Is Pi?ata Game an Innocent Tradition or an Assassin Training?

Perhaps, you are familiar with this old story. A daughter watched how her mother would always take a ham, would cut it on both sides, leaving two big sides behind and fry this middle part of ham on a frying pan. Mother would do it on the regular basis. Even though the frying pan was big with plenty of room for the whole ham, yet mother would always cut both sides before putting ham into the pan.

Finally, her little daughter asked the mother: “Why do you cut two big ends of the ham?” Mother answered, “I have no idea. Your grandmother has always done it, so I got used to doing the same. Let’s ask your grandmother.”

Together, the mother and daughter asked the grandmother, “Why would you always cut your ham on both sides before frying it?” The grandmother answered, “I had to cut it because our frying pan was too small, so I needed to make ham small enough to fit in the pan.”

The tradition of cutting pan started with the solid reason. Ham wouldn’t fit into the pan unless cut on both sides. But the action was repeated so many times that no one questioned the procedure anymore.

The frying pan was replaced with the big one, but the tradition continued. The mother didn’t think “WHY?” She would just repeat the same actions without knowing where it all came from and why she needed to do it. The tradition was kept until someone had to break the cycle by asking the question “WHY?”

I am sure, you also know about famous Pavlov’s dogs. A bell would ring, a dog would be fed. The action would be repeated so many times that it would instill the reflex in the dog:?A bell ringing = food so the dog would start salivating just by hearing the bell, knowing the food would be served, even though the food wasn’t there anymore. Again, it is also a sort of a tradition: a repeated action which results in a habitual response without thinking or questioning the cause of the tradition.

When they grow up with a tradition, very rarely people question the origin and the meaning of it. Yet, many insist on keeping it for the sake of a tradition. But are all traditions really innocent and worth keeping?

A pi?ata game is very popular and can be seen everywhere, especially, at children’s birthday parties.

Seemingly an innocent game, everyone is gathered together. Parents are watching and smiling. The reward is sweet: candy! Life is good!

Several years ago, my daughter was little and we would go to a play room. Once day there was a birthday party and a pi?ata was a part of it.

I was an observer from the outside. To me it was a horror movie, but in a real life.?A pi?ata was a beautifully decorated princess, looking very realistic. A group of small children, mostly boys, took heavy bats and started enthusiastically beating up the princess. She was strong and didn’t go down easily. I was watching how gradually she would lose her arm, her leg, her hair, half of her head, until finally, she succumbed.

The boys didn’t stop beating her up until she was completely killed. Then they partook of their sweet reward: candy! They happily run around collecting the candy, while adults were standing in a half circle, laughing. I couldn’t believe my eyes that no one saw what I saw. I wanted to scream. Instead, I collected my daughter, and we left the playroom.

Spiritually, one of our super powers is imagination, another is action. When we combine imagination with action, we create! First, we create in our imagination, then we make it real in the physical world. It all starts with imagination! A pi?ata game is both imagination and action combined.

A pi?ata is usually decorated and made in a form of something or someone very beautiful and cute: bright colors, realistic look:?a princess, a goat, a unicorn. Rarely, it is just a box. A boring box wouldn’t be fun, would it? And I have never seen anything sinister as a pi?ata.

So the children are gathered in a group (read “a gang”), provided with heavy bats (read “weapons”) and are told to beat up the beautiful, cute, harmless creature (who doesn’t have a weapon, but the way, and cannot defend herself/itself) until the creature is completely broken and on the floor in pieces (read “killed,” “dead,” "destroyed").

Once the “gang” accomplishes the task of killing -- which by the way, brings them JOY ?(everyone is laughing happily by beating the creature to death) – a sweet reward follows! They get rewarded for a successful murder. A princess is no more. The candy is eaten.

And the parents (read “the society,” “the authorities”) not only approve this act of imagination and action, but they have provided the means of accomplishing it.

What’s the difference between a shooting range, where everyone gets to aim at a human figure, imagining it is a real person and the pinata, where everyone is actively committing an imagined murder?

The sad part is all of the aggressive suggestion is subliminal and is recorded deep into the psyche. Outside, no one is aware! This suggestion will come out in the future in some destructive form, maybe not in actual killing, but there are many ways of destructive behavior. ?And when the act is repeated enough times – at your birthday and at your friends’ birthdays – the training is complete. The Pavlov’s dog is thoroughly trained!

I have been holding my point of view at a pi?ata tradition as an “assassin training started very early in life” to myself for a very long time. But we will never change our aggressive and destructive way of life if we don’t question our traditions and keep silence.

As an outside observer, I was shocked and horrified looking at the pi?ata tradition from the outside. I didn’t grow up with it. I could look at it objectively. I didn’t have it ingrained in my psyche as a sweet and innocent tradition. So it is my duty and responsibility to offer my point of view and ask those who follow this tradition:?Have you ever questioned it? Do you see what is really happening? What kind of a role playing is taking place? What is being suggested into the very young receptive minds who are just learning about life in the physical world?

How these young children grow up? What they will believe? How will this tradition be reflected in their future behavior?

Everyone has a choice. You can choose to call your pi?ata destruction game a “sweet innocent birthday party game,” and I look at it as a future assassin training. I choose peace and no killing, even if it is only a “game.” ?

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