Reading the morning newspapers is a pleasure. Or it used to be. Because, at this point, looking at the newspapers and media portals gives chills. It's like diving into the report of an insurer that had to reimburse the damages of the Seven Plagues of Egypt. Each note contains a distinct sign of the coming Apocalypse and each reader is an Nostradamus, in a robe and slippers, which sees the ominous signs of our fall as a species unfolding before them and spends the day in the office, school or workshop unraveling, along with those around him, the exact way in which the scrubbing will take us (or, to cite the headline of a newspaper in the time of the passage of Halley's comet in 1910, and illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada, the way in which “We will become puritito chicharrón ”).
Let's see: it is reported that the coronavirus epidemic is progressing, that the victims are counted by thousands and the context of the notes is nurtured with references to the Great Black Plague (with profusion of images of the sinister “crane-beak” mask of the doctors of the time), the Spanish influenza and the evils that decimated the Aztecs; or the extinction of a new animal species is communicated, without anyone having moved a finger to prevent it, and some are reminded that they have disappeared in the last century and hustle with lucid photos of their last and melancholic copies; or it is reported that in two months an asteroid will pass near the Earth that makes it look like a pumice stone that extinguished the dinosaurs and it is established that if the gravitational attraction plays a trick on us, then the game is over (a graphic is included of what would happen if a meteorite hits our planet and the recommendation to move to Easter Island is added, along with ten young goats, and put an organic garden there); or he ventures that political and military tensions in the Middle East threaten to provoke the Third World War (and the prophecies of the Virgin of Fatima, those of Baba Yaga and those of Monhi Seer are recalled, who also added that the Blue Cross could have another bad year); or well, of course, it is recognized that the numbers of national homicides (and feminicides) increase like foam and, given that some of them occur in creepy ways, since the media was missing more, they are reviewed with unhealthy excitement and social networks they replicate them with all docility ...
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At the same time, these media with approaches taken from a disaster movie cover their droplets of Revelation with tons of information worthy of a world of flat encephalograms. For example, the "news" about the lives of celebrities (their baptisms, vacations, diets and dinners); or the "costumes betrayals" of other celebrities (that is, what happens when an actress or singer is portrayed by a paparazzo at an angle in which she sees her underwear) ... And, of course, the collection of absurdities that It causes magical thinking: the "ghosts" that "inhabit" an old warehouse, the "haunting" faces detected in the shadows of a foggy video or the pursuit of traces that would have left ancestral aliens in Stonehenge stone or in the bathrooms for employees of metro line 2 ...
Total: the subtext that results from reading the media today is that, yes, the world is running out and we will become extinct just like the Sumatran rhino and the Chinese swordfish, but hey, it's not that it matters too much ... Because Kim Kardashian released new shoes and because the footballer Mbappé liked a photo of the actress Ester Expósito and the networks burned! ..
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