By Eduardo N. Cordovi Hernandez
HAVANA TIMES – Every day here in Havana, and I suppose throughout Cuba as well, because it’s the same thing happening worldwide, we spend our time passing judgments and delivering sentences. That’s how we humans operate. It’s not that doing so is good or bad, or whether it’s right or leads to error. But doing it daily becomes a habit, if not a vice, without us realizing. Mostly because, since we are born, family, school, and later society instill it in us and even reward us for doing so. Also, family, school, and society are the same entities that sanction us to varying degrees based on whether these judgments or verdicts align with their expectations.
This makes us lose an innate quality of our species: originality. We act through typical, pre-designed, anticipated reactions. We become automated, predictable, manipulable, and easy to control. Domesticated.
I’m not saying this to convince you; I have no interest in being right. I’m not trying to save the world. I’m not defending a hypothesis. Instead, I’m providing an impartial report on how I see my life amid the lives of everyone else. I aim to report on our lives. I speak about the situation of us Cubans, both those living in Cuba and those scattered around the world, something I can understand well because the internet has made the world very small.
Writing helps me understand my surroundings, guide my judgments, and make determinations for more convenient forms, for my own convenience.
I write about reality withou
