We don't know where we are. The principle of uncertainty prevails in Argentina. It is logical in the face of choices to allude to the physicist Heisenberg according to whom it is impossible to determine precisely the position of a particle at a given time.
Perpetual motion obstructs the possibility of precision. But it is not about quantum mechanics but about society, although Argentina is somewhat similar to the uncertain and wonderful world of Heisenberg.
Heisenberg's paradox lies in the curious fact that the more you measure, the less accurate you have about the positions of subatomic particles.
It goes for surveys, with all due respect. The measurements so far do not provide precisions but uncertain probabilities.
Even so, some approximations could be outlined: Argentine society ponders the explicit will to power.
He quickly demolished Alberto Fernández for not exhibiting it, although he was also and perhaps above all demolished by his "partner" Cristina Fernández who has manifested her manifest and historical will to power. "Let's go for everything" was his essential motto.
Meanwhile Alberto Fernández and Massa crush each other and embrace simultaneously. The same goes for Massa and Scioli, and for Massa who confronted Cristina so much and who now associates her with his project. Or is she the one who associates Massa with her project?
Fighting with open claws and hugging simultaneously, all against all, everyday Argentine scenes Where is CFK now? Lost or winner? There is a debate. It is affirmed on the one hand that taking into account the circumstances he won a refuge regardless of the inclemency of the campaign, and threw into the ring a candidate who unifies Peronism.
It could also be said that he lost his former prominence and decided to move to winter quarters.
Both hypotheses could be true. Peronism is not framed within the traditional logic.
There are two contradictory truths about Peronism, that movement that refutes the principle of non-contradiction. It is true that it is divided, and that sometimes it divides to the point of paroxysm and bullets. But at the same time it is true that it also unites, subordinating itself vertically to those who do manifest an open will to power. This is the case of the phenomenon that Sergio Massa could articulate.
In the opposition, the opposing candidates express both Rodriguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich's desire for power. But, strictly speaking, we must distinguish the desire from the will to power. By will are understood the actions aimed at the real construction of power.
Desire seeks power in conjunction with other political actors. The will to power builds by confronting diverse actors and projects.
Press ConferenceTogether for changeThe last photo of Larreta and Bullrich, together. It was to denounce Kirchnerism for the violence in Jujuy. Photo Federico Lopez Claro
It is the dilemma between Rodríguez Larreta and Patricia Bullrich according to social perception.
But uncertainty prevails because no one knows what may happen tomorrow.
Will Massa's forced price freeze work effectively?
The paradox of a minister who is a candidate and economy minister simultaneously with an exploited inflation is one of the inscrutable Argentine curiosities.
At the same time, it is also curious that the opposition plays with the fire of sharp internal oppositions that would complicate a meeting of opponents after the primaries.
But there is something deeper than the fires, at one point fatuous, of internism.
In a beautiful, tragic book; The Year of Magical Thinking, the writer Joan Didion reflects on death and goes through her own atrocious mourning and enunciates something very simple and hopeless: "Life changes fast / life changes in an instant / you sit down to dinner and the life you knew ends ..." It is valid for the uncertain sequences of personal life and it is valid for social life, and very particularly for collective life in Argentina where a presidential formula can change in a last move that surprised locals and strangers.
Everything that preceded that event that sacrificed Wado de Pedro to impose Sergio Massa was already diluted in the air that dissipates from the past.
There is nothing unusual about this in Argentina.
The unpredictable prevails.
That should be perceived and corrected if things were rational, a need to breathe normality and predictability would be logical.
But a habituation to surprises is detected, which disarms the surprising character of surprises. We all know that anything can happen.
There is a social biorhythm that is arrhythmic. It is society that circulates in uncertainty as in its known and preferable habitat.
That is why there is no stability. Because instability is the broken heart of Argentine darkness.
As if those perfect fluctuations were our solid ground, oxymoron if there are any.
There is no dry land.
We sail from storm to storm.
Maybe it's time to choose a safer port; A country without inflation, without capricious leadership, but that for us seems to be a distant chimera.
Although it is also true that even utopias can become real and tangible.
At the same time it is also true that utopias can always remain unattainable.
Always.
This is the year of the magic moment. Those circumstances in which everything can change.
Change?
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