The film All of a sudden, one of the Oscars favourites, is very wacky and without spoiling anything, the point is that there are many versions of this world, parallel worlds that we live in at the same time, with different lives. . . And to get from one to the other, you have to do something absurd. You do it and wham you go to another dimension. So rest assured that this is the only world that exists because if that were true we all know people who would keep disappearing because of the stupid things they say or do. And I myself might not even be able to finish this column.
But who knows, maybe there’s a world where Ciudadanos has an absolute majority, and with these weird things they’re doing, they’re trying to move there. It may also explain that even I find secret White House documents at home, they must have accidentally traveled through the multiverse. And it would definitely give Feijóo meaning that when he speaks, you don’t know what world he lives in, whether he’s going to the center or going back to the extreme right. The president of the employers’ association disappeared from the meeting to raise the minimum wage as a joke. And even the King of Morocco at the airport where Pedro Sánchez arrived, who would feel like in this tweet he posted (when he was nobody) when a taxi driver took him where he wanted: “Taxi the longest Away; What am I saying, am I doing? I don’t know what absurdly the monarch must have done to disappear like this, but it seems he was at his mansion in Gabon: he’s absurdly rich. On the other hand, Irene Montero defends nothing other than defending her law that only yes is, and the fact is that it does not go away. There are also people who pop up all the time and everywhere, you don’t know why, like Tamara Falcó or the Benidorm Festival.
Just as Jabois said there’s a whole world where Zidane misses his volley in the Champions League final, it’s clear that Oriol Junqueras found himself in a universe that isn’t exactly what he was in the other day: you give you three and a half years in jail and when you get out they whistle at you and call you a traitor. The man would wonder if he’d said anything absurd in the last six years to end up there. And yes, it is, but don’t worry, it was a collective phenomenon. These people who insulted him were still in the universe he and others drew for them and see how you get them out of there. You should tell them something logical, they should try at least once, instead of jumping into more and more complicated worlds.
As if that wasn’t enough, now we have the Metaverse. Since the advent of the selfie stick, I dare not predict the failure of anything seemingly stupid, but I’d swear it’s a huge hoax. My colleague Jordi Pérez Colomé has gone through this world where there is nothing from the waist down, you see what a plan, and he confirms that it is an astral boredom. This is the world we have and the worst of it is the impossible worlds that are in it. Iran for example. How is it possible that a woman, actress Mozhgan Ilanlu, is sentenced to 74 lashes and nine years in prison for not wearing a headscarf? How is it possible that they sentence two young people to ten years in prison for dancing in the street? Apartheid South Africa existed in a world that was far from ideal, and international isolation and especially the end of the Cold War game board forced the country to shift itself into our times. The closest thing to apartheid today is what is happening to women in Iran and other countries. It’s an intolerable absurdity, and that’s where it’s going.
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