The 18th century, gathered for dinner

It is impossible to resist that wonderful tweet with which @TirodeGraciah commented on the invitation of the priest of the paranormal, Íker Jiménez, to the youtuber Roma Gallardo to explain live, on his television program, about the suspicion that he was going to launch a Law fraud requesting a sex change to denounce the cat flaps of the trans law: "Eighteen years on the air and a ghost finally appears on the program.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
19 March 2023 Sunday 16:42
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The 18th century, gathered for dinner

It is impossible to resist that wonderful tweet with which @TirodeGraciah commented on the invitation of the priest of the paranormal, Íker Jiménez, to the youtuber Roma Gallardo to explain live, on his television program, about the suspicion that he was going to launch a Law fraud requesting a sex change to denounce the cat flaps of the trans law: "Eighteen years on the air and a ghost finally appears on the program."

It is pure Twitter art, a spherical, succinct and devastating disqualification disguised as flattery. When Twitter disappears due to the incomparable management of Elon Musk, we will not miss the videos or the threads, which will appear in any other format. We will miss this nonchalance and exquisite precision.

The problem with putting Gallardo together with Jiménez, like sitting Mario Vaquerizo and Isabel Díaz Ayuso together, is that one can feel the temptation –difficult to mitigate– that the world is ordered, that it is the most natural thing for those who want pity to live together. of death with those who distrust the science of vaccines, assure that there is a thing called a “plandemic”, believe that there are haunted houses, use the ouija, search for underground water holding two sticks in their hands, chase UFOs on autumn nights and they are convinced that there are some men in black who throw down the ravines the shepherds who have had biblical contact with the aliens.

And furthermore, they also believe that it is a shame that the Animal Welfare law allows –not– carnal intercourse between species but not with gray bulging-eyed extraterrestrials, who already want to get fussy and speciesist with sex.

When Gallardo appears trying to ridicule the rights of collectives that have historically been persecuted, mistreated and obliterated, such as the trans collective, it is tempting to believe that all backwardness, superstition and pre-Enlightenment thought coexist in an intellectual coven based on suspicion and demagogy, giving reason to each other and proclaiming themselves champions of an evidence that "power" or "the system" strives to hide to prevent everything from exploding when humanity knows "the truth".

The eighteenth century does not meet for dinner. That is why it is appropriate to call for calm. Although it may not seem like it, the world is not simple or orderly, and the enemies of rationalism are not enemies all day, nor are they all gangs. As Scott Adams said, we are all idiots. It only changes how long a day.