The union and the strength

Together is in fashion. Not the party, but the thing. Together we are stronger. Not the party, but the alliances. In general, not the Catalan one. We have just seen this with the will to broaden the Canadian-European base and we have recently seen it with the common front that Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have decided to form to pressure Westminster. Here, the attempts made to pressure the Spanish government and unify the heterogeneous pro-independence bloc turned out mediocrely. I am an optimist of adjectives. But it is also true that if everyone had gone their own way, the 'gigaphoto' would not have been a dream come true (even though it was later seen that everyone was going their own way and that the 'gigaphoto' was not all that). "The people united will never be defeated", the Chileans shouted in the seventies. Literally, we can say that the phrase is not true. Especially because of the “jamás”. It was proven in Chile and it has been proven many other times. But everything depends on what we understand by victory. The October First referendum (the word referendum, by the way, has suspiciously gone out of fashion) was the victory of a united people and, at the same time, it was the beginning of the defeat of the independence movement. One can think that the people were defeated or, on the contrary, that together we achieved an unthinkable milestone. What we think will depend a little bit on the day. Like knee pain.

The Canadian prime minister, who is already becoming more famous than the previous Canadian prime minister and is now the partner of a singer even more famous than both prime ministers combined, gives the impression that he is specializing in giving speeches at international forums that call for creating a strong bloc capable of responding to Trump and other disasters that affect the world. Or this part of the world. Because the world, unless it is being invaded, always seems smaller than it is. Canada, which does not want to annex itself to the US as Trump proposes, does want to annex itself to Europe, and for that reason, a part of the country is francophone, even though the French they speak cannot be understood even when they say “bonjour”. "A tree will fall in the middle of this storm; a forest, no,” said the Canadian prime minister. The image is very appropriate considering the current climate. Although perhaps it is not the time to make metaphors with trees or forests coming from a summer where we could almost smell the Canadian fires from here. But taking into account that in politics, metaphors are rarely accurate, the idea is not bad in itself. Although, what can I say about Ursula von der Leyen's Europe. But at least Canadian cinema is more European than Torrente.

Now, if I must tell the truth, and the truth never goes out of style, rather than the repeated idea of together and strong, I prefer our the more we are, the more we will laugh. Because if AI is going to kill us all soon, I agree that it should catch us in a group, but laughing. Because we are stronger when we have the capacity to laugh. And if it has to be so hot, united but not stuck together. Let the air circulate. We already sweat enough going through the world alone.