...ideas change how we think, which changes how we speak and how we act. It’s a simple truth, recognizing cause and effect. In Caracus, after Hugo Chávez was first elected, Fidel said people suffer because of “nicely sweetened but rotten ideas ... that man is an animal moved only by a carrot or when beaten by a whip.” That is, we suffer because of false ideas about what it means to be human.The power of ideas is precisely why a ruling class makes vigorous efforts to control the vehicles of ideas--education, media, and even entertainment.
Meanwhile, back at the Empire's ranch, we see a different take on Castro's death.