Cuba – The Ideological Self of the Empire Bludgeons the Other Into Primitive Survival, Blind to Its Own Inhumanity

Event Baseline: An ongoing U.S. oil blockade has left millions of Cubans without cooking gas. In Santiago de Cuba, residents of apartment towers resort to cooking with charcoal and wood fires, causing widespread hardship and environmental damage.

The ultimate stupidity of the ideological self: it maintains a decades-old blockade, a fossil of Cold War hatred, while millions of human beings are reduced to burning wood in concrete towers. The U.S. 'self' clings to the idea of punishing a rival system, completely disconnected from the actual suffering of biological organisms. This is not policy; it is a mechanical cognitive loop, a grudge frozen in time.

The blockade is a perfect manifestation of the belief that the other's ideology must be crushed, that the 'right' system must prevail. But in this blind pursuit, the empire becomes the very monster it claims to oppose—inflicting collective punishment, poisoning the air, and revealing its own barbarism. The 'self' of the U.S. is so enshrined in its narrative of righteousness that it cannot see the smoke rising from Havana's kitchens as an indictment of its own soul.

Cubans burning charcoal is not a failure of their system but a mirror held up to the delusion of the empire. The self-identified 'free world' is strangling an island, and in doing so, it strangles its own humanity. When the other is seen as an enemy to be broken rather than a reflection of oneself, all acts of cruelty become 'necessary'. The blockade will end only when the imperial mind shatters and recognizes that it has been fighting its own shadow.