Osvaldo Pepe
02/23/2021 19:09
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 02/23/2021 19:09
The VIP vaccination in times of the deadly virus unleashed a political scandal and also opened the door to the
verbal excesses
of the government casts.
During his visit to Mexico and in a press conference with his counterpart from that country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President Alberto Fernández uncovered his anger and exposed something of the Creole idiosyncrasy: “There is no criminal type in Argentina that says 'The one who vaccinates another who went ahead in line will be punished.'
There is no such crime
and you cannot build crimes gracefully.
We have already lived it ”.
Beyond this unthinkable apology for “Creole liveliness”, that
advantageous sense
of life that leads to a modest devaluation of the ethics of existence, the President is right.
Many times, the ruling elites have moved the strings of decisions that impact the private lives of citizens at will.
And they have done it, in addition to "gracefully", arbitrarily.
As now with the case of vaccines.
What caught the attention of his fierce anger was the practical philosophy content that it represented.
The "it is not a crime" leads to
a muddy avenue with one foot on legality and the other on the margins of the prohibited.
And more: of what "should not be done" neither in public function nor in private lives.
There are unwritten norms and codes of morals implicit
in the communal fabric of societies.
Lying to put together a farcical story and forge the story is not a crime.
It is unseemly
.
Indoctrinating the sense of political hatred, and even personal, in young generations just when they began to heal the injuries of parents and grandparents, is not a crime either.
It is worse than that
: it is having reopened a deep wound in the collective unconscious of Argentines, which is bleeding again.
Just a couple of examples of the Kirchnerist catechism, which Alberto Fernández promised in some way to forget in order to "return better."
The President, surely, did not think that his metaphor of sneaking into line could be associated with a distant identity plot of Argentines.
We are a country that was born to its independent life with a Revolution that wanted to free us from a yoke (the Spanish), but not only to found the Homeland, which it did: also to run into the arms of contraband (English), fed by the prosperous manchesterian workshops, in full industrial boiling.
A historical ambivalence that became a disgruntled cultural emblem and became an x-ray of the popular soul, which José Hernández sculpted in the Creole mentalities.
On the one hand, the advantageous and accommodative cynicism, with a barely concealed greed, of the Old Vizcacha and
his remembered "make friends with the judge ..."
, a mandate that more than a century and a half later the vernacular political castes would honor to the point of exaggeration.
And on the other side, the rebellious, transgressive and libertarian epic of the gaucho Martín Fierro, who always reminds us as a native Socratic gadfly that
"... always the most faithful friend is an honest behavior"
, a segment that did not find too fertile soil in our governments.
Finally, the President asked "to end this clowning."
Why bother now, with the burning embers of the VIP vaccine, with the noble profession of the clown?
If the Government itself had already done it when it sat the friendly clown Filomena on Children's Day (former Children's Day) with the now-new Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, when announcing the daily report of infections and deaths from the most dire of the viruses that swept through this ravaged land of health and political pandemics.
Look also
Alberto Fernández described the complaints for the vip vaccination as “a clown” and pointed to Justice
The remarkable change of Alberto Fernández in Mexico: from encapsulating the scandal to a furious Tuesday
