A reflection on incomprehensible topics
I honestly believe that there are subjects that are better not to talk about in order not to give them the importance and significance they do not have, but the fact is so startling, so grotesque, that I don’t know how to stay silent.
Human stupidity and its magnitude
The extent of human stupidity is difficult to measure, but we can get a rough idea from the unquestionable ability of men to invent and give volume to the most colossal nonsense.
There are those who believe that the earth is flat, those who every weekend make sightings of UFOs, those who insist on recording psychophonies in haunted houses, those who continue to promote conspiracy theories to prove that ETA is to blame for the ’11-M, those who explore the Himalayas in search of the abominable snowman, those who argue that the Egyptian pyramids are the fruit of idle extraterrestrial civilizations…
And, at the top of the species of capdafaves, those who believe in the existence of the whale language and support it with ridiculous arguments, an anarchic spelling that they themselves do not care about and, in short, without philological or literary knowledge suitable (a good simile would be a schoolboy who wants to talk about brain tumor surgery).
And that, moreover, they have their acolytes and followers because ignorance is a bottomless pit.
The Spanish Crown and its lack of judgement
Now, what seems carnivalesque and surreal to me is that the Spanish Crown gives a letter of normality to superstitions. That he grants the title of royal to a bunch of undocumented people shows, above all, ineptitude.
As if to call the factories that release toxic waste benefactors of the environment, or provide the status of eminent geographers to the earth-planners.
But in addition to stupidity, doses of insensitivity and bad faith. Which the Bourbons, one after the other, have spilled into the Balkans. And Felipe VI, still following tradition and faithful to his lineage, demonstrates, with measures like this, that he knows how to give food to the thirsty and drink to the hungry.
A final reflection
The fact reminds me that Ramón M. Del Valle-Inclán, the inventor of the sperpent, sent a copy of Farsa y licencia de la reina castiza, about Isabel II, to King Alfonso XIII with the following dedication: “To H. M. the King D. Alfonso XIII. Señor: I have the honor of sending you this book, stylization of the reign of your grandmother Doña Isabel II, and I hope that yours will not suggest the same stylization to the poets of the future.”
Alfonso XIII could not help it. As it seems that Felipe VI will not avoid it either. Now all he needs to do is grant the title of king to the group of lizard catchers.