{"id":25614,"date":"2017-09-14T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25614"},"modified":"2017-09-14T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T11:07:10","slug":"no-gas-in-florida-give-truth-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25614","title":{"rendered":"No Gas in Florida: Give Truth a Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/09\/14\/no-gas-in-florida-give-truth-a-chance\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">No Gas in Florida: Give Truth a Chance<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_95838\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95838\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-5.55.26-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-5.55.26-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-5.55.26-PM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/09\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-13-at-5.55.26-PM-768x514.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by el-toro | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As I heard Florida\u2019s governor demanding gas, I wondered why they don\u2019t learn from Cuba, and send buses. Cuba was there in the CBC newscasts about Florida. It was the country under the satellite image, under the \u201clingering\u201d eye of category five Irma. For hours, that awful image was in the background as the CBC anchor kept returning to Florida\u2019s need for gas.<\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t learn from Cuba. And it is not because Cuba is part of the world\u2019s \u201cleft-overs\u201d, who don\u2019t count and whose ideas don\u2019t count either. It\u2019s not even because of Cold War mentality. The problem is deeper. It\u2019s about culture and truth. In short, it\u2019s about a culture that denies truth.<\/p>\n<p>The popular cultural anthropologist, Wade Davis, says cultures teach us about humanness.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/09\/14\/no-gas-in-florida-give-truth-a-chance\/#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a> He claims to catalogue cultural wealth to know what it means to be human. He gives a platform to cultural representatives expressing \u201cthe better angels of our nature\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t catalogue the culture of imperialism. And he gives no platform to the cultures of resistance long opposing it. He writes, \u201cWithin this diversity of knowledge and practise [of cultures] \u2026 we will all rediscover the enchantment of being what we are, a conscious species\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not all.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban scholar, Juan Marinello, writes that one of the great puzzles about Cuba, for its enemies, is how ideas have survived. Somehow, in the late nineteenth century, with the US in economic glory, Jose Mart\u00ed, independence leader, knew Latin Americans could be modern and free without following the US.<\/p>\n<p>And he grasped something not then expressed, which 60 years later would galvanize the poor on three continents: anti-imperialism.\u00a0 Many who study Cuba fail to understand, or even to ask, how such ideas remained motivating through six dark decades of US cultural imposition after Mart\u00ed\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Gas in Florida: Give Truth a Chance Photo by el-toro | CC BY 2.0 As I heard Florida\u2019s governor demanding gas, I wondered why they don\u2019t learn from Cuba, and send buses. Cuba was there in the CBC newscasts about Florida. It was the country under the satellite image, under the \u201clingering\u201d eye of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5493,1983,940,349,13113,1250],"class_list":["post-25614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-cuba","tag-florida","tag-gas","tag-susan-babbitt","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25615,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions\/25615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}