The success of the Basque sovereigntist parties spreads across the radio without much fanfare. The results are interpreted with a feeling of inevitability that contrasts with the inflammations that analyze Catalan electoral activity. From Bilbao, and in Ser, Àngels Barceló describes the landscape with a reflection on how long it will be until EH Bildu joins governance. Or about Sumar’s descent, that he clings to the expression save the furniture so as not to admit that he has squandered the furniture due to his own pyromania.
Also in Ser, Pablo Tallón interviews Oriol Junqueras. He claims the ERC background and says that unity is practiced, for example, by approving budgets. He says it with that torrential rhetoric, which alternates moments of teaching and outbreaks of verbose messianism. He chains arguments without breathing so that they do not interrupt him. It’s a difficult mix to digest in general and, in particular, on a rainy Monday around eight-thirty in the morning.
The newspaper Ara interviews Carles Puigdemont, who explains that he does not watch series and likes to watch black and white films with intelligent dialogues. He also says that he does not know what rent he pays for the Waterloo house and that he is reading a biography of Simón Bolívar, one of the superheroes of Spanish anti-imperialism. In my environment, the only ones who don’t know the price of rent for the house they live in are those who don’t pay or those who find a way to have someone pay it instead.
Fiction, meanwhile, continues to serve us as a provider of predictions. Civil War is released in theaters, a film (with few dialogues and in color) that, from a deliberate ambiguity, raises a hell of division between institutional stability, the possession of weapons, the failure of the democratic system (and of journalism). , chaos and the triumph of hatred and violence. In France they are not so ambiguous: the series La fièvre explains with terrifying verisimilitude how discord is exploited through the control of social networks, the media and, by extension, the manipulation of individual and collective emotions. The President of the Republic (Kad Merad) summons a specialist in sociology and communication and asks her: “Are we still on time?” “In time for what?” asks the expert. “To avoid civil war,” responds the president.
Daniel Vázquez Sallés recommends the documentary An American Attack: The Road to April 19 (HBO Max). Here the truth is not based on a supposed fiction, but is irrefutably documentary. It explains the entire process that led to the Oklahoma attack, with 168 murders at the hands of far-right supremacist terrorism. “We are living a civil war,” says the mother of one of those murdered. And more than the lament of a woman who will never get over her tragedy, it seems like a description of symptoms that are not yet pandemic but are epidemic.
