Juan Miguel Vega: Incredible, but a lie – kudupinter World News Network

Years ago this Seville ABC had a section called “It’s Still 28-D” in which it published fake news that was fake news. The purpose of this section was not so much to address anyone, but to introduce a pinch of sarcastic irony between the … Every day’s informative story swamp. Something like “what should have been and isn’t or what could have been and thank God it isn’t.” If it existed today, this section could make headlines like this: “The central government reverses its refusal and will build the SE-40 tunnels”. In the development of the news, the text would be full of absurdities saying: “To repair the damage caused to the citizens of Seville due to the delay of the project, the executive of Pedro Sánchez will not limit the tunnels to the passage under the river and will bury the entire SE-40, which will pass through a tunnel of more than seventy kilometers lit by green energy, configuring a ring of sustainability around the city. The work will be fully completed in September 2026.” It would not be a question, as you will have understood, of deceiving anyone, because no one in their right mind would believe such news, but rather of putting a touch of acid sarcasm on a controversial i, by varnishing the criticism with humor. As its name suggests, the section draws on the long tradition of the Hispanic press to publish milongas on this day, adding to the national custom of playing tricks on others, hanging paper dolls on their backs and other such things, to celebrate the Day of the Holy Innocents. A custom that has been lost, I don’t know if it was considered old-fashioned, not very rigorous, or even Francoist. As a palliative for their absence in the newspapers, there appeared the innocent jokes that social networks offer us in abundance, which, yes, do not wait for December 28, lack irony and claim to be truthful, which is the worst: prophets of Armageddon, charlatans of pseudoscience, conspiracy fanatics and an infinite number of madmen pour into our phone an endless string of absurdities to which reason everyone succumbs too often. a large number of sincere souls. The emergence of this phenomenon leads us to wonder whether the world has embarked on a worrying journey back into the darkness of myths and superstitions. The complete opposite of what we expected from this era of technological overdevelopment. To deal with such a worrying drift, it is urgent to rediscover irony, which is the most beautiful expression of intelligence; this intelligence that the world seems to need so much at this time. For that, we could retrieve this section from “It’s Always 28-D” or, better yet, this other comic strip where we baby boomers learned to read and, above all, to interpret life with healthy skepticism. “Incredible but untrue,” they said. “Joe Flannagan – said one of his ‘news’ – started selling newspapers and became a multimillionaire. No one can explain how he can be in prison today. It seems current, doesn’t it? Well, the joke is more than forty years old.

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