Can we start by rejecting all conventional and established social institutions consisting of family, community, culture, education, marriage, religion, government, legal, judicial, healthcare, mass media, political and social welfare?
How can we discard this system considering we were born into this organism? What is the alternative? Do we have a choice?
Are we aware that all is not well in our world, all is not quite alright? – but we choose to ignore the fact – and prefer not to do anything about it. We have a preference not to ask questions and believe blindly whatever we read in our history (story) books.
Outside of Argentina very few of us are even aware of the repressive days of the late 1970s to early 1980s by the military junta and the days leading to the Falkland War. Totalitarianism is always the same throughout the world.
La Historia Oficial (The Official Story) directed by Luis Puenzo is an eye opening film. The story takes place shortly after the coup d’etat by the Military Junta ( 1976-1983).
What looks implausible is that how could possibly a history teacher be so blind to the environment around her while even reporting one of her students who remarks that "History is written by assassins”. What the student probably meant was that history was and is written from the point of view of those who are in charge and those who win the conflict.
One is led to feel that the protagonist even though being a history teacher represents the general mass of any country that practices a life time of complacent ignorance and apathy and is unaware of the horrors unleashed by a (paradoxically) democratically elected authoritarian government.
This awakening and realization of the horrors that occurred in Argentina without the protagonist’s consciousness could very well parallel several situations occurring in the world even today.
Human endurance on one side and brutality on the other goes hand in hand since time immemorial. We are perennially in a state of denial - We allow what happens around us.
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