By Eduardo N. Cordovi Hernndez
HAVANA TIMES – Once I heard a story about two little fish who suddenly find themselves in the middle of the ocean. One asks the other: “Please, I’m looking for the ocean, can you tell me where to find it?” Unbelievable! But it happens normally in our existence as well.
We are immersed in a dreadful reality. We do not perceive it because we are busy with other matters that have made us believe they are the landscape of Eden. But they are the gateway to hell.
An immediate example now, in Havana or in another corner of Cuba, common topics are the high prices of anything, the scarcity of the essentials, the inconveniences to work, the difficulties of public transportation, the dangers of getting sick from eating insufficiently, pharmacies without medicines and hospitals deteriorated and/or without supplies, the increase in thefts, assaults, building collapses… and, to top it off, the news of the wars in Ukraine, in Gaza… extending to Yemen, to Iran, global economic crises, and climatological disasters, all a Lovecraftian poem… all shaping a habitat, an earthly atmosphere fueled by antagonistic socio-cultural, politico-economic, politico-social, socio-economic tensions… and again, in short.
I want to talk about another horror more hidden, close, and worse, for being more dangerous for being present with a charming disguise.
It is about our ideas about love, promoted by culture, mass media, press, TV, radio, cinematography, and, previously, the arts, with exceptions, of course!
I am talking about ideas that try to exalt, praise, laud, etc., healthy, human, dignified, genuine values, and another