One of the neoliberal legacies is to leave in private hands what the State has the obligation to assume.
For its defenders, Culture is something that occurs in a rather murky area of reality and is seen as a weirdo that only “is a burden on the economy.”
Unfortunately, the cultural actors -anesthetized by the zambumbia of survival with the cost of living and small gifts, those minimal gestures of condescension from the upper echelons- do not hit anything.
Could it be that yes, that the battle was definitely lost?
The empire of mediocrity, -read banality, frivolity, rude and dirty hedonism, which has been crowned these days-, is so decadent that probably never before were we enveloped in this cloud of smoke where bad letters are seen as something normal; where drugs are not only consumed, but they are sung about; where the reification of women is not only sung about, but admired; that where the praises of violence are not only sung and admired, but also shown.
How did we get here? Well, it wasn’t a matter of two days or two years. It has been a matter of many years of cumulative educational and cultural backwardness; It has been thanks to the political stubbornness of looking elsewhere. It has been thanks to electing leaders who have master’s degrees in the shenanigans of politics and doctorates in politicking. But they have no culture. That if they had at least read the Greek classics, which spoke through metaphors, they could have signs of what could happen.
When talking about the 2030 Goals for sustainable development -those that are no longer mentioned-, they also wanted to avoid this, which is part of a whole.
Those mothers who justified taking their children to see Bad Bunny, “because it is inevitable and that it is better hand in hand with them”, can also take them to the drug points, so that they can experiment.
We are in postculture. Further there are only Hades and the underworld. Long live mediocrity!
