Omar Montes and the gorilla experiment

In 1999, psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons carried out a simple experiment: they sat several people across from two basketball teams and asked them to count the passes that the players of one of them gave to each other;

they all got the number right, only half realized that while they were trying to keep track of the score, a gorilla had crossed the field.

Selective attention is called, and it permeates everything we see and what we don't.

For example, some see in

a white and familiar program, while others perceive a festival of richness whose viewing beyond the duration of a zapping is only justified by the fact that the cat has sat on the remote control.

By chance, the first guest of Motos after his Golgotha ​​was Omar Montes, a character who in his television debut on

encouraged a partner to sexually abuse a drunk contestant, a sequence that would have fit into the highly effective campaign of the Ministry of Equality.

I don't know his musical merits, but as an expert in camouflaging the gorilla that crosses the field, he is unbeatable.

Disguising a mammoth ego as humility, he sells the motorcycle of the self-made winner, although his fame comes from having been the umpteenth tick of the Pantoja clan, with the same audacity that leads him to establish himself as a representative of neighborhood life from a

and covered in gold like King Nebuchadnezzar.

An art that allows him to get out of bizarre messes unscathed, including illegal parties of those that knock down a Prime Minister, but not a Mediaset Little Prince.

"I have just enough intelligence to get through the day," he says, aware of the advantages of appearing simple.

I suspect that when the lights go out he straightens up like Keyser Söze in The

tracksuit

for a silk dressing gown and settles into a wing chair while reading Marcus Aurelius: "All we hear is an opinion, not a done.

All we see is a perspective, not the truth."

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