A Japanese food company has announced that it is removing the color from the packaging of its products due to a shortage of the material used for ink in But because they say that a picture is worth a thousand words, it is very suggestive where black and white can lead us. Because this combination can be either very elegant or very mothballed, with that included smell of this chemical product that in the colorful world is already practically out of use. So let's forget the elegance of black and white and focus on that black and white that smells of a dingy past that refuses to leave. A good example is Florentino's press conference and the fact of addressing a journalist as "little girl
", with that naturalness of when you live in a world where power is associated with a machismo that, fortunately, is increasingly questioned. A man in black and white who clings to a chair and to ways that never quite leave because the mothballed always are reborn, even if the streets find them in color. Or perhaps precisely because of that. Of course, anything coming from a football club president is as surprising as a delay on Cercanías.
It is also very black and white, the operation of the Mossos infiltrating teachers' assemblies and the unconvincing explanations of councilor Parlon and Trapero, the police chief. "I want to apologize to the educational union for this feeling of distrust," Parlon said in her appearance. Woman, I would say that distrust in this case is not a feeling. It is very serious what we see in the legitimate protests of teachers and in how a very serious problem like the one facing the world of education is being dealt with. To begin with, the Mossos should have been out of this equation days ago. In fact, they should never have entered it. So that black and white does not end up imposing itself. Or gray, which does much more for the memory of a country like ours. A country, incidentally, where espionage and infiltration have a long history and have been unjustified for a long time. Therefore, we do not start from feelingsbut fromvery concrete facts, in which fundamental rights are attacked with total impunity.
In Japan there is a law that requires cookies to be exactly as shown on the package they contain. That what you see on the outside is what you find inside. Now the cookies will not be black and white even if the packaging is. That is why they are already alerting about the change, so that there are no surprises. But in the world we have been warning for many years that black and white is imposing itself without complexes and that the loss of color will not be solved by buying more ink.
