Blood moon, tropical nights

Starting the week with a lunar eclipse can be the harbinger of imminent energy convulsions or a concatenation of, alas, historical days.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
18 May 2022 Wednesday 05:39
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Blood moon, tropical nights

Starting the week with a lunar eclipse can be the harbinger of imminent energy convulsions or a concatenation of, alas, historical days. At first sight the most inevitable element will be the heat and its tropical nights. But the current situation also provides more polluting content, such as the fact that, in a booklet format, more garbage emerges with the Villarejo denomination of origin. Or that the king of yesteryear may be reunited with the current king, although, in Catalunya Ràdio, Pilar Eyre predicted that this will not happen. Or that Ernest Maragall has to repeat seventy times that he has not said that Ada Colau and the commons facilitated a democratic manipulation disguised as a state operation to prevent Barcelona from having a pro-independence mayor.

The paranormal influence of the blood moon also covers the mobilizations against the Winter Games, which define the picturesque local idiosyncrasy: the energy and stridency of the detractors of the Games are much more noticeable than the enthusiasm and arguments of their supporters. . Discussing an unknown reality (and, for now, virtual) is too tempting not to spend time, emotions and neurons on it. Luckily, there are ways out of the chaos, both political and Olympic. The most powerful is the hangover from the Eurovision Song Contest (great success on TVE), which fosters heresies such as a TV3 program (Planta Baixa) breaking the taboo of corporate monoculture and speaking extensively of Chanel's success.

The pretext is the Catalan nature of the artist and the magnetism of a festival that excites controversy, especially useless ones. Gender polemics for those who, from carca reserve or quantum protofeminism, abhor the visibility of asses, thighs and explicit sensualities. Patriotic polemics for those who, with hermeneutic zeal, confuse costume creativity with anti-bullfighting puritanism.

Another massive phenomenon: the repentant eurovisionists. They publicly admit that they criticized Chanel during the (equally artificial) controversy of the Benidorm Fest. But they are not satisfied with giving themselves a retrospective leading role but rather, in the paroxysm of vanity, they want her forgiveness to be emphatically acclaimed and not considered as a narcissistic purulence.

Monday's eclipse culminates a few days of very high traffic on highways, which do not seem affected by gasoline and diesel prices. With regard to the kilometric retentions of the weekend, it is not easy to understand why where there were tolls that are no longer there, the collapses are aggravated. It must be a phenomenon similar to when a part of the body is amputated and the so-called "phantom limb sensation" prevails. In this case, the sensation of the ghost toll.


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