Maybe it's because we can't stop being Marxists, or because we've taken polarization to the extreme, but we're very good at looking at the world in terms of dialectical opposites. Left and right, rich and poor, Madrid and Barça, sweet and salty, country and city, classic and modern, etc. Success or failure are also considered absolute and exclusive categories, but the reality is always harsher. Feijóo knows well that the success of an election can mean political failure, but one does not have to resort to paradox to understand that humanity is not divided into a mass of winners and another of failures, but rather into a minority the former, a slightly larger group than the latter and a huge gray area of people pulling. And this is without going into the subjective aspects of success or failure, which have both social validation and an intimate feeling.
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Television has made this dialectic its raison d’être. Few cultures no longer forgive failure and reward success. Now that he no longer governs with the imperial cruelty of old and is wondering how to maintain his dwindling audience and attract young people hypnotized by Instagram and Tiktok, perhaps he should reconsider the dichotomy he has lived in since birth . Maybe we no longer have to fight like hyenas for a share point. Maybe being second or third isn't that important. Maybe it's time to accept that television can live in that gray area where success and failure are chimeras or lotteries that almost always affect others and transform your business into something more sedate. Maybe it's time to live the way almost all of us live, without fanatical dialectics.
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