I just love how in Mexico’s politics one of the most frequent polemics/discussions are related to how politicians are so used to create agreements and alliances in a feudalistic way, instead of having serious debates about legislation or professionally investigating subjects.
So press, intellectuals or other politicians just start to scold them as if they were kids about how wrong it was, and then proceed to give them 101 lessons in basic legislation subjects and THE RULES OF HOW REAL LIFE DEMOCRACY AND BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS WORK.
And then for coping you make some dark humor jokes, because facing that a political system looks more like a kindergarten where YOUR FUTURE GETS DISCUSSED BY CHILDISH PEOPLE that want to bribe their way out is a very big feeling.
And somehow the country keeps going by the work of some few very intelligent people that find their way to make things happen. And it seems heroic when that happens, but sometimes a feeling stays in your stomach of why it has to be so demanding and pricey, as it leaves dense tolls and legacies.
And then I found this graph…
And many things made sense. Expecting to have the same performance as other countries that have had literacy rates over 90% with a century of advantage really makes a difference.
Some things are still very new in our consciousness, and we’re still finding out how they fully work. And the fact that most of the literature and knowledge are imported due to low internal intelectual activity that most of the time is actually carried by foreigners adds more challenges. It manifest when families that can afford studying abroad do it, because the pedagogy and the data of American or European countries is more consolidated.
And it gets scary when people know that they don’t know subjects as professionally as they should, so they get in a “I need to fake it” mentality for securing high-rank positions that most of the time aren’t prepared enough, taking advantage of the urgency they may require to be filled due to the low offers of quality minds and the high demand of them.
This causes a very defensive/paranoiac attitude in them, where they’re scared of being uncovered or displaced, and when they perceive someone that may have better qualities, they project their deficiencies in them for saving face, or sometimes even manipulate facts for having a justification that explains how they need to be in charge of them, creating unhealthy power dynamics that may end in an abusive spectrum with all the gaslighting and lies needed to keep their image.
They will defend their position by all costs, but with the price of not really having the best performance, which may materialize in poor planing and bad decision making, where people dependent of those institutions or companies where they work can be affected.
For me is the scariest part: seeing how something that may look just funny/cringy at the beginning can end being a tragedy with serious consequences. And damn, there’re so many examples of this in Mexico’s history, but that may be for another post.
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