As the day approaches, the conversation monopolizes. An inescapable pressure exerts its influence on us like a gravitational center. We have been preparing for this for months, familiarizing ourselves with the process, producing speeches and opinions at the slightest provocation, normalizing the thousands of advertisements that show the names and faces of those who are willing to do anything to come to power. Finally, on Sunday we will have an outcome. Most are grateful for the coming relief, although worried or resigned to its meaning.
It seems simple: you go to the assigned place, mark your vote in a ticket and the country improves. You have the belief that you have fulfilled the obligations of a model citizen, a participant in change and well-being, willing to go out and defend his convictions. But it is enough to turn on the TV or enter social networks to gauge the real complexity of the matter: the opinions thrown in opposite directions, forecasts biased, paid surveys to comfort us against uncertainty. Someone will be right, but his voice is lost in the madness of the moment.
Reductionist-inclined minds speak of two options for the future: change or stay the same. Both, however, are equally illusory, since things, simply by the decree of the laws that govern the universe, can never remain the same, just as change, in the long run, only comes to reaffirm the very essence of things. . That doesn’t stop people from arguing passionately and getting drunk with the commotion, like someone facing a soccer final or the last coins in a poker game. Human beings formulate hypotheses to guard against the future, console themselves with the illusion of prediction, and feign familiarity in the face of the unexpected.
There is the certainty that something is going to happen. It is not just a sensation in the air or something suggested by an inner voice, but the mood of the masses synchronized with what is established by law and billions of pesos spent on bells. What more can be said? I am not Political analyst, but an artist. What I can do is put my imagination at the service of the moment, pass it through the movements that structure my mind and offer an aesthetic alternative to the percentages that monopolize the media’s attention.
Nobody asked me, but if I were presidentwould abolish the presidency. The very organization of our system has profound flaws that do not depend on who is in charge. They are in its very structure. Hierarchies hinder the circulation of ideas and the common good; They lend themselves to relationships of domination rather than solidarity. Furthermore, every centralized organization runs the danger that if its center is corrupted, no better future awaits the rest. And it’s easy to get corrupted in our society.
Then I would disappear. It would distribute power among each of the citizens, as in a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) operating through the blockchain or in a plant, which carries out photosynthesis between all the cells of each of its leaves. Thus the power and responsibility to build a better country would truly be in our hands.
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