The Inebriated Pupil

The Inebriated Pupil / 14ymedio, Eliecer Avila
Posted on December 16, 2015

14ymedio, Eliecer Avila, Havana, 14 December 2015 – The Astonished Pupil
is a recent program on Cuban TV directed by Iroel Sanchez. The show
continues the logic that has characterized Sanchez in recent years.
Every time the gentleman opens his mouth it is to speak badly of
everything modern, free and useful, from the internet and Facebook to
denouncing "the great lie represented by Western democracy." It seems
that he and his friends know best about another world of which they
don't have the vaguest positive memory.

Continuing in this theme, his media program has a chaotic script, tries
to mix entertainment with the most leftist of propaganda, and broadcasts
materials such as speeches by radical separatists in Catalonia.

The strangest thing about it is that it is presented as something new
and accepted without question, when enough time has passed that all
these arguments have been profoundly dismantled by excellent political
and intellectual analysis, demonstrating the lack of both logic and
principles in such positions and their manipulated reasoning.

Today they presented a documentary called something like "Modern
Slaves," a phrase that refers to almost everyone on the planet,
according to Sanchez, who believes that representative democracy and
respect for human rights and the natural laws of markets are the most
effective way to achieve development.

The voiceover narrating the materials appears to come from someone who
has drunk disproportionate amounts of alcohol mixed in every possible
variation and without eating any food. There is no other way in which a
human being could affirm so much nonsense all at the same time.

It is precisely the freedom of expression achieved with these "slave
societies" which allows any failure to make a "documentary" with his
very particular vision of the world and to broadcast it, so that later
on someone else can come along and use it against a country deprived of
the opportunity to access YouTube and choose what they like and discard
the rest.

The program offers the example of Ada Colau, a woman who became known
for her activism against evictions in Spain and was elected mayor of
Barcelona. It is a perfect example of Colau's good luck to live in an
"evil Western democracy," because if she lived in the Cuban paradise,
instead of important responsibilities and recognition, she would have
received only kicks in the butt right up to today and called a CIA agent
and counterrevolutionary for defending the rights of thousands of
eastern Cubans fleeing poverty to settle in makeshift neighborhoods in
Havana, who are treated inhumanely in many cases, despite having small
children and being vulnerable.

It is a shame and untenable that works consistent with our reality are
censored – works produced by Cuban theater directions, filmmakers,
documentarians and writers – while television time is given over to
programs paid for by public funds produced by these people who over and
over again sell these same ideologies of eternal failure.

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Editor's note: The author is president of the movement Somos+ (We are more)

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