Hentrich,
Would a 100 hundred percent lazy take care of his mother the way you are doing now?
No one is lazy most of the time. I was taught that work, family and motherland were supreme values. Total buuulllshiiit. Rules and discipline had to be respected at all times.Crraaapp. Schools and factories/offices/institutions are both sides of the same coin. Schools are for the little slaves and the others are for the adult slaves. And last but not least the cemetery is for the dead slaves.
I once saw a picture where a Soviet worker was in a mine working a kind of drill. The picture had these words: Do what you love. Stakhanov. I agree. Let us love our chains.
I remember those movies about the concentration camps, specially Auschwitz, where the slogan was “Work Shall Make You Free.” Yes, they became free by being burned in the crematoriums and ending up as ashes. But now things are a little different. Millions of human beings condemned to automatic, and destructive jobs. What an accomplishment!
General Alfredo Stroessner who ruled this country from 1954 to 1989 was the master and the others were slaves. Of course we were temporary slaves while in prison most of the inmates were permanent. But at school and outside of the school we were told that the general was The Benefactor, The First Sportsman, and The Second Rebuilder of the Nation and Honorary President of the Colorado Party (the ruling party here).
Years ago they told me that the general went to Japan in the 1970s and saw how the Japanese worked day and night there. He was much impressed and so he came back with the idea that Paraguayans must be productive like those from the Rising Sun. Result: he failed and I am glad he failed at that time.
Yes, Hentrich, life is not a picnic and it will never be. Here from time to time I listen to the reporters, when they talk about the huge money soccer players make here. These players are treated like little gods or heroes for just kicking a ball. There is a millionaire industry behind soccer. This is nothing new.
Primary and secondary school teachers make little money every month. But these same teachers, who are soccer fans, do not think this is an insult. These professional soccer players give the children the illusion that they too can become famous and supermen one day. And the sad thing is that many of these players are punished for taking medication to boost their physical performance.
So keep studying math and programming.