As a 21st-century apocalyptic experience, we were missing this general blackout. And we're already counting. They're starting to become outdated. No matter how historic the event was. And above all because, aside from the more or less amusing anecdotes that have been told everywhere and the empathy that Renfe users always generate, any thought developed in good faith about living disconnected as if "for nothing," or because just before the blackout I read that by 2024 global spending on weapons skyrocketed (I agree, the verb here sounds ridiculous) and has already reached 2.7 trillion dollars. A lot of money on weapons is for using it, unlike when you pay for the gym. But it's clear that only a missile falling on us or a long-term blackout can be capable of tearing us away from a screen, among other reasons because there are already too many gestures in our daily lives. 2. Stay tunedThe reality, in its slap-in-the-face version, is that as soon as we could, we connected to everything that had been kept disconnected due to mysterious circumstances. "We'll never know the truth," say those who are always suspicious of everything. But of course, it's absurd for a government to ask that we not speculate about the causes when it leaves an eternal silence for speculation about everything and more, and then ends up saying that they themselves haven't ruled out any hypothesis. And in the end, we'll have to believe that mobile alerts are only useful for conducting drills. It's obvious we're not ready for an emergency, but at least we have missiles. And if you watch the commuter train, you won't notice any difference. But as for the role of governments that decide that until they have precise information, there's no need to tell the population anything, it's a pain to talk about it. It's much better to enjoy spring. Because spring has burst forth like we haven't seen in a long time. This is a spectacle, and not the usual misery of shirked responsibilities. Green has taken over our landscape with dazzling elegance. Many flowers we know and whose names we don't know illuminate the mysteries of dark days. It's a luxury that the seasons still overflow, and it's a torment to think they may soon leave us. We'll see if the enigmas surrounding energy phenomena are clarified and how many rebounds will be blamed for everyone's shaking it off, but we see, here and now, how a natural setting that connects us to what we are beyond what we do is removed.
The blackout has been that unusual and punctual event that occurs between one soccer game and another; between banks being bought and countries being sold; between potatoes vanishing and perpetual union leaders. The spring rains come and go while sales of solar panels, generators, flashlights, and more increase. transistors. Because the worst forecast in the world, when everything was still analog, was the one that said "Video killed the radio star".
