This year, the country where I was born is celebrating two hundred years of independent life, or in more simple words: the bicentennial. This celebration was (and still is) a combination of a lot of different things, some of them are: excessive nationalist feelings, a lot of inauguration buildings, Chilean music concerts of doubtful quality and, finally, a giant flag in front of the Presidential Palace.
All ingredients that compose this particular year have created a very special atmosphere in the country; in general, the people think that how that we are now is the best way to be. The possibilities to question and criticize the social and political environment are more and more far of the minds of the people, and the manipulation of the media is the responsible of that. Sincerely, I think that this situation is a superficial sensation, but very credible for the people that are shrouded in a way of life where is almost sacred the appearance of things.
Horrible things like the earthquake or miners, that had happened this year, are things that our authorities have known how to exploit. And with more success if we think that this year is the bicentennial. Tragedies like the two that I mentioned before has profound problems that in a society more critic and conscious (not like our actual society), maybe it wouldn’t be so profound. Even the bicentennial, a real opportunity to celebrate, must be an opportunity too to question us about what is exactly the thing that we are celebrating with so much happiness, and until what point we are an independent and free nation. But this question doesn’t found a place, and the people receive the image of a government that apparently is doing all things rights, with the highest efficiency, without question about it.
I don’t know if someday the people wake up. But one thing that I really believe is this manipulation of important dates (like the bicentennial) and tragedies, will have to get a point of exhibition of their actions, because the construction of all of this fake images has mistakes that one day will be showed.
All ingredients that compose this particular year have created a very special atmosphere in the country; in general, the people think that how that we are now is the best way to be. The possibilities to question and criticize the social and political environment are more and more far of the minds of the people, and the manipulation of the media is the responsible of that. Sincerely, I think that this situation is a superficial sensation, but very credible for the people that are shrouded in a way of life where is almost sacred the appearance of things.
Horrible things like the earthquake or miners, that had happened this year, are things that our authorities have known how to exploit. And with more success if we think that this year is the bicentennial. Tragedies like the two that I mentioned before has profound problems that in a society more critic and conscious (not like our actual society), maybe it wouldn’t be so profound. Even the bicentennial, a real opportunity to celebrate, must be an opportunity too to question us about what is exactly the thing that we are celebrating with so much happiness, and until what point we are an independent and free nation. But this question doesn’t found a place, and the people receive the image of a government that apparently is doing all things rights, with the highest efficiency, without question about it.
I don’t know if someday the people wake up. But one thing that I really believe is this manipulation of important dates (like the bicentennial) and tragedies, will have to get a point of exhibition of their actions, because the construction of all of this fake images has mistakes that one day will be showed.
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