and that beyond him or her, there are also others with very different thoughts from ours.
Human beings seem destined to live polarized. No higher power will ever have the support of every human being on the planet. Once I wrote about China, but while reading a book about its global economic rise, I learned about facts I had ignored until recently.
Following that line, I came to the conclusion that there is no economic model so far that guarantees growth without sacrificing the well-being of every inhabitant of the planet. There will always be people who oppose the limitations (whether fair or not) imposed by a government.
Pluribus is a new TV series about a virus that forces all human beings to live as one. Each individual mind contains the same information as the rest, and together they began to act for the good of themselves as a global community. The protagonist of the series is one of the few people immune to the virus. And of course, she disagrees with the rest of the world being a place without violence, without pollution, and without rampant consumption, just because it is not sufficiently individual.
This is a clear example of what I referred to earlier. Factions will always exist. Sometimes there will be two, other times three, but never ever just one. We are polarized beings, and even if we accept it, that will remain one of the obstacles to avoiding our end as a species.
