După câte-un film istoric ce mă impresioează obişnuiesc să scormonesc pe google în căutarea faptelor.
Poate nu ştiaţi, dar Gingis Han îşi futea nevasta destul de rar, grecul Alexandru cel Mare si-a intins imperiul până-n India unde a şi murit, în Darfur (Sudan) tocmai s-a petrecut unul din cele mai sângeroase războaie civile din epoca modernă, în Africa de Nord se îngroapă morţii după maxim o zi (in loc de 3), iar imaginea lui Che Guevara a furat tot sensul vietii lui, omul fiind in prezent unul din cele mai des folosite simboluri din societatea capitalistă.
Avem fastfoodul El Comandante în Vama Veche unde găsiţi mâncare bună dar uneori stricată, avem bikini cu imaginea lui Che, avem clasicele tricouri cu stencilul, avem bijuterii, avem tatuaje, avem idealuri la bucată, avem de toate. Cine mai doreşte, cine mai pofteşte ? Mai luaţi o halcă de Che Guevara! Târfelor. Şi nici măcar nu era comunist. Avea propria lui viziune apropiată de cea a creatorilor Zeitgeist, visa la un Om Nou, un om fără ego, un om care să nu se ţină singur în lanţuri prin intermediul societăţii.
Restless and complex, practical and idealistic, caring and brutal, self-serving and naive – and this is just scratching the surface of the contradictory personality that has fuelled the myth and legend of Che Guevara. On the one hand there is the temptation to dismiss Guevara as a frenetic dreamer consumed by the movement and romance of revolutionary action. On the other is an admiration for his total commitment to the utopian belief that a ‘New Man’ could create a just and equal society.
Guevara’s preparedness to challenge the dominant world powers was also admirable. A bitter critic of the US, he also earned the enmity of socialist states. The Soviet Union opposed his fateful mission to Bolivia, reportedly because it involved a dispute with the "legitimate" Latin American communist parties favoured by the Soviets.
There is much to admire in Guevara, and yet there is also uneasiness. Uneasiness because it is only a short step from someone like Guevara to someone like Osama bin Laden, and because the two are essentially fellow travellers. Uneasiness over all the revolutionary clichés that Guevara was so skilled at employing. Uneasiness over all the leftist rhetoric so readily consumed and regurgitated by baby-boomer acolytes from the West. Uneasiness over the subsequent incorporation of the form of Che Guevara into a revolutionary myth while the substance of the man is overlooked.
Today I see Western youths wearing the famous ‘Heroic Guerrilla’ image of Guevara on T-shirts and wonder what this is about. Some, like those well-known social liberals boxer Mike Tyson and soccer player Diego Maradona, even go so far as to have the image tattooed on their bodies, presumably to demonstrate the permanence of their fidelity to Guevara’s "ideals".
The image has stolen all the meaning. Guevara has been completely subsumed by a culture that he hated.
In 1967 Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the US rock-band ‘The Doors’, sang the lyric, "We want the world and we want it, Now!" Guevara could have said it himself. It may have sounded revolutionary then. Today it just sounds immature and stupid.
Guevara is a false hero. He is an adolescent fantasy, not a mature role model.
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PS1: tre să vedeţi filmul şi PS2: cred că am apendicită. De la cuba libre de aseara te pomeneşti.