You knew you'd come back from a walk and another disaster would be waiting for you on your phone in the form of a fire or a massacre. After dinner, a young woman told you she felt like she was playing the Hunger Games. A very old person commented that young people might be able to change things in the future, but that it saddened her to see that the aspirations of her youth—human rights, democracy, and social justice—seem to no longer have any value.
How can you expect dignity and respect not to lose their value, if life itself has lost them? And since you can no longer kill in secret, now you kill in plain sight and during the day. The Israeli government orders the murder of journalists, in a curious contrast: the most exchanged profession in the world continues to annoy those in power. They don't want them to form their own opinions; they want to keep their information so they feel small and under surveillance and think there's nothing they can do. Or so that, if they dare to contradict them, they'll fear the consequences. For now, they've already succeeded in getting a segment of the impoverished population to shout "Long live the chains!"
Europe has limited itself to issuing statements of rejection while militarizing, following the path indicated by the United States, where the president has already brought troops into the capital and jokes about the fact that if the country went to war, he could skip the elections.
Catalanophobia appears in an ice cream parlor in Gràcia, and the Catalan government's only response is that it will distance itself from situations that use the language as an element of confrontation. For those who are screwed with Catalan in Catalonia, doesn't the Catalan government have a single word of condemnation? Do we turn the other cheek? What's the strategy? What's the point of creating the Ministry of Language Policy? September begins with unrest.
