Simplicity, in a surreal sort of way…

Only problem is that, for most in Latin America, the only way to achieve access to “luxuries” like a refrigerator is to break away from the status quo and the only way to achieve that is through radical ideas. The opposite is conformity and acceptance of poverty. Look down, pull your pants down and bend over.
Heck!, at least the Hindus are honest and they’ve had a system of castes for millennia. They are very overt about it, even though change is blurring the lines. The hypocrisy of using a covert caste system in Occident is quite repugnant.
Bush, Chavez or Refrigerators?

As Marta Lagos, head of Latinobarometro put it, “people in Latin America are no longer interested in buying the dreams offered by extreme ideologies.'” Rather, she said, “they want to buy refrigerators.”

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