This summer will be remembered for the extreme heat, the fires, and the massacres. But each of us will have our own particular summer, transformed into a refuge for memory. More or less everyone in our first world is now returning to routine. It's noticeable in the streets. We're already connected. Disconnecting, which we did much more when summers were analog, is practically impossible in digital times. Some people tune out the news because it's bad and it affects them. In summer and all year round. Others do it because it doesn't interest them. Everything is permissible. How can you not read books? says a woman who makes videos on social media And it's also news. Because there are those who don't want to know anything but want to know everything about those contemporary gurus who trap them in the social cobwebs. Neither are better at liking to read, nor others worse at spending the day watching TikTok videos. Among other reasons because being better or worse can't be summed up in a weekly article. And I'll leave it here because I prefer to flee, which rhymes with reading, from that topic like I do from the heat.

Considering that we are part of a sleeping society, it is gratifying to see how there are still people who mobilize for a cause and successfully torpedoes a top-level sporting competition like the Vuelta. Not all is lost. Using critical thinking, protesting, and demonstrating have become concepts vintage, because we have been reduced to what the system wants: to be instruments of consumption of products and ideas at its service. That's why we can sit in a crowded cove while we do scroll between a possible Barça signing, a discounted shirt, and a cadaverous child dying of hunger in the Gaza Strip. Unperturbed, we raised our gaze and asked the couple: "What would you rather eat? Fideuá or paella?" We have the capacity for indignation of a tender Jewish woman.

"It was obvious something was going to happen," says a Vuelta a España worker nervously. They've been told not to talk about the presence of the Israel Premier Tech team, owned by a personal friend of the Israeli president. The race was supposed to go ahead as if nothing had happened, but every day they're met with hundreds of protesters waiting for them. For weeks, the organizers had been worried about the announcements of demonstrations against the team's presence. And on Wednesday, during the team time trial on the roads of the Alt Empordà, it happened: security forces were unable to prevent a group of protesters from blocking the road just as the Israel Premier Tech team was about to pass, to protest the presence of a team with ties to the Israeli government right in the middle of the military campaign in Gaza.