RE: Ulog #082 | Market Friday in Cumaná
I'm not sure which is more disturbing. The fact that people wander about just like there's nothing wrong with this, or the fact that it's happening at all while the world is sitting back and watching. I'm horrified and I've seen it before and yet I'm still horrified because of all the innocent people that have to live and walk on sewer water and trash and disease the has to be present in all that.
I appreciate you having the tenacity to take pictures so the world can see all of this and hopefully try to make a difference in these little lives. How can I not affect people when you say that there are little fish and sometimes children stick their hands in their to catch them. But Wilson the street are horrible but it's a sewer water in the trash that really push me over the edge. And to think that vendors actually put out food side by side with the filth. I know what garbage smells like a hot day, and the mere thought of all those people having to put up with that makes me ill. When I sit, thinking that the vendor May pick up it dropped fish pour a little water on it. Can you imagine taking that home and cooking it after it's fallen in the sewer water? The videos were good informative, even if I had to look it up for a while she was woman walking ahead of you. I actually thought that was a little funny. But I realized that that was not your intent.
Poverty Fosters conformism. You couldn't have said that any louder or clearer. Thank you Henry. Thank you so much and may God bless all of you. I appreciate you using Market Friday for your platform and I hope that I can muster up a little bit more interest in this post as I found it very informative and very appalling.
Thank you!! Be safe out there!
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Thank you so much, @dswigle, for giving me the impulse I needed to make this post.
It is disturbing at many levels, and as you suggest, maybe the most disturbing part of it is how it gets "naturalized". We get desensitized to poverty, suffering, and eventually death.
This is a crazy world we live in.
Some good innitiatives on the one hand, cool ideas to make some people's life better, end dictatorships, improve democrazy, etc.; but then the same forces that promote good thing on one front encourage or allow horrible things on other fronts.
We can never tell for sure who the good guys are. That's also disturbing.
In the meantime, people get used to the most outrageous things in the name of noone-said-life-would-be-easy.
I knew you were living in terrible conditions and confronting poverty and extraordinary challenges, @hlezama, but it’s really hard to imagine until you see it. Thank you for sharing this with us so we better understand. Ending dictatorship sounds promising, along with infrastructure projects to solve the health hazards of garbage and bad water. I do hope there is hope and change on the horizon for Venezuela.
Thanks, @jayna. Hope is all we have left. We don't have the same determinación or resources available to evildoers to do what must be done when it must