We no longer know who we are. Among the attention deficit, self-deception, wishful thinking, advertising, propaganda, populisms, influencers and other distortions of self-perception, the likelihood that we believe we are, as individuals and as societies, is something different from every day who we really are The problem is remedied, because there is someone who knows very well what we are looking for and who has the deference of sharing with us a part, even if minimal, of the precise knowledge that he has accumulated about us.

This someone is Google , and the way to have access to the science he has is in the use of some of the numerous tools that he makes available to the user. Starting with the simplest of all, which is activated when we do any search, to try to predict and anticipate, by simple statistical frequency, what interests us. Take for example the very revealing search "I'm looking for a ..." What the search engine suggests depends on the day, but the search made from Spain leads us, in several consecutive days, in the same direction: "I'm looking for a bargain". The bargain in question is changing: on summer dates it usually refers to places with a beach, especially in Levante. More revealing, however varied, is the search proposed as "I am looking for one ..." The results are also more stable, even testing on different days.

At the time of writing these lines, what most Spaniards look for, as amazing as it may seem, is "a cheap van" . The exegetes interpret it - do you want to run away? Does it cost in the price of conventional housing, that is, real estate? Then, and in order of frequency, "a song", "a girlfriend", "a house" or "a couple" is searched, and just after the mystery and poetry come: people who access Google Spain search a lot "A room in Cuenca" - so much have rented in the capital of province Castilian Romanchega rents? - and, this is where the lyrical touch comes, "an unattainable calm."

No one would have imagined that a Google search could yield such a suggestive and philosophical concept. Perhaps we have become accustomed to underestimating our fellow human beings. Perhaps it happens that one of the secrets of this world full of narcissists and beggars for the attention of others is the need to get rid of the stress and anguish caused by this continuous demand to be seen and recognized. Many wish to replace permanent activity, in order to be looked upon, envied and valued by others, by a conformity with oneself that is already seen as unaffordable.

If you dig a little more, discover that the phrase is part of the lyrics of a hip-hop song published eleven years ago. That may partly explain the frequency of the search, but does not deprive it of its symptomatic nature . Why do you keep searching for that phrase so much, so many years after the marras song was released, and when the success of a creation is becoming more fragile and less lasting, be it of the genre that it is?

These are the same days when, with the reservations imposed by the result of an autopsy that is inconclusive and has not been made public in detail, someone who knew the spectacular glory coupled with planetary sporting triumphs has been lost and died. , alone, on the mountain of his childhood . Those who make cash with these things have speculated until nausea, with the imputer and inhumanity they accustom, about whether or not it was suicide, and about the problems of all kinds that dragged the deceased, whose biography has been presented in a hasty manner and merciless as an antecedent summary of its end.

The morbid detail of how a death arrives does not matter, when in the life thus concluded that search for an unattainable calm is intuited. The calm that perhaps he did not find, among other reasons, for being under the spotlight from too early.

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