Sometimes we look around us and discover the world of what is right, as a cover for our miseries and pettiness.
That we continue to plunder the third world to dispose of our latest generation iPhone ... well, nothing, to compensate we denounce someone who simply expresses his opinion freely.
That we consider that an activity is amoral, because nothing, we stigmatize and label those who carry it out.
That we dislike a perception other than our own. Well that's it, we label whoever expresses it as a façade and ditch issue.
Our stupidity must always prevail, that for that we have studied in a concerted school or we have grown up in the street, with the universal wisdom that this entails in both cases.
So when someone like Javier Marías he uses his pulpit (well deserved on the other hand), to be clear in his expositions, the dogs begin to bark. By this I do not mean that I tune in or not with the author, but hell, let's leave people alone. If we want to catch it with cigarette paper before any idea, then nothing, there we ...
This book when fools rule It is a manual for freethinkers, criticizable or adorable, but recognizable as that of an independently formed sesera, without easy arguments or repeated resources from the indoctrination of twitter or any other reading of the header.
Fools are very easily recognizable. They end up commanding or wanting to command based on a paradoxical behavior: disrespecting people and ideas and exalting their own on a pedestal where we should all worship the golden calf on duty.
Articles to know the notion of Marías about what has been happening in this country since 2015, in a new era that will be labeled in the future as the era of Idiots, like this, with capital letters.
Synopsis: For more than two decades, Javier Marías's articles have been essential for countless readers. When fools rule collects the articles published by the author in The weekly country between February 2015 and February 2017, and constitute a kind of political, cultural and social chronicle of the period. They address current affairs and raise issues for reflection far from conventionalisms and common places, and they provide us with the necessary tools to think freely.
You can now buy the book When Fools Send, an interesting compilation of articles by Javier Marías, here: