There is a good reason why the goalkeeper of a football team dresses differently from his teammates: to prevent a player looking for someone to pass the ball to in the heat of the game, getting confused and shooting at his own goal. And what’s even better is that they do it in the most striking way by dressing differently: the challenge for the opponent’s brain to maintain attention in one corner of the goal while on the move – that is, while standing – with the ball in hand. bouncing object in fluorescent clothing right in front of us.
An example of this is a study that my most frequent readers (all tall and handsome, notice?) have read to me before: a test conducted by Simons & Chabris in 1999 in which participants were shown a recording of a group of people playing a game. Basketball. They’re asked to count how many times they pass the ball, and when they focus on tracking the orange ball, they don’t see a gorilla literally running through the middle of them all.
Another example of blindness caused by selective attention is: Iker Casillas Dressed in yellow, we are experiencing this these days at rallies organized by the right wing and agitators eager to stir up the hornet’s nest. “Mobilization against the coup,” Abascal asked. “Amnesty is illegal and undemocratic”Feijoo warned. Former president Aznar accused acting president Pedro Sánchez of a “danger to Spanish constitutional democracy” and called for action: “You can do many things except one: restrain yourself. In this case, obstruction has no place.” The main target of these appeals was the socialist headquarters, especially the Ferraz headquarters in Madrid, but was the threat of attack lacking because it was already overheated? Or at least agitate in Congress. Among the thousands of participants there were, of course, many with laudable motivations; Others are completely deceived. But that doesn’t matter, because in the end our and the world’s attention turns to those who threw flares, threw paving stones, burned containers and left a trail of dozens of injured people, mostly police officers. And they don’t seem to be stopping.
There are many arguments to oppose the budget from peace and seriousness amnesty law. And many who will defend him. But what does not allow any discussion is that, if it eventually continues, far from representing a coup or the end of democracy, it will be the result of its healthy functioning, that is, the functioning of majorities and consensus among parties. Representatives of the people’s will were expressed at the ballot box. This is how the gang starts Spanish Constitution of 1978 already in the Preface:
“Wishing to use its sovereignty to establish justice, freedom and security and to promote the well-being of all its members, the Spanish Nation declares the following will: “Just economic and social order within the framework of the Constitution and the laws.” Consolidate a rule of law that ensures the rule of law as an expression of the will of the people.” But that doesn’t matter to those making threats to the Government and the King of Spain, launching racist and homophobic outbursts and raising their arms adorned with some sort of medley of merchandise. Franco, Hitler and Captain AmericaOf course, they boast that amnesty is more than just an excuse to spread hatred and violence.
We cannot allow moving baboons to block our view of the gorilla without trivializing the danger represented by the radical and violent, striking as they may be. In the background, provoking people with doomsday announcements about illegal, illegitimate, unconstitutional and anti-democratic coups is a situation in which everything is valuable except obstruction. In the absence of legitimate arguments to rule, gorillas seek alternative legitimations to at least command. Behind the goal. Under cover.
And for those nostalgic for other times, I understand. Perhaps not the year 2012, when the PP administration approved a tax amnesty benefiting millionaires who defrauded the public coffers, and the Constitutional Court annulled it in 2017, finding it unconstitutional and arguing that the Constitution prohibits the use of decree laws. Approving measures that significantly affect enshrined duties and characterizing such an amnesty as “a renunciation of the State’s obligation to make effective the duty of everyone to contribute to the support of public expenditure” and legitimizing it as a valid option “to the support of the state’s public expenditure”. Those who, in an unsupportive manner, fail to fulfill their duty to pay taxes to the extent of their economic capacity.” No. I’m much more modest about nostalgia. For example, I miss the times when they called the doctor and gave me an appointment for the afternoon. Or when you can pay rent or mortgage with a salary. Let’s see if we end with amnesty or non-pardon and move on to that topic.