The blackout has become the perfect pretext for the most gratuitous sensationalism on television. On Friday at noon, Ana Rosa's program, were interviewing a supposed survival expert. They had invited him to explain all the necessary elements in one kit basic emergency. The presenter gave him authority with a headline worthy of the most alarmist journalism: "José Luis, you've been preparing for the apocalypse since the 1990s.More than three decades culminated now in the display of his entire arsenal on Telecinco. The display of equipment was delirious. The table on the set was covered with all sorts of objects.It's a normal 'kit' for an area where you have basic supplies –said the man–. This is the backpack to leave home in a momentHe claimed that this was the minimum individual equipment for any person. As an anecdote, he noted that his two children and his dog had their own backpacks. José Luis, thirty-five years on the front line, spending his own money on equipment to climb Everest just to survive the city and machetes of all kinds), fuel elements (to light a fire in any circumstance), protective material (a tent, blanket, and sleeping bag, among others), storage utensils (such as a backpack and canteen), a range of ropes of different lengths and characteristics, and, above all, a medical bag to treat critically ill patients. All of this is a form of social alarmism that uses panic as a claim. Many of the audiences of these programs are people who under no circumstances can assume the preparation and use of these kits emergency radicals.
After explaining all his resources, the presenter asked him which of those tools he had used during the blackout.Nobody", he replied.
With the blackout, a series of curious characters are being interviewed. Military clothing with emblems and logos on the shirt and on the sleeves of the jacket in which axes, fists, dogs are represented... Also tattoos that seem to appeal to some. loses control of the messages of these symbols. The same thing happens with many cybersecurity experts, who do not even appear using their real name but all kinds of disturbing nicknames. openers that release to TikTok or Instagram. The problem is that, especially in private webs, a paramilitary aesthetic and theories are being normalized as a guarantee of survival that inoculates a social climate of fear that suits the extreme right very well.
