When man landed on the moon in 1969, I was obsessed with making ends meet, so I didn't pay the event enough attention. This means that intimate setbacks should not cross certain boundaries; Otherwise, those who suffer from it will remain on the sidelines of history (unfortunately, not making ends meet has never been enjoyed because it is a historical event). But when domestic unrest becomes rampant and affects significant portions of the population, the surrounding area becomes saturated with hair growth salesmen, saviors of the land, exegetes of the Seventh Seal (or the Eighth, now I'm not falling for that) and Pentecostal Methodists. Everything suggests that we are facing one of those periods of collective unrest that nevertheless has specific qualities.
In 1969 we had uncertainty about the future, yes, because there was a future. Now we suffer from an insecurity without a future because economic ultra-liberalism has put an end to it after engulfing the landscape. Uncertainty without a future is like an anxiety attack that cannot transform into a migraine that responds to traditional painkillers. Simple fear, fear that is not somatized, plunges us into depression, into misery. Therefore, nowadays more people die than are born (the average family consists of a couple and a dog or, failing that, a cat), hence the success of anomalies the size of Milei, of Trump, of Bolsonaro…
The lack of horizon, caused by the impossibility for young people to find at least a stable job with a decent salary and thus access to adequate housing, leads to forms of collective discouragement, which, to give another example, record alarming numbers of suicides or suicide attempts among our young people.
The normal thing is to quote Gramsci, which always looks good, to push the panorama to the fact that the analogue didn't just die out and that the digital wasn't just born, but that's not it, that's not it. The thing is, after Sunday afternoon, Monday morning should come. And what comes is another Sunday afternoon, etc.
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