Eat and shut up
This illustration attempts to graphically represent part of the social reality of Lima at the beginning of the 20th century, in which Gonzalez Prada describes:
The come-and-shut mentality began at home, where parents suppressed any opinion the child might have, drowning out this impulse to express itself. With this upbringing, an individual with little confidence was formed to be able to control his environment.
This system of come and shut up led the adult individual to maintain a passive role in the political.
Education, religion reinforced that system, which to this day (with different mechanisms but with the same purpose) continues to form passive, obedient, submissive citizens with no intention of breaking that tradition.
Excerpt from the book Under the shame:
The eat and shut mentality has been spread in such a way that it deserves to be placed on the obverse of our coins. This reveals a basic character trait… The ass, hard-working and long-suffering, does not seek to understand the psychology of his master; he chews his grass and remains silent; the masses even more miserable and perhaps more patient than the mule do not inquire about the moral or intellectual value of the muleteer; they have breakfast and keep their mouths shut.
Format: A4, tools: polychrome colors, blur,
materials: 180g Canson Bristol XL paper, technique: realism
