Daniel Gascón, brilliant Aragonese intellectual critical of the proces, described the other day in El País the consequences of the conflict between the Catalan independence movement and the Spanish State with a metaphor that was both simple and profound. "From banks to marriages, passing through political systems, almost everything breaks down in the same way: first little by little and then suddenly". In fact, a long period of dull, constant and insidious unrest always precedes the collapse of banks, marriages or systems. Only when the collapse occurs does it mean that the long period of minor conflict was the prologue of the disaster. The end of the process will not be the independence of Catalonia, but the collapse of Spanish democracy (it is no longer possible that it is traumatic).
Two factors prevent many people from making a pessimistic reading of what is happening. On the one hand, the culture of the happy end, dominant in the West, makes stories with a negative ending unbearable. And on the other hand, the lack of tragic experience of the current generations. For the vast majority of us, the Civil War was a film of good and bad; a western. Except for the elders who suffered the war, no one can really imagine what that disaster meant. The pain that caused. The misfortunes and misfortunes. That explains the incendiary nonsense of the young Spanish leaders. Everyone plays to tighten the rope as if the rope were unbreakable. L'estaca de Lluís Llach is sung in Catalonia for revolutionary aesthetics, since nobody (nor, of course, the author of the song) imagines what a revolution really is: it passes like a truck over all the generations that participates in it; and crushes them.
With a senseless joy many Catalans want to turn the eve of Christmas (before were days of truce) into a new chapter of revolutionary aestheticism. A rupturism as useless as egocentric. A rupturism of wounded pride that will sow more discomfort; that will objectively harm imprisoned leaders; that will give arguments to the judicial tremendismo against the independence movement; that can destroy the only and precarious path of dialogue; that will only serve to hide the objective setback of unilateralism (it has been defeated for more than a year, without a north, but the curtain of tears for the prisoners disguises it).
Humiliate Sanchez, what a great victory!
Consider a provocation that your Government meets in Barcelona: what a way to give reason to those who describe Catalanism as a delirium victim!
To facilitate the way to the tripartite of incendiary rights, what a formidable strategy!
Banalize the right to protest at a crucial moment in the conflict, when new and very strong actors enter the scene: what a waste of the opportunities offered by democracy!
"Evil is never practiced as thoroughly and as joyfully as when it is exercised as an obligation of conscience" (Pascal, Thoughts).
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