The survey that says that in Catalonia, young men are the least in favour of the democratic system (twenty points less than the rest of the groups) and that there is 16% who prefer an authoritarian system to democracy has come to mind. The children's song about the elephant came to mind: "So, what do you think?" With the networks, traditional media have lost the monopoly on the creation of public opinion, but schools, parents and other traditional educational sources have lost the oligopoly of education. The substitution is being fast, deep and sufficiently effective to have loosened all the snails of the architecture of affective bonding of what we call society, with its spaces of coexistence, and is advancing towards the creation ofrivierasOn the rubble where citizens are becoming Montoyas living segregated and running around like chickens with no where to go from the rain of algorithms that falls incessantly. If the authoritarian drive of the Trump-Musk couple is triumphant, President Macron, speaking on CNN about Gaza and respect for human rights, said, like someone who confesses a failure: "Sometimes, in today's world, you feel old-fashioned when you talk about having principles."
However, children rejecting the values of their parents is a generational classic. Those of us who were born during a dictatorship cannot wait for young people to understand, as we do, the disgusting experience of living under an authoritarian system that, among other things, wants to destroy your national identity. But if we really believe that democracy is better and that human rights are an absolute value, then we are obliged to be active defenders. Being afraid is understandable. Being lazy to educate is unacceptable.
