The award for video of the week went to the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib, who has risen to the top of the charts with her glamorous staging to remind us of what evil we must die of. The tone of Vogue The slogan they've used to talk to us about protection in the event of a war breaking out in Europe is so outrageous that the video can only have been the work of someone with an empathy deficit or a marketing genius, because it's managed to get us to still be talking about it. The fact is that everyone has internalized that the world has changed for us. Not for Greenlanders, Ukrainians, Canadians, German car manufacturers, or Latin American immigrants in the United States, no. For you and me, who were thinking about what we'll do for Easter.
The world has changed, they say. Interesting. And who has decided this change? Or is it the result of a cosmic lottery? Is it the sum of a set of forces of independent origin operating in opposite directions and producing an unexpected result toward war, or here, as Josep Lluís Núñez would say, does the number 36 always come up? In other words, do the banks always win here—that is, the banks, arms manufacturers, technology companies, oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, and other normally favored sectors?
"The world has changed", "things as they are", "let's be realistic", "that's what there is" or "we have to catch up with the reality principle", and everyone buys the kit survival, and perhaps soon military training. It took us a long time (and two world wars) to get here, and now we're back to being cannon fodder. And yet 99.9% of the people are against it.
