Revolutionary Ideals

12-12-07

I’m reading Che’s motorcycle Diaries, although translated into english, and I am finding myself identifying and learning a lot from him, not as the symble or cult-ideal, but as a person. I do know that I want to be a revolutionary, not with guns but with ideas; traveling and experiencing, trying to create a more fair world.

Here in Costa Rica I see that the poor countries loose doubly in capitalism: both in money and in integrity. I hate how the people here are stuck on money, on paying, on gaining, on rich Americns. It’s like the whole culture is based on Americans having, and Costa Ricans wanting. Having and wanting both seem wrong to me, I feel we should all live and appreciate. But then I feel guilty saying that… it’s easy for me to say if I am gringa and come from money. It’s easy to say I don’t want to have things when I have never experienced not having.

All I know is that here I can see that it would be better for everyone to share and live together, but that is of course very idealistic and apparently impossible. Capitalism creates an unequal and instable system, but communism is apparently impossible. We need something else, something no one has thought of yet, both on an interpersonal scale and also globally.

The question is, knowing our evolutionary and hard-wired make up, knowing how humans are and with a cynical mind set, how can we change the system?