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RE: Ulog #082 | Market Friday in Cumaná
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