Introduction
Within the Matrix, a phenomenon known as déjà vu is an anomaly that reveals a failure in the system. The feeling that something is not right is productive: it makes you take the red pill, escape the world of lies and join the resistance. But no one explains what happens when you have a feeling of déjà vu after escaping the Matrix. We talk about “singular financing” because it is the only expression they have found that does not seem to have been used since 2012, now that the country is again debating fiscal balances, principle of ordinariness and “having the key to the box”. Caught between the déjà vu of a new pseudo-federal attempt and a new attempt to carry out a Process, the stone that would have to be rolled up the mountain weighs a ton. The fact that Artur Mas is promoting the creation of a unitary list is like waking up from a nightmare within another nightmare that we thought only happened in the movies. It is simply out of shame that no one dares to utter the words “third way”.
How to avoid repetition
How to escape repetition is a familiar theme in the philosophy of history. Hegel saw this as a sign of progress: he claimed that the great events and characters of history repeat themselves twice because there is a certain meaning beyond the chaos and certain principles work to resolve the contradictions inherited from the past. Even if there is no material progress, the repetitions would never be quite identical if there is an increase in self-cognition. Instead, Marx took a more bitter view of it, with the famous idea that history repeats itself, yes, but first as tragedy and then as farce. For Marx, the sense of comedy that bad second parts provoke is wise because it fights against the trap of progress: to move forward, history needs real revolutions, otherwise everything can go backwards.
Maintain freshness in writing
In all cases, the goal is to draw the lessons for our cause and hope that the charade is played out by others. In the pro-independence camp, the idea is that the processist parties and ideas must fall completely so that the much-desired regeneration can finally take place. As long as names like Artur Mas, Oriol Junqueras, Carles Puigdemont and Marta Rovira are still the protagonists of the conversation, it means that we still haven’t stopped voting for them enough. In the processist camp, the hope is that the PSC will once again reveal its status as a party of Spanish obedience, because when it comes to autonomy, center-left post-Pujolism or center-right post-Pujolism will always be better In the PSC there is no country project, but the trust in the ridicule of others is justified and Illa knows how to activate the Catholic instincts of the country to establish a long period of contrition for independenceist excesses.
conclusion
In all cases, what has disappeared is the unforgettable momentum of Quim Torra. Whatever the faction, there is a sense that history is now in a slow phase of a bain-marie, and the heat of the process has neutralized the possibility of boiling over for a while. It is normal that the same thing that is happening to independence is happening to the left: not even with the blatant and obvious neoliberalism of the PSC of Illa and Collboni, no one is able to do anything other than wait. If we think about the analyzes of the 15M and the Process, everyone said that what lit the fuse was the economic crisis. The problem with the self-fulfilling prophecy of revolutionary theories is that, in the interim that you never know how long it will last, you can end up forgetting the lessons of what you swore you wouldn’t let happen again. In principle, a socialist president hinting that he will “support” and Artur Mas asking for a unitary list should be egregious enough to keep the memory very fresh. Living in permanent déjà vu can be very tiring, but keeping the rejection of banal repetition alive will be the best weapon to combat it when it becomes important again.