The pageant of Democracy, the one they instructed us about in our childhood, that was going to start when everybody was rational and educated, and the Spaniards put an finish to the previous hatreds of warfare, and commenced to consider working collectively, and in sharing tasks… even when every one had their variations… all the time accepting the opposite’s standpoint.
That get together appears to have ended, and now the get together of social networks and pretend information begins, in that supposed ultraliberalism, or anarcho-capitalism, which those that advocate it have no idea very nicely what it’s, however which is one thing like dominance. absolute of ‘the markets’, whoever has essentially the most cash, or essentially the most management within the media… Which quantities to the legislation of the strongest of all life, come on. And each man for himself.
Think about in that Talavera what position we individuals who dream of Peace, of pragmatic utopias, of Solidarity can play… if it’s the crude world the place every one goes to abuse the ability they’ve, to attempt to silence the opposite, to crush truths with that concept of ’post-truth’, that we should not have to respect actuality or logic, however merely shout louder.
We may depart like King Amadeo, fed up with absurd and inner fights and Hispanic irrationality, however we’ve got no different homeland.
We may let ourselves be carried away within the comfy two-party system for so long as it lasts, however that political life isn’t price residing.
What to do then?
Think about that in Talavera, too, the get together of ’78 is over, and we’ve got to start out once more, to rethink, many issues.