Double Morality: A Case of a Cuban Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The state is not concerned with private opinion but with public opinion. Because propaganda is aimed at structuring, organizing and directing group behavior personal thought and private opinion is irrelevant. What government is concerned is with group behavior. It doesn’t matter if in your inner self you hate Marxist ideology, Fidel Castro or the Cuban Communist Party. It doesn’t matter if you express your personal views on politics at home as long as they don’t influence the behavior of the group. It is important that your private opinion stays private and the government takes care that you cannot reach any means of mass communication, whether print, radio, TV or Internet blogging and else.

Rendered impotent and entrapped in the maze of mass organizations and the like the individual develops a split personality, one half made of his truncated, buried private thinking, the other one of his public behavior. One person at home, another in Revolution square. A sort of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hide of ideology. Because is needed to survive and to prosper a double morality spread to all areas of life and society. They all hate the Cuban government and especially Fidel Castro, but on May 1^st they all go to Plaza de la Revolucion to chant ditirambic praises of the Revolution and its Commander in Chief.