The world to come

Fake newsFake news: throughout history, whether due to ignorance or manipulation, two recurring attributes among humans. In fact, power systems have often been built on fake news transformed into undeniable truths, which have generated various mechanisms of submission and domination. The entry into the world of digital communication, with its immense capacity for propagation, has led us to a moment in which the use of... fake news It's so overwhelming that it operates like a kind of parallel reality, leading to great confusion. To the point that those who have made it their way of being in the world risk being caught in the contradiction, which is what's happening to Trump with his back-and-forth statements, which are increasingly exposing him. So much so that sectors of the Republican Party that until now had lived in his shadow are asking him to end the war because they realize that the presidential fabrications are rapidly losing credibility.

The all-powerful president has become trapped in the vicious cycle of "anything goes if I say so, even if it's a lie." In twenty-four hours, he said that "the end of the war is near," adding that this end "will only come after an unconditional surrender," which the Iranians don't seem to have planned imminently, and with the understanding that "the bombings will cease when the president wants them to," and for the moment, they continue. And to round off the narrative, he says that "the time has come to declare victory," but he doesn't. It all adds up to the commander-in-chief's display, which has no other substance than the surrounding rhetoric that makes it seem strong. And despite the Trumpian obedience exercises of the ineffable Von der Leyen, in Europe, Pedro Sánchez is no longer a rare exception: he embodies the idea that enough is enough of this egocentric irresponsibility that has become a vicious cycle.

Trump's vacillations confirm his limitations. His feats They open up high-risk abysses. His true colors are starting to show, and it's becoming clear that not everything depends on him. Elections are looming that could highlight the risk of running from reality: either parents act in time, or the whole spectacle collapses under its own weight. The US and the world are currently caught in this contradiction: the devastating logic of the fake news Will it prevail irrevocably? Or is there still a chance to recover a sense of reality? At a time when democracy has been waning for some time, the feeling is growing that it is definitively in danger. And the question is: are economic powers and digital communication systems incompatible with regimes of freedom like those of Western democracies? In other words: is Trump a momentary delusion or is he the world to come?