The tragedy experienced by Morocco this weekend has served to surface a masked, digital and mainly Cayetano racism that has caused consternation even in ideological territories that have openly flirted with it in recent years, but which assume that, in the face of devastation like life in the neighboring country, urbanity demands a solidarity and a mourning that is not at least apparent. After all, decorum is not a function of sincerity but of civilization.
The concern over the possibility of a return of the racist hordes of the 18th century must be real, but it is worth remembering that the filter of the mechanical interface must be applied. The long decade that important sectors of the reactionary right have been haranguing their subjects with the message that democracy has forced them to mitigate their true postulates and that it is appropriate to rectify those "complexes", that is to say to replace respect with venting, civilization with bar , has taken effect. Now, infamous reactions like the one seen before the earthquake in Morocco, unthinkable a few years ago, when democratic conservatives still had arguments for political competition and had control over their parties, are common.
But before tackling the problem it is necessary to give it its correct dimension by applying the aforementioned filter of the interface. We can also call it the impunity of the masked, although the signer prefers the barking of the bar. All those rude and infamous judgments are made from the other side of a screen. We've often talked here about the abundant viral videos of dogs barking like they're going to devour each other from opposite sides of a fence or gate, and then suddenly quieting down and wagging their tails if they discover the boundary is off. open or has a clear passage that would allow them to turn their growls into bites. The fence is the screen, a parapet that allows you to express yourself with a primitive and uncivilized rawness, and it does not correspond to the behavior we would have if there was no apparatus. And dry digital behavior is not more sincere than politeness in the flesh, just as excessive barking is not truer than tail wagging.
You didn't have to wait for the digital agora to hear about that tribal regression. Most of us are more irritable and less friendly when dealing with our fellow man from behind the wheel. We would give way at a door to the same human we hurry to avoid giving way at a roundabout. And if our behavior is modeled after that of other higher mammals, it means that it does not, no matter how much effort we place on it, originate in civilization or culture, but in the remote night of time, when we communicated with grunts and cockroaches Here is a unique paradox: the machine makes us primitive, our chin and the ciliary arch advance and our eyes and intelligence sink.
