It is very problematic for me to cross more than two polite words with people who abuse with impunity in their language the convenient sign of the times, who repeat awkward terms ad nauseum, but who have been repelled by the new powers as much as they have been blessed by the previous. They arouse in me a resentment similar to that I have felt since childhood for the treatments that certain people have received. What the heck did they mean, what supernatural qualities embodied by these beings they referred to as Your Majesty, Your Eminence, Your Holiness, Your Highness, Your Excellency, Your Majesty and other titles that were as ostentatious as they were unwillingly Dadaist?
I don’t envision a true artist, but I do envision a multitude of politicians whose goal is to get that kind of recognition, to be beatified by academies and institutions. I imagine that his highest aspiration is that his work brings wonderful feelings to his people, the people he loves. And of course the audience too, so grateful in their gestures for what amuses them, inspires them, identifies with them, heals them. The joy and mission of musicians, writers, filmmakers and other artists is understandable when one realizes that what they intended to express has touched people’s souls and brought them joy.
These little things come to mind as I observe the fuss made about the title of “Exalted” bestowed by his old university, President Ayuso, that you accept the recognition of “Exalted”, a distinction as lofty as it is vain, which is due to him problem. But most painful and grotesque was the speech of the most distinguished student of this faculty, a Vulcan and Jacobean lady with pathetic difficulties in expressing herself with a minimum of coherence, intelligence or grace. And I wonder, listening to the most famous student, what the worst students in this university are going to be like. I would be among them.
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