The other day I kind of exploded, in the good sense of the word, don't get me wrong. I didn't even raise my voice, but I could not keep quiet during that talk... People were talking about being proud of being Venezuelan.
The nerve of some people!
No, really, honestly speaking I do realize that there might be people all around the world that get a sense of pride out of being squeezed out of someone in a specific part of the map. I have never understood that feeling. Why? Simple, it is not your accomplishment. In my opinion, in order to be proud of something, you must first achieve something; that's what gives you braging rights over the deed.... Like finishing Dark Souls without taking a single hit! Congratulations to the dude that accomplished that, he managed to not have a life.
But back to the point at hand. Even taking into consideration what I just said, I understand that some people might be proud of the country they were born somehow. Take Germany, they were devastated after the war and now they are a pretty kick ass country; so is Japan, pretty much every Scandinavian countries, and many other countries that are, well, kick ass. Granted, no one is perfect, but what have this country, my country, ever done in the past... idk... 50 years?
There was a time when this was an awesome place, a tropical paradise of sorts, and then it went to shit. Why? Mainly corruption, but I'm sure there are other factors involved. Back in the 50's we had a inflation rate that was under 2%, we even were at a -1.7% at some point... Last year we had a 108.7%... Ooooh, I feel a spark of nationalism in me!
We have now no fucking water, no fucking electricity, blackouts are common, there are places in the country where you don't get water service in weeks.... But to speak out of what I know. My town has a huge lake... we have no water treatment plants. Why? We basically depend on one single power plant for the entire country, that worked fantastically until population grew evidently; apparently the people in charge of the country never thought about population growth, a basic concept for us gamers... Want more Zealots? YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!
I could go on... but I wont... I'll just tell you the same thing I told my parents. This county only merit in the past 20 years (in that span of time we've had 2 coups, by the way), has been the exporting of the brightest minds this country have seen. The numbers are around 1.5 million Venezuelan living somewhere else, that's what Venezuela, as a country has accomplished in my time.
That's not something to be proud of.
No song tonight.
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