All these discussions about smoking ban. It is not about smoking at all. It is about Argentina loosing its savage freedom spirit. I don't mean freedom in "ability to participate in elections" sense. Wild west type of freedom. Barbaric and irrational freedom. A feeling that you can do anything you want. Piqueteros are a good example of this, but it is more like an internal feeling and does not have to go to the extremes. People can greet each other in the middle of the road and stay there for a while talking and cars will go around them. Just because they want to. Nobody will question their right to stand there. Nobody will say that it is against a regulation number this and city ordinance number that.
I see garbage on the streets as a manifestation of this spirit. As well as many other things you people complain about here. And I like it better than neatly trimmed lawns of american suburbs with a cult of lawn mower as a key attribute of house ownership.
Now we have these printed paper sheets with black digits 1799 everywhere like portraits of big brother and people seem to have accepted it. As a reminder that if somebody tomorrow decides that in the middle of your dinner you have to run out and jump around a restaurant a little, because it is good for your health, you don't have any choice but to obey.
Some people can consider it as a progressive move for various reasons. Argentines may think it is good because it brings them closer to the US and European standards. Somehow I do feel that something important was taken from me. May be just my illusions
A joke:
A dog is digging out potatoes with a shovel working in a vegetable garden by the house. There is a small crowd of people on the other side of the fence watching this in disbelief. The dog turns to them at says: You know it all started when I learned how to bring my master a newspaper...
I see garbage on the streets as a manifestation of this spirit. As well as many other things you people complain about here. And I like it better than neatly trimmed lawns of american suburbs with a cult of lawn mower as a key attribute of house ownership.
Now we have these printed paper sheets with black digits 1799 everywhere like portraits of big brother and people seem to have accepted it. As a reminder that if somebody tomorrow decides that in the middle of your dinner you have to run out and jump around a restaurant a little, because it is good for your health, you don't have any choice but to obey.
Some people can consider it as a progressive move for various reasons. Argentines may think it is good because it brings them closer to the US and European standards. Somehow I do feel that something important was taken from me. May be just my illusions
A joke:
A dog is digging out potatoes with a shovel working in a vegetable garden by the house. There is a small crowd of people on the other side of the fence watching this in disbelief. The dog turns to them at says: You know it all started when I learned how to bring my master a newspaper...