Thursday, October 25, 2007

Utopian Happiness

Many years ago, a reknown actor from our country, during the role he performed in a movie, had to give opinions about Argentina. He said: " Argentina is not a country, is a trap. The trick is that they make you believe that it can change. And actually, you start to feel that it can change, you fell the change coming, but in the end, it is just an Utopia. Because this country has no future, and this, wont change. This is a country which is constantly plundered and the ones who dare to do that to us, wont let us have a future. Some peolpe die, others are betrayed, and in the end....they say we are all equally guilty for what we have".
This view of Argentina, despite of being quite old, has lots of similarities with the actual reality of our country. Such movie was shot in 1997, but the words of its scripts which described our reality of those times, still have lot of meaning for many of us.
Most of our middle social class have not succeded yet in healing the injuries that the crisis of 2001 caused. That class continues to be pauper, as it became after the crude political and economical national crisis that we underwent in that year. In that same way, most of the professionals we have, have not yet found the better job opportunity which could encourage them to came back to the country. And we still hear the common advice in the streets: "Don't miss the chance to go abroad if it appears in front of you! Leave if you have the chance!".
And they still steal....and what is even worse is that they dare to say that we are already managing to succede as a country. They say that the dramatic times have already passed. The say that, eventhough, so many little things have changed since then. And I am not being pesimist, I appreciate those changes, but they are to small, to few, to fill me with hope....
Sometimes I think that this is all just a bad dream. A nightmare from which we will some day wake up. I convince myself (or let myself being convinced by them) that "it can change. And actually, I start to fell that it can change. And I fell the cahnge coming and, that in the end....."
.....the dream will have a happy ending this time.

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