Creative writing is in danger because of Donald Trump.

BarcelonaIn the state of Iowa (United States) there is a program called IWP (International Writing Program) that had significant federal support: peccadillo When compared to the businesses of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and all quantitiesNow the country's president has decided to cancel that aid, and the IWP will have to give in, or do very little.

The program served to welcome fellows from all over the world who are dedicated to writing, or who are literature teachers, and who will now be left in the dark. It's another of Trump's taunts, of whom it can be said without much margin of error that he has perhaps never read a book in his entire life. If you add to this measure the cutback—or the extinction—of the Fulbright scholarships—which in Barcelona were or are managed by CaixaBank, and thanks to which hundreds of Catalan students have been educated over the last fifty years—if you also add the elimination of support programs for immigrants and feminist groups, the aid programs for human rights activists, and the elimination of the programs for the promotion of women's rights, you'll be left in the dark. clerks from the world of administration, then the measures we are discussing – that of the IWP only seems less damaging in comparison with the others – result in a purge, so far without deaths, similar to those that, in other areas, a dictatorship has always carried out.

However, as far as the aforementioned institution is concerned, which has or had everything to do with literature and the cultural level of the United States itself, the measure conceals a blatant indifference toward an issue that the right wing around the world has always considered secondary in the running of a state: reading, writing, and training in the humanities.

The fact that eighty million Americans voted for this brainless creature—a brain empty of all but a dark corner used to make money—demonstrates how far America's already-depleted educational standards have sunk even further, like hammering a nail into the wood of soulless matter.

In a way, it's a measure consistent with an authoritarian policy, which hopes to sustain itself thanks to two things: the authority of those in power and the "voluntary servitude" (La Boétie), or ignorance, of the voters. It's difficult for a person who knows nothing about anything, is not interested in knowing anything, or in forming a sovereign opinion against the common opinion (the "networks") to distinguish surgically—or dialectically, or reasonedly—between a government program and a leader capable of dignifying a country and others.