Being a democrat is very tiring and ungrateful, you are never satisfied. Being a facha, on the other hand, is easy and anyone can become it. For the modest price of a theater ticket at La Villarroel, Mercè Aránega teaches a one-hour course, in which she reels off some of the most convincing arguments. It is a monologue based on the essay Instructions to become a Fascist by the Sardinian author Michela Murgia.
From the outset, being a facha is what it takes, therefore there is no need to justify yourself. With respect to the political organization, everything is reduced to a boss, so that you save having to go to vote, the electoral campaigns, the polls, the doubts between this party or that split. And on the rebound, many salaries are saved. Language, culture, religion are also reduced to one. No chaos or arguments. They are all advantages.
With a generous dose of sarcasm and irony, Aránega addresses the public, looks him in the eye, and gives him advice on how to be a fascist, the easiest and surest way to be happy. Make it clear, for example, that language is the basis of everything, you just have to appropriate a few words that you thought were everyone’s heritage, and that’s it. You can start by owning the word freedom. You cannot disperse emotions, you have to concentrate your forces on specific enemies, who are labeled as others: women, gays, immigrants… The key is to trivialize, forget about diversity and multiple options, abandon responsibility and give yourself up to blame whoever.
At the end, when Aránega greets amid enthusiastic applause for his great work, he looks the audience in the eye, now out of the role of monologist, and confesses: “It costs, eh, it costs”. The man in the back row connects his cell phone and gets an ad for the party that Cavall Fort vetoes.
