When I learned about the Supreme's unanimous commitment to the power of fiction, I remembered Hannah Arendt's description of the ideal subject of a totalitarian regime : "It is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, between true and false, no longer exists. " Banal subjects, drunk with emotions and full of reason whose own unconsciousness is the oil that greases the machinery of evil. They are robotic operators in the assembly line of their canned republic, and cannot lift their heads from the merchandise they handle and with which they have been trading for years. But when the machinery of lies stops, let's say that when you run into the law, the most naive subjects - who are always the most violent - accuse the blow against the principle of reality. Every wound serves to gain awareness, in this case that of having been deceived. And then they start to look guilty, unable by their own banality to recognize themselves as the stupid ones necessary for the success of any scam. And there we have them, becoming aware in the streets in their own way, which is the primitive way of the newly separated species of the monkey: discovering fire.

That is why it is infamous to compare the riots in Catalonia with those in Hong Kong. In this democratic corner of the Mediterranean, totalitarian subjects who ignore that they are struggle to destroy a pluralistic system to establish an identity monoculture . In that authoritarian corner of the Pacific, jealous subjects of their freedoms fight to keep them against the advance of a single party regime. But this being so, the Catalan branch of the PSOE still shifts between pluralism and nationalism, between freedom and identity, between Spain and China. It is the same party that would call the Hong Kong Democrats as a cyclone as it does with Citizens, which had to be founded to protect the right to the existence in Catalonia of Spanish Catalans betrayed by the PSC.

In the light of Arendt, Marchena's sentence receives an unsuspected shine : it diagnoses all who swallowed the decoy as useful fools of a tyranny. A yellowish totalitarianism for the mentally weak who confused propaganda with reality. The problem is that this hallucination dominates Nietzschean politics at a time when there are no facts but interpretations. And it forces us to conclude that we are surrounded by guilty dreamers who are dying to submit to a new master because they do not know how to govern themselves.

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