The Seven of Cups from Rider Waite's tarot deck is, in my opinion, the card that best explains the present. A man with his back turned, fascinated by the appearance of seven glasses floating in the mist. From each of them arise the banal and the unknown, threats and promises that fascinate you with the splendor of the immediate. Everything you were promised will disappear as soon as you reach out your hand. And yet his brilliance enchants him until he loses his mind.
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Without the plasticity that illustrator and Golden Dawn member Pamela Colman Smith brought to this deck, the mobile screen gave us the same thing for hours, every day, for years. One of its clumsiest and most pathetic representatives is the daffodil known as Llados and functionally illiterate named Amadeo. This carnival charlatan, a devilish embodiment of an impossible Tom of Finland empowered from the worst nightmares of a Pedro Vera, is pursued by thousands of poor, lower-class devils who have no expectations of a job and know that life is very is bitchy, and there is little work and poorly paid – they give him what little money they have in the hope of achieving what the hypertrophied, tacky Miami resident promises: tattoos, lambos, girls, one damn mansion and earn 500k a year. And the rest: pocket money. The enemy of the Mileurist Belly insults them and tells them that it's their fault things aren't going well because they don't get up at five in the morning to do burpees and meditate on who knows what. Llados is, to give you an idea, the “chute” that remains in the toilet of the wildest capitalism. A lying and faulty skid.
Last Friday, the investigative team broadcast a much-needed broadcast with data that every Internet user knows, but that is completely unknown to Llados' potential victims. Congratulations to those responsible for its creation and output. The world has reached an extreme of broken promises and an uncertain future in which there will soon be no middle class, only a vast underclass on the edge of poverty. Anyone who promises to “get out of the Matrix” is the worst of his accomplices. Stay away from characters like Llados and warn whoever you can. It sounds stupid, but it's even worse. He is a jackal of broken souls.
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