Pros And Cons Of Fidel Castro

As I walk through the halls, a distinguishable feeling tends to overwhelm me, tending to feel as though a cold knife carves away at my brain, a pang of slight sorrow yet with an accent of justification to offset it. This feeling of cold fame, notoriety, may become an addiction for some people; or it may even develop into a rusty gnarled cage that gnaws at its prisoner’s skin. A lesson that these people may learn from their imprisonment may come in the form of an idea, and now they just need to hope that idea does not follow them into their inevitable oblivion. Some of the world’s greatest thinkers have been plagued by this feeling, their ideas scorned by their peers. Notoriety is often a vicious cycle, taking ideas and shoving them through …show more content…
When one leader becomes notorious, his immediate peers often catch his disease. A great example of this might exist in the Cuban Revolution; Fidel Castro gained the majority of the notoriety through that war, he fell much deeper into the abyss of notoriety than his friend Che Guevara. Fidel Castro soaked up most of the negative notoriety, and in the meantime Che became an iconic figure to the Cubans. This sort of infection happened very often in history and is still evident in our society today. Our society is built around this kind of notoriety, people naturally form pairs. This natural buddy system constantly forms around us; can you tell me that you have never seen a pair, or even a trio of friends who follow each other? This dynamic is exactly how we use notoriety to our advantage, one of those friends will take most of the heat while the other becomes “the good …show more content…
The boogie-man was created to scare children into staying home at night, he was notorious for eating children who left to go explore the city. Many horrors are based on this premise; ghosts are notorious for scaring people, aliens are notorious for eating people, and demons are notorious for burning people. Horror stories could not exist without notoriety, people are naturally afraid of things that are famous for being frightening. Notoriety is the building block for mass hatred, and mass hatred is the perfect condition for terrifying ideas to thrive. There are thousands of horror films built upon these nefarious ideas, each adaptation getting scarier and scarier. These films are attractive to the normal person to indulge upon; these people even revel in these notorious