There are hotels where children are not allowed and restaurants where you are not allowed to eat alone. These are some of the issues we’re accounting for this summer. Small structures of history, it seems. Not long ago, I don’t know if I explained it here, I asked a bartender to turn the music down because you couldn’t speak, and he replied very seriously:
That’s the concept.
I didn’t quite understand if the concept was the presence of loud music or its usefulness in preventing people from chatting. It’s dangerous for people to talk because sometimes they understand each other and it ends with understanding the polarization we live so comfortably with. In any case, it is useless to struggle with the concept, because the concept is the basic unit of knowledge, it belongs to the marrow of matter, be it existence or non-existence. That’s it, take it or leave it. If you want to dine in a restaurant that you are not allowed to enter alone, take the kid who has been kicked out of the adults-only hotel with you. Or take the dog, maybe with the dog they will offer you a table sooner than a child. You have to constantly put solutions here and there. We live in survival mode.
More explanation: This year, many vacationers are drowning in swimming pools, in the sea, wherever they bathe, not counting the immigrants who sank in the Mediterranean and no longer harm us as we pay for them. Interestingly, this plague coincides with the fashion of freediving, a rare sport that mostly consists of not breathing underwater. It’s hard to understand, but that’s the concept. The Pope tried to downplay the issue of pedophilia in the Church by alluding to domestic violence. Bergoglio knows. Meanwhile, upon their return from Portugal, some young Catholics who had arrived on the plane listening to His Holiness chanted Cara al sol, chanting the battle cry of Vox and PP: “Vote for you, Txapote.” Far from humanizing them, spiritual retreat strengthened their anti-Christian sentiments. It turns out what is called internalizing the concept. The Txapote concept plunged Feijóo into political ruin (on the other hand, economically, he is doing very well with three or four salaries and total free housing). September has been a concept for over a month now, and it’s just around the corner. Let’s see what it will bring us.