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There is no special lighting or stage for what needs to be said. There is only cold metal and concrete fact. For fifty years, I helped sharpen the blade. I was inside the structure, operating the logic that promised an ideal future while eroding, in practice, the foundations of our very material and geopolitical existence.
Ideological blindness reaches its most bizarre peak when looking at the print on a t-shirt: on the front, the figure of Che Guevara alongside the LGBT symbol; in the background, the narrative absurdity of portraying him embracing and kissing those whom his own doctrine and labor camps were designed to eliminate. Only those who are willfully blind fail to see it. Using one's own executioner as a banner of liberation is the absolute summit of reality inversion.
When the tool you helped build turns against your own home, the illusion ends. The metal reflects reality without a filter: the mask falls, and only the individual remains facing the damage they helped create.
In relations between men and nations, the math is exact. The present is no place for romanticism; it is the surgical rethinking of the past to prevent the collapse of the future. Sustaining contradictions and ignoring the historical record is not progress—it is complicity in our own destruction.
Acknowledging the error is not an act of weakness, but the only pragmatic step to disarm the mechanism before the finish line becomes the end of us all.
Miguel Westerberg
Pernambuco, Brazil
Republican
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