Pursued by an interview about hypnosis and breasts

It is true that we are masters of our silence and slaves of our words. The leader of the British Green Party, Zack Polanski, gave an interview 13 years ago to the tabloidThe Sunclaiming that hypnosis could achieve breast augmentation without going through surgery. I suppose it is obvious that the only volumetric increase that can be achieved by this method is that of the wallet of the unscrupulous trafficker of others' complexes. Polanski has apologized and has deployed a panoply of excuses, such as making people believe that he was only offering more confidence in their own physique, and assures that the very next day he gave another interview, with the BBC, to make it clear that he did not have the power to inflate breasts with the power of suggestion. Unfortunately, this conversation has not appeared in any archive, but another one has been located, six days later, in which he referred to “a successful project” and continued to fuel the idea that to compete with Sabrina Salerno all that was needed was to convince the brain to stimulate the growth of mammary tissue.

Beyond the quaintness, the news tells us how in the digital age a misstep can accompany us for the rest of our lives. No matter how much Polanski has retracted, it is natural to have doubts about leaving the helm of the nation in the hands of someone capable of deceiving in this way, even if he did so, as he says, driven by the need to manage four jobs at once. Since the law of forgetting does not affect people of public relevance, it is important to limit adolescents' access to networks: they can generate an undesirable trace when they are not yet masters of all their actions. Although, precisely in this world of alternative facts and "ready-to-wear" truths, sellers of miracles –even if they are of modest scope and confined to the pectoral perimeter– are excellent candidates for contemporary politics.