Religious experiences

Iker Jiménez begins his weekly Cuarto Milenio (Cuatro) sermon with Pink Floyd music in the background, which Jesús Quintero elevated to a nocturnal generational balm. Like a good preacher, Jiménez knows how to create the necessary expectation to keep his parishioners' attention. He indulges in a discourse that tends toward digression and the multiplication of hypotheses. Formally, he abuses a bombast reinforced by Ada Colau-like breathing, with more inhalations than exhalations. His sermon on prophecies also has a political dimension. Quite rightly, Jiménez asserts that prophecies have the foundational intention of frightening. Or that in every power structure there is always something—sectarian, dogmatic, idolatrous—religious.

Meanwhile, the leaders of the Catholic faith and its affiliated franchises are getting organized. They announce that the Sistine Chapel will close for a few days, not because of a death or liquidation, but because the Vatican must organize, as God commands, the succession conclave. On Cope, Javier González Ferrari echoes the outrage of those outraged because Vice Presidents Yolanda Díaz and Maria Jesús Montero took a selfie during the Pope's funeral. In reality, the gesture should be interpreted as a tribute to a Pope who was fed up with taking selfies, to the point of turning them into an advanced form of digital Catholic iconography.

The vice presidents' selfie should be interpreted as a tribute to the Pope.

The selfie is a universal tourist ritual. Yesterday, La Vanguardia published a news story with a headline worthy of December 28th: ​​“Water gun attack on passengers on a tourist bus.” The tourismophobic enthusiasts attacked bus passengers by throwing water at them, following the slogan “Let's put out the tourist fire.” They were detained and identified by the Mossos d'Esquadra (a euphemism used to say that, in general, nothing will happen to them). The officers discovered that some of the attacking activists were simply tourists, militants of this activist tourism that attempts to compete with the powerful narco-tourism that so defines Barcelona. Is it a contradiction that to combat tourism, you have to become tourism? Yes, so what? It won't be the first, nor the last.

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Aside from taking selfies and maintaining, sometimes with theatrical stubbornness, the leftist spirit of the coalition government, Yolanda Díaz also innovates in the field of organic engineering. Against the gerontocratic sclerosis inherited from the Soviet era, Díaz has announced that she will join the board of Sumar as a "permanent guest." It's a pop evolution of the cult of personality that characterizes the history of the left (and the right). All things considered, it's a condition reminiscent of the figure of the chaperones, who once accompanied the most sought-after women by ardent suitors to prevent any libidinous excesses, whether imposed or consensual.