If The Simpsons predicts the future, Mafalda is the Enigma Machine of the present, there is no situation that is not deciphered in their strips. In one you see Libertad, representative of the true left, created by Quino when her protagonist got infected by television and the Beatles, and who knows if pedicure, Susanita – Ayn Rand’s inked verb – enjoys an ice cream cone . “You have to think about the social revolution, not about ice cream, about reality, not about waffles,” he accuses of his greedy indifference. In the last vignette, Libertad raises a bill in front of the ice cream vendor and hesitantly asks for “an escapism of vanilla and pistachios.”
Like an escapism in troubled times, Shakira’s lyrical barrage was received, like her footnotes, transformed into a show as unedifying as it was compelling. It was raining, it was pouring, we had been fascinated by Tamara’s metaverse and the Preysler multiverse with its ghost brides and fictional breakups for weeks. Some broadcast messages about bizarre rap and others about Flaubert.
There are those who cross themselves when supposedly reputable media touch on matters of the heart, and those who croak out of feigned indifference, “Am I the only person in the world who doesn’t care?”. Of course not; in Zaporizhia or in the Xinjiang re-education camps this is hardly a problem, although it would be wonderful if this gossip had the same calming effect as the soap opera Cassandra, able to momentarily silence the war in the Balkans .
No one should feel guilty for paying attention, there is no more fascinating spectacle than to watch the ease with which some recover their hearts and monetize pain while others in the same situation only gain 20 pounds of belly fat and a moderate weight Alcohol addiction lorazepam. Another perk of sweet media escapism is that they don’t make you fat.
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