I just finished enjoying a fascinating animated film for adults, “Flatland” (2007), based on the work “Square” (written in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott). I’m taking advantage of this to continue a long and interesting discussion with some friends from here.
Guevara struggled against the independence of the university in relation to society, and that’s all fine and well, but he did it by throwing the university at the feet of such a powerful and authoritarian government.
When it came to the two Cubans who participated in book I just read about university reform, it seems that the sole country where it was completed and is sustained is in Cuba.
Up the dark and narrow stairway, Irina and I made our way to the little apartment constructed on the roof where people were celebrating the “Cajon”*. We had been invited by a spiritualist friend, a key and very well paid figure in such ceremonies.
When my niece was a little girl (now she’s a 15) she brought home a puppy that she named Kiara: a skinny mutt with bulging not-very-friendly eyes. Over time they ended up forging a bond that only a child and a dog know how to do.
Isn’t it similar to us behaving like a bull in front of the red cape that encourages us to charge while the bullfighter toys with our fury until we become exhausted?
When we first started the website, even I felt a little concerned and uncomfortable that it came out only in the language of Shakespeare. This put us in a delicate situation. Plus, though I was wringing out my neurons, I couldn’t even avoid the fact that the readers of my posts were other than Cuban.
Leandrito isn’t that slow; it’s just that his generation has suffered a disastrous educational history. They’ve had to endure problems with mathematics ever since primary school, when they spent several years without math teachers.
There are thousands of them disbursed throughout all the schools throughout the entire country. They don’t wear uniforms but they have uniform brains.
I believe the gist of the matter revolves around the capacity of such substances to alter one’s consciousness, and in this way too they can serve to change the social order and the structures of power.