Spanish politics has these literary flourishes: a president who, in addition to governing, reveals himself to us as an extraterrestrial biographer. Sánchez once again gains the upper hand over Ábalos, who plans to record his memories while he is in the shadows. Today, Sánchez, no … Content only with writing his own preliminary memoirs, he gives the impression of writing, chapter by chapter, the unauthorized memoirs of Ábalos, which he did not, however, do with his famous thesis.
In the first part of this unexpected creation, Ábalos appears as the essential “factotum”: without him, there would be no primaries, no triumphs, no nights of “resistance”. In the second case, it is only an “isolated case”. And in the epilogue, a distribution error corrected with a probe. All this, of course, told from the moral point of view of someone who “knew nothing” about suitcases, commission agents or entrepreneurial friendships: a mystic of selective ignorance who is only occasionally informed when the investigation comes back positive; As for the rest, “he knows nothing”.
In this literary work, the pinnacle of Spanish Parnassus, we see how wicked Ábalos’ fate is: going from the man who held the president’s ladder to being reduced to a useless doll dropped to the ground to dramatize how much the ruler suffers when, as we are told, “his hand does not tremble” in cutting his losses… when there is no other choice. And Ábalos then becomes a minister who has become an example of regeneration. But what is most striking in these memoirs is the genre: we no longer talk about political responsibility, but about the assembly of characters. A satirical political metafiction novel, where the narrator ironically reveals the fabrication of power and the selfish malleability of official history, where fiction becomes a mirror of reality.
Ultimately, it seems that in this legislature there is something more dangerous than commissions: versions. And that the only thing truly allowed is not the behavior, but the history of the person responsible. The others, like Ábalos, are reduced to footnotes that can be removed in the second edition, but what is really important will come to us at the end of this one, more tragic than comic.
Dionisio Martos Medina. Beas de Segura (Jaén)
Sexism in AI
I have read propaganda from the Department for Equalities which defines indirect violence as that carried out on women through their children, and AI describes it as “gender-based violence”. However, when interviewed in English, she maintains gender neutrality, citing examples like preventing children from seeing their parents, which coincides with studies from the Montreal Youth Institute, which indicate that in 68 percent of cases, the alienating figure is the mother. It is crucial that not only do women denounce abusers, but that men also raise their voices against the violence that some women inflict on their children in revenge.
Suso List. Santiago de Compostela (La Coruña)