“Don't read odes, my son.
You better check the train schedules.
They are more exact”, Enzensberger advised in
Poesías for those who do not read poetry
.
He didn't say anything about the schedules of the planes.
But I suspect, like me, you would get on your nerves every time you hear that tiresome and irritating mantra of “through no fault of our own there has been a delay”.
I also get very upset when they report on that device called television, which spews out horror stories and unrepentant nonsense all the time, that another heat wave is approaching.
And I wonder: but has he ever gone?
They assure us that this month 2,000 people have died here because of it.
That is almost better than continuing to endure the suffering that this causes in the minds and brains of so many people in chronic depression, with their brains and hearts exposed to the elements.
And then what happens happens.
Albert Camus already told it at the beginning of
The foreigner
:
“I killed a man I didn't know on a beach in Oran because it was hot”.
On television, not only in the news, but in almost all of its programming, the presenters make a dramatic gesture and gaze by announcing every five minutes: “we warn you that the images that we are going to offer are very harsh, that they can hurt your sensitivity ”.
I imagine that such images are the most coveted when doing daily programming.
The bosses of the racket must bellow: "I want three murders, five beatings, six rapes."
Gore, extreme violence, sentimental pornography have always had a privileged niche in the market.
The audiences must grant their blessing to the planned morbidity, to these unhealthy little things.
What a relief to know that for a month I am going to be free from the company of this tedious theater called television.
And since I don't have social networks, I won't hear about the horrible news of the world either.
My mental health is already beginning to appreciate it.
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