Blog 6: time travel to future

 

Hello everyone, today I am going to show you the future I imagine for Chile, for the year 2036. I choose that particular year because it will be when Santiago, my little friend and partner, will be 18 years old. 

I hope that by that time, the State and society will have undergone important transformations, in inclusion and equality, so that no one else in this country will have to die because they did not have access to health care, for example. 

By that year, I also hope that there will still be houses left in Santiago. I would like to think of a future where the neighborhood and neighborhood life continue to be a central part of social life and where the large vertical ghettos have been displaced along with the real estate companies that speculate with the price of land.

I also believe that in the future we will be living in a plurinational state that recognizes and protects native peoples. Thus, my son will be able to live a life free of violence because of his Mapuche ancestry. 

Although I would very much like to stay and live in that era, I have always been of the idea that each generation has a different mission than the one that precedes and succeeds it. In our case, our generation has to dismantle all dictatorial heritage. And that task has to focus us to act in the present. The constituent process and the presidential candidacy of comrade Gabriel Boric are examples of how interesting our present looks. That is why I choose to stay here.