Why are there almost no images of police, military and civil guards working hard in Valencia? It could be that the television stations do not get them. Maybe. They do broadcast, and many of them, those of conspicuous volunteers, “only the people save the people”, surely to illustrate the fallacy of the “failed State”. In all catastrophes there are many volunteers, thank goodness.
The horror has fallen on the province of Valencia, on the people and their belongings, that is undisputed: the people save the people with the taxes they pay. so that in the devastated area has been deployed the largest rescue and aid device in the history of this country.. For the first aid and for those to come. No one can mitigate the damage, no one can recover the lives lost. But pedagogy can be used to alleviate the pain. Why a week without spokespersons to tell about the deployment? Spokespersonship is an indispensable requirement in the management of any crisis, because if you don’t explain it, others will explain it, and we have already seen who those ‘others’ are.
The last straw in the United States: a criminal still with several pending prosecutions Will we learn anything in Europe? The first time this character acceded to office, we learned little. Again, the speeches of the European corpus parties in the dialectic of bonhomie of 1945, after having defeated Nazism. The future generations already present, if they read do not read the realities in that battered register. There is only room for “fix this”, the immediacy of a keystroke on the keyboard. The soul of past humanity has been diluted on a screen, in the pounding repetition of a syncopated rhythm. But the horror of the catastrophes is just as damaging, only now it is often reproduced. ad infinitum to the delight of the ignorant. In short, long live life, in spite of everything.