Systemic error
The idea of the blackout, of the total blackout, is frequently used in literature and film. The loss or interruption of the power supply is the 20th-century version, secularized and passed down through the imagination of societies born of the Industrial Revolution, of the idea of night on Earth, more typical of book religions. It is an eschatological image: we will know that we are at the end of everything because total darkness will spread over the Earth. At the time of Christ's death, the sky turned black. Also at Noah's Flood, etc. The end of the world, of course, is usually in reality the metaphor for a warning, or a diagnosis. Mary Wollstonecraft, or Mary Shelley (the author of Frankenstein), has a novel titled The last man in which she imagines, from the 19th century in which she lived, a 21st century in which Western society has been ravaged by a terrible plague, and where survivors must live in the dark. Cinema, which is an electric art, has imagined a world without electricity in countless dystopian, action, and science fiction films. In the subgenre of cyberattacks, let me mention the immeasurable Die Hard 4 (here, Die Hard 4), in which Bruce Willis slaps his way out of total chaos caused by a gang of party-loving digital terrorists.
With the internet and communications cutting in and out, it was even more difficult to try to put some mental order into the fragmented and confusing information that was arriving. Personally, I had to do it from Mallorca, one of the few places where the power supply wasn't interrupted (island conditions aren't always bad), but where, in the afternoon, communications went down: no phone or internet. While there is still no clear idea about the cause of the blackout, some authoritative sources speak of a systemic error in the Red Eléctrica network. The adjective systemic It contains political and institutional resonances, but if we list them we will still be stuck in speculation and conjecture.
And there's no need to even talk about speculation and conjecture, because from the first second they have run wild. chemtrails And the birds, which are actually surveillance cameras, were immediately activated, and everything was filled with theories linking the blackout to the death of Francis, to the announcement of the conclave to announce the next pontiff, to the Koldo case, or to Begoña Gómez. Those who are experts in pandemics, drought, and the DANA are now suddenly all electrical engineers. There is always, after all, the voluntary blackout, like the one Boris Vian tells us about. In a story of his entitled The fog, all of Paris, down to the last corner, is invaded by a fog so thick that it makes it impossible for anyone to see anything.
